Thursday, April 17, 2008

A letter to Pennsylvania

Dear citizens of Pennsylvania,

Most of the country has already voted in this insane primary season, but you have a chance to do something that no other state could do. You have a chance to end this thing.

I know some of you who are supporting Hillary Clinton intend to vote for her because you think you can actually revive her campaign. You think you can make history for your state by bringing the zombied corpse of her candidacy back from the dead but you would be wrong.

Hillary's campaign has been dead for quite some time now, as evidenced by the smell of decay that accompanies its hideous tactics, but it has been continuing on, pretending to be human, like the living dead in those B movies from the fifties.

I know you have problems with Barack Obama. He doesn't wear a flag pin (of course, neither does she), and he said you were bitter (and she says you are happy without jobs, money and homes). He goes to church on Sundays and hears a pastor, like all good prophets, hold the nation accountable, and doesn't get up and leave in indignation (Hillary doesn't go to church on Sundays). He made 4 million dollars last year, mostly from book sales, and that makes him an elitist. (Hillary Clinton made over 100 million dollars in the last eight years and that means she's just plain folks.)

Hillary Clinton is not going to win this nomination no matter what she, her campaign, and the establishment (who love her) try to do.

This time, the grass roots movement that tried in 2004 to nominate Howard Dean is going to nominate Barack Obama.

This time, the rest of the nation is rejecting the Republican swift boat tactics that Hillary Clinton has adopted over the past few months.

This time, the people care more about real issues than about nonsensical and media-manufactured controversies. That is why so many booed the debate moderators last night who spent 50 minutes playing gotcha, and why ABC had to stop answering the phones and shut down the comments section on their website because people were crashing the systems with angry responses to the fiasco.

So now it's up to you Pennsylvania. You can stop this destruction derby next Tuesday by voting overwhelmingly for Obama, who will eventually win the nomination no matter what you do, but who will be damaged in the fall if the Clinton campaign keeps up their ugliness in their desperate attempt to prove she is still viable. By burying the rotting corpse of the Clinton campaign you can stop this self-inflicted destruction of the Party and help defeat John McCain in November.

You can be heroes. You have a chance this year to give a big middle finger to the mainstream media, the corporations, the insiders, the filthy rich, and the Republicans who are laughing their behinds off as Hillary Clinton does their dirty work for them.

You can do it by giving Obama a victory and letting Clinton exit more gracefully than she would otherwise do. You can save her from herself and her campaign and her self-destructive husband. You can help her face the reality that she seems unwilling to face. You can help her let go of a rotting campaign and the smell of desperation. You can help restore her dignity. You can save the Party. You can help us win in November. You can save the country from John McCain and four more years of hell.

It's up to you.