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Editorial
For the Dems sake and to ensure victory in November, Clinton should withdraw
Presidential Candidate Senator Hillary Clinton won the West Virginia Primary Tuesday by a comfortable margin (receiving 67% of the votes) and urged Democratic Party officials to take the results under strong consideration before they discount her as a serious contender for the Democratic nomination.
But Clinton has already been discounted, and has been for quite some time. Senator Barack Obama is close to garnering the necessary 2,026 delegates needed to give him the presidential nomination of his party and challenge the presumptive Republican nominee Senator John McCain.
Plus despite the loss in West Virginia, Obama still picked up three superdelegates to Clinton’s one.
For the good of the Democratic Party and to strengthen the party’s chances of capturing the White House and more seats in Congress, we urge Senator Clinton to end her quest for the Democratic nomination and urge her supporters and acquired delegates to swing their full and unwavering support to Obama.
If she doesn’t--and given her comments after her win in West Virginia she plans to take the fight all the way to the convention in Denver--it very well may irrevocably damage the Democratic Party to the point it will not heal in time to close and reinforce its ranks and focus on defeating McCain.
The country does not want four more years of President Bush via McCain who promises to continue the Bush agenda of war and bad foreign and domestic policies.
Clinton’s campaign staff must urge the senator to end her campaign now and get behind Obama so the party can focus on the real task at hand: attaining the White House.
To do anything but is to invite disaster in Denver and in November, not to mention destroy whatever positive legacy she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton still have left that hasn’t been chewed to tatters by their use of the race card in trying to defeat Obama.
What could have been a "dream" ticket with either at the top has become a "steam" ticket with loads of frustration with unbridled zeal and "power at all costs."
It’s not too late. We urge the senator from New York to do the right thing and end her campaign ... NOW!
