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I sometimes bang my head against the wall thinking about this whole election where the Dems have had an opportunity to get who they "really want" in moreso than perhaps in my lifetime, with the Republicans on life support in terms of public support.
I bang my head how we've been pushed into so many corners not getting what I feel are really grass roots issues and candidates heard in this election. Edwards leaving the race unceremoniously before the first super tuesday really frustrated me, and had me wonder who behind the scenes pushed him out, because I really don't believe he came to that decision by himself.
I now wonder if those same interests that pushed him out that likely felt his candidacy, one way or the other (winning or being a convention power broker) was going to hurt them, are actually PUSHING Hillary Clinton to stay in the race until the bitter end (with the emphasis on "bitter").
I wonder if Hillary behind closed doors has wondered if she should pull out gracefully and do the honorable thing to help the party, but is being told by her contributors and other "bosses" that she should stay in.
For her, I have to believe if she goes on much farther the potential damage to her political life could far outweigh the benefits she MIGHT get from some very remote possibility that she can win this thing "honorably" and in a democratic fashion.
On the other hand, the corporate interests I believe LOVE her prolonged campaign. They do because:
1) It has her and Barack pound each other, increasing both of their negatives, so that from their point of view McCain has a better shot at winning in the general election and serve their wishes in their best outcome. 2) Perhaps Hillary can win if she stays in, and that makes the general election a lot less concern to them, since even if she wins over McCain, she's a lot more friendly to their concerns than Obama is likely to be. 3) All of these nit picking personal backstabbing back and forth generates far more attention than any of the other far more important stories of our economy going into the crapper, or other things our country is doing that needs more accountability and scrutiny that the corporate media is avoiding. They feel they can take a holiday from true news reporting if the public accepts the tabloid coverage of this election as the only "news" they want to be occupied with. 4) the media companies love it, because the more this continues in primary season, the greater amounts of ad buys they get, and in effect get a lot of their "bribe" money back from the candidates. 5) the parties and candidates themselves will take all of the blame for this personal "war", and not them, even if they are the ones behind this "push" of keeping her in the race.
I'm guessing we won't hear about this if its really happening. At least not for many years, and hopefully at a time we have public campaign financing and the corporatocracy more on a leash then and not running our lives like they do now.
But I still wonder if this might be happening. Might help me to respect Clinton as a person more, if I knew perhaps some of the pressures she's under if she's inclined to do the right thing, but perhaps still not respect her a lot for not doing the RIGHT thing by ending it, and instead listening to these corporate whores (and I do believe the corporate lobbyists deserve to be called whores far more than anyone else) too much and not calling them out when they go too far.
If it is happening Hillary, PLEASE MAKE IT STOP! For the party's sake, for all of our sake, for your sake! We need to fix this corporatocracy now!
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