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A Pox On Both Their Houses
Or It Is Time For Gore by James Glaser March 25, 2008 I have a good friend who is an out-and-out Barack Obama supporter. What I should say, is that he was a Barack Obama supporter. Yesterday, he stopped in and told me he had had it with the Democrats. In his way of thinking, neither Obama nor Clinton can keep their staff in line, and if they can't control their own staff, how will they be able to run America. I have been thinking this for months, if the two Democrat front runners can't work together, how the heck are they ever going to work with Republicans if they do get elected. The two of them can't even work with fellow Democrats. It is a shame for the Republicans that they have such a poor candidate in John McCain, as the media would love to hear from him if he had something intelligent to say. This weekend McCain was running around the country talking about how well things are going in Iraq, just as the number of American deaths climbed to 4,000, and violence there is spiking. John McCain still hasn't figured that the vast majority of Americans want us out of Iraq. What McCain needs to come up with is a plan to work on health care, and he has to talk about what he will do to help the economy and middle class wages. If McCain thinks he is going to win this election because of his backing of Bush's war policy, he is sadly mistaken. The only reason he is doing anything in the polls right now, is that the two Democrats are having a "donnybrook" of a campaign against each other. Some people (the Obama people) want Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, and Nancy Pelosi to tell Hillary it is time for her to step aside for the good of the party, but Hillary is not the type to stand down for anyone. Hillary is going to take her campaign to the bitter end, and she still thinks she can win. After the last few weeks talk of a "Dream Team," Hillary and Barack or Barack and Hillary is a thing of the past. These two just do not like each other, and too much bad blood has been spilt to ever think about patching things up. Many Barack supporters have come out to say they will not vote for Clinton if she wins the nomination, and many Clinton supporters feel the same way if Barack gets the nod. It looks like neither one will get enough delegates to win hands down, and no matter how the so called Super Delegates vote, there are going to be sore losers. So, what do you think happens if Al Gore steps into the ring at the Democratic Convention and says, "I can pull this party together. I haven't made bad remarks about either candidate, and beside that, I won an Emmy, The Nobel Peace Prize, and an Academy Award in 2007, so you might say I'm on a roll." I think the place would throw Barack and Hillary out the door, and Al Gore would beat McCain by about 5 million votes, more than enough to override what ever the Republican election machine tried in Ohio or Florida. With either Hillary or Barack at the head of the Democrat ticket, John McCain has a good shot at becoming President. Knowing the history of the Democratic Party, I doubt they will even give Gore a chance to speak before deciding who will be running. I think they are afraid he might just make the convention come alive, and nobody in the Clinton or the Obama camp is willing to chance that. I'm not saying Al Gore would make a great President, but Al Gore could unite the Democrat Party in a year that they should win in a landslide. |
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