What Have We Learned?
Indiana and North Carolina, the largest cache of delegates before the convention in Denver, finished their voting process. What have we learned? Nothing. Nothing will be decided. Both candidates will have more votes and more delegates. Neither will drop out of the race. And so it goes.
I have been trying to look for a silver lining in all of this because every time a candidate blows their nose, it is reported as news. The real crime is that although we have had enough time for the news to completely cover each candidate’s position on real issues but they haven’t finished reporting. We should be able to recite Senator Barack Obama’s and Senator Hilary Clinton’s economic policies by heart by now.
Anyway, I think that I have found that silver lining. Obama is going to be a better candidate because of Clinton. There will be less gaffes. There will be more of the message and less of the garbage. This is really very important because Senator John McCain seems to get good coverage even when he is stumbling all over himself.
Also, this is energizing the Democratic party everywhere. States that had poor organizations will benefit from this tough primary season. The Democrats in each state will be ready to roll…after the healing. After the disappointment, most Democrats will shake off their candidate’s loss and embrace the nominee. It isn’t that we want to, we have to. If we want to take back our country, we have to forgive and embrace knowing that we have another fight that will be harder than the one before. The next fight is for the White House and we have win that fight.
So, we will continue to fight on. I hope that my “theory” is correct. If it isn’t correct, then what was the point of all this?
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