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Week of May 25, 2008 - May 31, 2008

Donna Brazile: Democrats Must Lay Down Their Arms


Quite an interesting piece from Donna Brazile...

The end of the Democratic primary season is within sight. With three primaries remaining in Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota, the race between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will be decided by which candidate has won the majority of delegates to the Democratic convention. Perhaps those voters in Michigan and Florida, if the party's rule committee can come up with a fair solution, might have some representatives attend the party's convention in Denver. So where do the Democrats go from here?

Clinton has shown she's no quitter and will fight for every last pledged delegate and any superdelegates who are uncommitted. Since 2001, women like me have lived with the prospect that Clinton might one day seek the presidency. Given her name recognition, intelligence, ability to raise money and the party's hunger to win back the White House, many of us waited with bated breath for the last, highest and seemingly unreachable stained-glass ceiling in politics to be shattered. She may not break it, but some of us see the cracks.

Throughout this long and drawn-out campaign season, I have not wasted any opportunity to advocate for Clinton to be given every chance to achieve her goal. I never counted her out, but after June 3, I will count the delegates to see who is ahead and by how much.

There are some media reports suggesting that Clinton is now willing to extend the primary fight beyond the last set of primaries. That's just awful. No matter on which side of the fence Democratic primary voters have decided to stand, a convention battle is not in the party's best interests. Read more here.
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