Dear Hillary
Dear Hillary:
Please let it go. Eight years ago, you seemed the best choice. Even 4 years ago, you still seemed the best choice. Then an upstart young Senator with the power to unite came along, and made it a real race for the nomination. You had a chance to run, and risk losing, on your merits, but instead you started a smear campaign, and have flooded Democratic debates and the media with your vitriol.
I wanted so much to respect you for running, for being the first woman to make a serious bid for the Presidency. I wanted so much to like you no matter what. But you won’t allow that. See, I am one of those people who believes Obama is the better choice, and to you we don’t matter. You assume that because we would vote Democrat, often against our registered party (as in my case) for Obama, that we will automatically swing our votes to you if you stay in and use the Super Delegates and old party politicking to squeeze him out.
Let me assure right now: that is not the case. Your mud slinging, your inability to build support for your ideas throughout your stay in the Senate, your inability to raise funds, the general negative and desperate tone of the campaign, and the continued attacks on Obama have driven me away from you completely. Should you force Obama out, I won’t be voting at all in November.
That’s right. I have voted in every election, no matter how small and local or how national it was, since I was 18, and you have pushed me to the point where I will stay home if you run. McCain’s supporters must be dancing in the aisles to see your announcement today that in spite of having an underfunded campaign you keep having to resuscitate with your own money, in spite of running against someone who is better suited to what needs to be done in office (change and unity building), you still refuse to concede the nomination.
I am disappointed beyond words in your quest for power. I had high hopes that at the end of the campaign trail, there would be an Obama for President, Clinton for Vice President ticket. I think with you in the Vice President slot and Obama out front uniting people, there would be a chance for real change, but you have blown that with your mud slinging and thinly veiled contempt, which would make it so difficult so work together.
I am disappointed, and sad that you would sacrifice the country for your own ego. What does it say about you, as a person, that John McCain, someone who scares the crap out me as a potential leader, has run a kinder, more issue-focused campaign against your opponent for the nomination than you have? I think it speaks volumes, and that you finally need to look up at the nation and hear what we are trying so hard to tell you: stand down and make room for change. Yes, you can.
Sincerely,
Leslie: Disgruntled Voter
