Yes, indeedie she has. As I read Peggy Noonan's column today, I was reflecting on the past few weeks and while we are all waiting for the Super Delegates and party elders to stop this train wreak, I keep wondering where the hell are these people? According to Peggy, they are in the bar, hiding.
They are in a Democratic club on Capitol Hill, slump-shouldered at the bar, having a drink and then two, in a state of what might be called depressed horror. "What are they doing to the party?" they wail. "Why are they doing this?"
So, as we watch in horror at the Democratic Party Leaders apparently having a nervous breakdown, I keep shaking my head in amazement. This is our election to lose. We hold all the cards in the deck this time around and I'm wondering, what is it going to take to stop Hilary Clinton from destroying the Democratic Party?
As Peggy said:
To play the race card as Mrs. Clinton has, to highlight and encourage a sense that we are crudely divided as a nation, to make your argument a brute and cynical "the black guy can't win but the white girl can" is -- well, so vulgar, so cynical, so cold, that once again a Clinton is making us turn off the television in case the children walk by.
Yeah...that's about it: So vulgar, so cynical, so cold. Wow. This is a train that will, without a doubt keep going until it is stopped. And who, will be held responsible? Week after week, the cowardly Super Delegates sit on the side lines biting their nails as we watch HRC destroy Barack Obama and our party.
The question "Who will tell her, who can make her go?" is really the question "Who will save the Democratic Party in 2008?" It cannot be doubted at this point that real damage is being done to its standard-bearer and to all those who will be on the ticket with him.
I would really like to know exactly, what will it take for the Super Delegates (you know, the 50 or so that were suppose to have come together and fully endorse Barack Obama weeks ago) to come forward? What will it take? Everyday that goes by, is another day that Hilary Clinton and the former President of this country, Bill Clinton are systematically tearing our party apart by one of it's primary core beliefs, that we, the Democratic Party are the party of inclusion. That we, as Democrats do not believe there is any room what so ever, in this party for racists, or politics that divide us.
It's not math anymore, it's psychodrama. If she can't have it, no one can have it. If she has to tear the party apart, she will.
I don't understand how much clearer Senator Clinton can make it. She has decided and told everyone, exactly what she intends to do. So I think we are well past the stage of sitting and waiting for her to bow out gracefully. At this point she is simply blackmailing the Democratic party and causing mayhem. The Super Delegates are now being threatened with emails by her supporters. This is insane. This is unacceptable behavior. This is enough for god's sake.
Get out of the bar Super Delegates, stop hiding. You are complicit if you don't stand up and show some courage now. Will you be ready in a month or so, when Hilary and Bill have moved our party into full fledged Civil War? Will that help you decide? Unfortunately it may be too late then.
What will it take?