The Mad Rants of an Unconventional Soccer Mom

I’ve been writing very little lately because I’ve been so angered at how the primaries have been playing out, and I felt that I was just beating a dead horse with my complaints. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not angry that they are still going on. I’m angry that Clinton has decided that she would rather stay in and tear the party apart by playing victim, then focusing on defeating McCain. In the last few weeks she and her surrogates have blamed her fall on misogyny, bribed super delegates, and threatened to leadership that if Clinton was not the nominee they would take their money and leave the party.

Let them. After the unforgivable thing she said yesterday, she needs to be thrown out of the party and she can take all of her corrupt, old establishment with her. This is about a new time in our history. What she said should be the final nail in her coffin. And she of all people should have known better.

Death threats came early to Obama judging by how early the Secret Service stepped in to try to protect him. I suspect, the death threats come in greater numbers for him than any Presidential candidate before him. And yet, he still stands before us. He stands before us with his family by his side. Think about that.

Think about what it would take for any of us here to believe so strongly in the need to change our country that we could handle constant death threats. That we could handle the danger inherent in our campaign not just to our spouse, but to our children?

Think about Wing-Nut radio show hosts who feel free to joke about the possibility of him being assassinated. And the good Rev. Mike Huckabee? Didn’t he joke just last week about someone shooting at Obama? How funny, right!?! Apparently, it's still OK in this country to many people to joke about shooting and killing a black man – even if he is probably the next president.
And yet, Obama stands before us, offering himself to us. He does it in venues of 15,000, 30,000, 50,000, 75,000 people. Do you think all of them have gone through metal detectors? We've seen reports of the Secret Service getting a certain percentage of people close to the stage through screening with metal detectors, but no way can they get everybody through. And yet, he stands before us, an act of courage day after day.

While he stood before crowds of people yesterday talking about change and making our country better, Clinton was talking about her political gain through the possibility of his assassination.
To take jokes from Republicans and wing-nut radio hosts is one thing, but to take it from a Democrat is something else. And to take it from a person claiming to be fit to be President, is something else entirely. All I can say is that she is shockingly despicable.
Don’t you think that she should know better then anyone else what it is like to protect your family against all the wing-nuts? All the threats?

Yes, she knows what it's like to need the kind of protection Obama has - for her daughter to need it and her husband to need it. And don’t you think it has to be even worse for Obama, a black man who dares to think he can break through hundreds of years of racism in this country and be President?

It is unforgivable. And don’t let her brush it off as some kind of mistake when she spoke. It wasn’t the first time she used the assassination of Bobby either. Here she is in a Time interview two months ago:

TIME: Can you envision a point at which--if the race stays this close--Democratic Party elders would step in and say, "This is now hurting the party and whoever will be the nominee in the fall"?

CLINTON: No, I really can't. I think people have short memories. Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn't wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June. Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual.

So it has nothing to do with the excuse she gave that the Kennedy’s were on her mind this week because of Teddy’s terminal cancer diagnoses. This is a tactic of hers. What a shameless, horrible person she is. She is not fit to be president.