What’s Up with the Dems?
This has been a real week of turmoil for the Democratic Party!
First things first, Barack Obama won in Mississippi, just like everyone, including Hillary Clinton expected. A few more delegates were decided but the Democrats look like they’re still on the way to a brokered convention. And with six weeks or so to go until the primaries in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, who knows what the heck is going to happen to heap more disaster on the Dems?
For instance, looks like the Democratic governor of New York, the “honorable” Eliot Spitzer, is reaping the results of his pricey habit. After much clamor by his political enemies, Spitzer resigned today. He will be replaced, effective Monday, by Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who becomes New York’s first black governor. He will be the state’s first legally blind governor and its first disabled governor since Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Spitzer was elected after devoting his career to fighting corruption of all kinds, including prostitution. It is sad to see his downfall, and my heart really goes out to both the man and his family. It must be very difficult for the father of three beautiful teenaged daughters to have to face them with this kind of notoriety. And, of course, this has to be terribly painful for Silda, his lovely and accomplished wife of 20 years.
But this isn’t the only controversial issue in the ongoing saga of the Democrats. Now there is a furor over the remarks made by Geraldine Ferraro, former Vice-presidential candidate for the Dems and fervent Clinton supporter. Her allegations that Obama has gotten as far as he has because of his race really created a backlash, if only because she had the nerve to say it out loud and in public.
While Hillary Clinton stated publicly that she didn’t agree with Ferraro’s views, the fact is that African-American Super-Delegates have been quoted in recent weeks in the media saying that they were switching allegiance from Clinton to Obama because of his race and that this was a chance to get an African-American into the White House.
Seems it’s not considered “politically correct” for SOME people to say the same thing that it’s O.K. for OTHER people to say.
All in all, this has been an unsettling week for the Democrats. Wonder what’s next?
Tags: Barack Obama, brokered convention, delegates, Democratic National Convention, Democrats, Geraldine Ferraro, Governor Eliot Spitzer, Hillary Clinton, Lt. Gov. David Paterson, Mississippi primary, New York Governor, North Carolina primary, Pennsylvania primary, political spouses, Presidential primary, prostitution, prostitution sting, White House
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