Is either democratic candidate concerned about the best interest of their party? or are they both more concerned with making history? Clinton as the first woman president, Obama as the first black president. Come on, making the history books is too tempting a lure to just give up 'for the sake of the party!' I don't know why people even suggest it. Hillary Clinton has been dreaming about this opportunity since her college days. Vehemently pushing her husband all the way to the white house through two terms, to make her path to this moment easier. Now pundits want her to give up nearly fifty years of dreaming now that she's so close she can taste it? And who can remember the last time a black person, male or female got this close to the ultimate of all American dreams? Obama's spent millions, and still has millions more in his coffers. He leads in states won, pledged delegates, and popular vote. Why should he step away from his dream. It takes great personal ambition, sacrifice and determination to run for the Oval office, and those who desperately seek it are seldom ever quitters. Usually they stay too long at the dance and must be forced out.
Their battle may be fracturing their party, but I don't think America has changed enough for either of these candidates to have ever had a real chance at defeating John McCain. Hillary is so hated within her own party, if she wins the nomination over a man who beat her in every other necessary category, I think she risks losing disillusioned Obama supporters. And Republicans have burned her in effigy. They would vote in record numbers just to keep her out of office. I bet they would feel the same way about a black president. Obama has a hard time winning over white working class democrats. And overall across party lines, they tend to be die hard voters. Can you win the presidency, if you cannot win them. Race remains a sensitive issue in America, and sometimes I think that's what Hillary means when she says Obama is 'unelectable'. She may be right. But she's just as 'unelectable'. They should consider a joint ticket. But the list of people discounting that option is growing.
In trying to serve their personal ambitions in the quest to make history, Both Clinton and Obama are eroding each other's chances, and ruining their party's hope of ending the Republican Party's hold on the White House.
They may end up making history as the two most exciting candidates to never become President!
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