We have a decision to make as a party. Are we going to worry about the people who say they will refuse to vote for Senator Obama when he is the Nominee, or are we going to move forward.
That's the very real question we are facing here. Watch this video and listen to these people and their reasons on why they would not vote for Senator Obama in the Fall.
These are supposedly 'good Democrats', most of them have Hillary buttons on and have never voted for a Republican.
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Who is to blame for these people and their refusal to vote for a Black man? Even though I think the Clinton campaign has stoked this fire, the fire was there long before she was a candidate and I don't know if there is anything she can do or say to change the minds of people who think like them.
Don't get me wrong. I know there are a lot of good people all over West Virginia and throughout Appalachia. Great people, in fact. But that's not the question. The question is, are we going to allow the people in this video, and those that think like them, decide on who our Nominee is based on racism?
Or are we going to reach our hands out to these people.
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I know most Hillary supporters, the vast majority of Hillary supporters, do not want racism to be in the Democratic Party. I was naive enough to believe that the people like those in the video had left the Democratic Party a long time ago, in what is referred to as the old Dixie-Crats.
I see that I was wrong. We cannot win over the vast majority of the people who think like this. I don't even think most of them would vote for Senator Clinton is she had Senator Obama as her VP. Which she would most certainly have to do if she somehow got the super delegates to suddenly swarm to her side. Which, let's face it, isn't even a remote chance at this point.
So...are we going to let sites like NoQuarter continue there verbal assassination of Senator Obama, a site so laden with racist hate speech that it makes even the conservative blogs cringe?
These are people who call themselves Democrats, and even some that claim the title of progressive Democrat.
This election will change the Party, and even DailyKos and other progressive blogs. We have to make a choice on the direction of our Party and our progressive agenda. I say let us cast aside the people over at NoQuarter, and not worry about the people in the above video. They can choose whom they vote for.
Instead, let's reach out to the suburban Republicans and Independents in the Mid-West, the rural voters Mountain West and the ripe for the taking whole South-West. Let's expand the map and include new Democrats and not worry about the so-called 'blue collar whites' in Appalachia. We will fight for them when we take control of the White House and Congress, but we will not let racism and ignorance dictate our future.
I know there are a lot of passionate Clinton supporters that are still hanging onto hope that she can win the Nomination. To them I say, take all the time you need. I understand what it's like to have your Nominee not make the cut. And I know the reasons you support Hillary have nothing to do with racism.
But I also say that we should not let the voters like the ones in that video dictate to us whom we choose. I'm sick of hearing about that as a reason to not Nominate Senator Obama.