Democratic Nomination

As I am watching the Democratic Nomination race on television, I can't helped to be annoyed by Hilary Clinton's tactics at the moment. It is obvious that Clinton was not willing to step out of the race after it was apparent that she would not win the party's nomination. Now even with Obama with only seven delegates to go, and 4 hours, 54minutes, and 30seconds and counting Clinton is still not wanting to end the race.

When will be the proper time for her to concede and make sure that a republican will not enter into the office in November. All that she has done so far is to divide the party along the lines of who is a better candidate for running for office. It is apparent that the people and the super-delegates have chosen the best candidate.

Now, even with Obama making history on so many levels within the United States, there is still so much division, so much so that if Clinton drops out, that will make all the Clinton supporters will not support Obama. Therefore by not voting or not showing up to vote for Obama in November, the republicans by default, will win.

Now there has been a hint that Clinton wants to be Obama's running mate. Earlier on in the race, Clinton said that she was not running for the office of vice president. Now at the end of the race, she feels that she has earned a spot as Obama's running mate. What in the world. You don't hear any of the republican candidates running suggest that they earned the vice president spot with McCain.

So even with Obama winning the party's nomination, there will not be much celebration because Clinton plans to take some of that spotlight in her concession as well as her bid for vice president. Seems like this leads Obama between a rock and a hard place; don't choose Clinton and risk losing in November because of a party division, race division, sex division, and any other type of divisions thought possible; or choose Clinton and have his role in the white house viewed upon as a puppet hanging on the strings of the Clinton's. I'm sure this will be a hard decision and I'm sure that all possibilities have been carefully thought out.

History made and overshadowed if there happens to be an Obama/Clinton ticket but die-hard Clinton supporters think that it was only women that helped people of color obtain the rights that they have today. That's hard to swallow when White's looked to people of color for support, labor, etc.

In all honesty I think that people need to get off their high horses and let history take its place, and let change occur, we will all be better off than we have been in the last eight years. We can only go uphill from here.