I've been having a conversation with a Clinton supporter here on Myspace and I got a message yesterday. Understandably, this person was in a celebratory mood, and who am I to deny anyone a good time, but I had to get this off of my chest. I thought I would post it here because I think there are some of us in the Obama camp who need to be reminded why we are who we are and perhaps get back to the truth. I've pasted together a couple of messages together here and made a couple of edits, but this is 95% of what I had to say:


I wonder what there is for her campaign to celebrate. That fear beat hope today? That lies trump truth?

In the end we are still ahead in the delegate count. She needed to win these states by 60% or more. 2 weeks ago she was ahead by as much as 20 points in both Ohio and Texas.

We still believe you win elections by being positive. If she wants to win by taking this to the gutter, she can have it, but thats not what we think our party should be about. We would rather he lost and stayed above the fray than win by meeting her where she is. Its also about how you win and what you believe in and we think that becomes more clear as the days pass. If she wins, she wins by scaring the country and not lifting it up.

I need to believe that we all lose when it goes negative. But I still believe we will win in the end, and then all of us win, the whole country.

This isn't "polly anna" stuff. This is what we need. Do you think its an accident that people are cynical about the political process? Do you think its an accident that people don't think that nothing ever changes? Why do you think that is? Its because politics and politicians continue to play on the fears of the electorate. Its because they are told over and over that its the only way things will ever be.

This is exactly the attitude that will tear this country apart. This is a struggle for a definition of what we believe in. Do we believe in a politics that has to be fought in the mud, in which we tear eachother apart? If that is who we believe we are than what is the point of political parties? If we are going to fight the dirty politics of Karl Rove than why don't we just call ourselves Republicans? I'm exhausted of believing that this country isn't better than this kind of politics. Here we have someone who is appealing to the, as Abraham Lincoln put it, "the better angels of our nature" and she mocks him and laughs at it. Is that the kind of "leadership" we want? When we stop being enemies to eachother, maybe, just maybe, we can actually work together and get the real work done. He is playing to win, but he's playing with his head held high, so that in the end, we can all win.

Maybe the press has given him a "free ride" because there is nothing to ride him on. Have you ever thought of that? So, now she has whined about it and they have made mountains out of mole hills to appease her.

And as far as being outspent 2 to 1 she came into this campaign with an incredible amount of name recognition and he's had to outspend her in order to introduce himself to an electorate that didn't know who he was. If you remember she was supposed to have this locked up by February 5th based on that alone.

And as far as his waiting for more experience, it reminds me of a question James Baldwin asked of the America people during the civil rights movement, "How long am I supposed to wait for your progress?"

We are the change we have been waiting for.