Post #152

Subject: Quit, Obama, Quit

Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean said Monday that Barack Obama must drop out of the Democratic presidential race after the June primaries in order to unify the party by the convention and win the election in November. ”We want the voters to have their say. That's over on June 3," Dean said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Oh, wait – Dean really said that either Hillary Clinton or Obama must quit after the primaries.

Dean also said that while the party rules say Democratic superdelegates can wait until the party's August 25 convention to make up their minds, that would be too late to unify the party and defeat the presumptive Republican nominee, John McCain. "We really can't have a divided convention. If we do it's going to be very hard to heal the party afterwards," Dean said. "So we'll know who the nominee is and that'll give us an extra 2 1/2 months to get our party together, heal the wounds of having a very closely divided race and take on Senator McCain."

There’ll be no division – Obama will do the right thing and quit. There are nine primaries left, and Clinton leads the popular vote. Who is prepared to make Clinton “the Al Gore of ’08” and steal this election?

Let’s suppose Obama whines about Michigan. I say let’s have a one-day national primary, a re-vote. I wonder how many votes would switch today. And, Goodness, have a state-by-state, winner-take-all count that mimics the November election.

This is where the superdelegates come in. It is their responsibility to dismiss a candidate who has fatally wounded himself. The only division will come from Obama’s ego if he refuses to read the handwriting on the wall.

Clinton leads McCain by 9 in a poll released today while Obama and McCain were tied. Save us, superdelegates!