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Now an endorsement is probably only as good as your influence on others. For the presidential race of 2008, Barack Obama and more importantly the Democratic Party has taken a lot of guff over what’s going on with the primary elections. Yes, there are two awesome candidates: Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton. With the popular vote going to Clinton, the overall delegate count (including superdelegates) went to Obama and he secured the nomination.

First of all, why do we need to go into a delegate system where you’re awarded a specific number based on the proportion of votes? That only went to screw the Democrats even further in the general election. What the hell did it do to “unite” the party?

But let’s get back to the whole issue about endorsements for a second. There is a lot of things being said about how Clinton supporters will vote for McCain because their candidate didn’t win and how not all the votes were counted. Now wait a second, ALL votes were counted, but not equally. Why? Well that’s because a couple of rouge states in the primary elections decided to violate party rules and held their primaries early. Both Obama and Clinton announced they would not campaign there, but Clinton still had her name on the ballot. Now that she was losing the race, her supporters (NOT Clinton) were up in arms about it. Are these people seriously listening to themselves? They’re basically saying “Yes, we violated the party RULES and knowingly held our primary early and cast our vote and now we think the penalty not to have our delegates seated at the National Convention is unfair.”

WHAT?

You can’t have it both ways just to suit your needs. Yes, the Democratic party does need your votes, but let’s be reasonable. If you’re upset about it, then you should have talked to your state party leaders and convinced them not to schedule the primary election that early. That’s just disrespectful to the democratic system. Now that the DNC had finally resolved this mess, you’re still bitching about it? Well stop…it’s over!

Sure, vote for whoever you want, but let’s not vote based on who won your primary and you don’t like that party’s eventual nominee. If you’re going to vote for McCain because Clinton got screwed, then perhaps you were never really a Democrat to begin with. You’re a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Now go join the Republicans and be just like Joe Lieberman.

But if you care about how the system will be run for the next four years, then get on board and support the party’s nominee. It’s not about the PERSON that’s running, but their policies and how they’re going to shape our nation. So get over your petty issues and grow up.

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