LA Times: Delegate battle grows nastier and further: "Booing, shoving and charges of deception mar district meetings in Texas as Clinton and Obama backers clash."
The language on the internet version is toned down, but the gist is the same.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-dems30mar30,0,4277084.storyFellow Democrats, it is time to take a deep breath, meditate, look around at our world and refocus.
Our country is in the worst trouble since WWII: our dollar, our wages and our respect in the world are in decline. And we are mired in two seemingly endless wars that are depleting our treasury and bringing us nothing.
To deal with this catastrophe, the Republican Party offers John McCain.
What's the matter with John McCain? First, he is inept. Second, his character and demeanor are questionable.
His ineptitude: John McCain admits to being economically illiterate.
And although the son and grandson of admirals, he failed at war. He crashed five Navy planes and ended up in a North Vietnamese prison camp where he was tortured into betraying the United States. John McCain flew and fell. OK, let's say that makes him a hero. But, a lot of guys flew and came back. Many of them were injured, but they did not fall. Was he careless or just unlucky? Do we really want another man with that kind of ineptitude or bad luck to be our president? I don't.
His demeanor: John McCain lacks dignity. Remember that picture of him hugging George W. Bush? Does that look presidential? I don't think so. And then there is the bomb-bomb-bomb-Iran ditty. Please.
Further, John McCain has poor self-control. He is prone to my way or the highway temper tantrums. Just recently we saw him upbraid a member of the press for asking a perfectly legitimate question. Do we want this man's finger on the nuclear trigger?
His character: John McCain is a man of expediency, not principle. It would be hard to think of a single principle that this man has ever stood for to the end. He spoke up for campaign finance reform. In fact, he and John Kerry put together compromise legislation to clean up campaign funding. He even pledged to limit himself to public financing in his current campaign. But when the big bucks started rolling in, he yielded to temptation.
Then there is the issue of torture: himself a victim of it, for most of his political career, he was its reliable critic. But, when it came to bucking his party to vote against torture, he chose political advantage over principle. Do we want a president with so little courage?
And here's the kicker for us female voters: He discarded his wife and the mother of his children after she suffered serious injuries in an accident. Why? So that he could have a fit and picture-pretty young woman by his side. McCain ascribes his lack of marital fidelity to the changes that he and his wife went through while he was in Viet Nam. I think that America's women can judge McCain on that one for ourselves.
And that brings us back to the Democratic Party. As a Democrat what is important to us? Is it beating Hillary/Obama? Or beating McCain?
As today's LA Times headline shows, the fight to the finish mentality in the Obama/Hillary camps is making our party look childish and distracting from the real issues. The squabble within the Party is the headline, not what we offer our country. And it is your fault, folks. You are making us look like the party of unreason. You are making McCain's temper tantrums look mature.
Please stop now. Grow up. Let's face it. You are hurting your own candidate with the constant tearing down of the other candidate.
I remind you. Take those deep breaths. Because if you don't stop the fighting, neither Obama nor Hillary will be the president. And, after all, that is what this is about: the presidency, not just the nomination.
Finally, please remember that there are several potential nominees out there just as good as yours. And the rational members of the Party just may compromise and go for one of them if you guys keep this up.
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