My Note to HillaryClinton.com Following Sen. Obama's Nomination

On Tuesday night, I watched the post-primary speeches of Sen.'s Obama, Clinton & McCain following the South Dakota and Montana Democratic primary contests in which Senator Obama passed the milestone in delegate endorsements to become the presumptive nominees for Democratic party presidential candidate. While watching Clinton's speech, I was intrigued by what I saw, so when she said, "Go to HillaryClinton.com and leave me your suggestions" after stating that she would not be making any decisions last night, I decided to do just that. So I wrote the following in a letter I posted to her site. Let me know what you think! KH

"Good afternoon, Hon. Senator Clinton! I do start by congratulating you on a spirited Democratic primary run which has inspired women and my daughters that they still can break the biggest glass ceiling of all. The competition between yours and Sen. Obama's campaign represents many positive firsts, and lets everyone know that you don't have to be a "good old boy" or a white male to run for a major party nomination.

I am however ashamed of several things, one of them being that [campaign chairman Terry] McAuliffe introduced you as "the next President of the US" at last night's rally. How disengenuous is that when everyone else in the country knows that Obama had gained well over the 2,118 delegates needed to secure the nomination? I watched your speech and while I applaud your followers, it showed poor sport for you to not once congratulate Sen Obama on having won the nomination, when he was gracious enough to speak well of you during his victory speech in MN. Often in this campaign your staff seems to operate in denial of the most obvious facts of this Democratic contest often relying on misstatements to polarize Clinton voters against Obama's campaign. (The "Sen Clinton has won more states, popular vote, and delegates" is one of the most obvious misstatements meant to confuse those who don't know any better b/c they don't bother to do research for themselves.) Obviously if this were true, YOU would be now the nominee instead of Obama, right?

I ask you as a former resident of Arkansas while Pres. Clinton was Governor, an under-30 Black male, college educated, lifetime Democrat and voter that for the sake of party unity, the opportunity to take back the White House from one of the most corrupt and shameful presidents in history, nominate the next Supreme Court Justices, bring home the troops, revive the economy, etc that you throw your full support and encourage your "18M+ voters" to do the same for Obama to ensure this [next] President is a Democrat. Whether he offers you the VP spot or not after you stated in the campaign that Obama has not crossed the "threshold" necessary to be C-in-C is not even an issue. This presidential contest is so much bigger than you or Obama, and if you and Pres. Bill Clinton can throw your support fully behind Obama to ensure that he wins, then those of us who are all on the same side will see you as a true winner and not a sore loser. Thank you, Kéto Hodges"