February 2, 2008

Before You Vote for Hillary Clinton Read This

An Open Letter to Hillary Clinton from Another Wellesley College Alumna

Dear Hillary,

By polling logic, I should be your supporter - Democrat, older woman, white, liberal. I was even in a dorm with you in college. I have pulled for you for years. But something this past summer fundamentally changed my responsibility to my children and grandchildren. In the time I have left in my life to protect them and others, I need to speak out.

I saw a News Hour piece on Maharastra, India, about farmers committing suicide. Monsanto, a US agricultural giant, hired Bollywood actors for ads telling illiterate farmers they could get rich (by their standards) from big yields with Monsanto's Bt (genetically engineered) cotton seeds. The expensive seeds needed expensive fertilizer and pesticides (Monsanto, again) and irrigation. There is no irrigation there. Crops failed. Farmers had larger debt than they'd ever experienced

And farmers couldn't collect seeds from their own fields to try again (true since time immemorial). Monsanto "patents" their DNA-altered seeds as "intellectual property." They have a $10 million budget and a staff of 75 devoted solely to prosecuting farmers. http://www.grist.org/comments/food/2008/01/17./). Since the late 1990s (about when industrial agriculture took hold in India),166,000 Indian farmers have committed suicide and 8 million have left the land.

Farmers in Europe, Asia, Africa, Indonesia,South America, Central America and here, have protested Monsanto and genetic engineering for years.

What does this have to do with you?

You have connections to Monsanto through the Rose Law Firm where you worked and through Bill who hired Monsanto people for central food-related roles. Your Orwellian-named "Rural Americans for Hillary" was planned withTroutman Sanders, Monsanto's lobbyists.

Genetic engineering and industrialized food and animal production all come together at the Rose Law Firm, which represents the world's largest GE corporation (Monsanto), GE's most controversial project (DP&L's - now Monsanto's - terminator genes), the world's largest meat producer (Tyson), the world's largest retailer and a dominant food retailer (Walmart).

The inbred-ness of Rose's legal representation of corporations which own controlling interests in other corporations there and of corporate boards sharing members who are also shareholders of each other's corporations there, is so thorough that it is hard to capture. Jon Jacoby, senior executive of the Stephens Group - one of the largest institutional shareholders of Tyson Foods, Walmart, DP&L - is also Chairman of the Board of DP&L and arranged the Wal-Mart deal. Jackson Stephens' Stephens Group staked Sam Walton and financed Tyson Foods. Monsanto bought DP&L. All represented at Rose.

You didn't just work there, you made friends. That shows in the flow of favors then and since. You were invited onto Walmart's board, you were helped by a Tyson executive to make commodity trades (3 days before Bill became governor), netting you $100,000, Jackson Stephens strongly backed Bill for Governor, and then for President (donating $100,000). http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/engdahl/2006/0828.html

Food and friends, in Clinton terms:

Bill's appointed friend Mike Espy, Secretary of Agriculture, who immediately significantly weakened federal chicken waste and contamination standards, opening the door to major expansion of Tyson's chicken factory farms (www.financialsense.com/ editorials/engdahl/2006/0828.html). Espy resigned, indicted for accepting bribes, illegal contributions, money laundering, illegal dispersal of USDA subsidies, .... Tyson Foods was the largest corporate offender. http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/GMO/Monsanto/monsanto.html

But what Bill did for Monsanto "genetic engineering" goes beyond inadequate concepts of giving corporate friends influence: He unleashed genetic engineering into the world. And then he helped close off people's escape from it.

Genetic engineering is many orders of magnitude different from "normal" (even polluting) business in its potential biologic ramifications. The warning myth of Pandora'a Box - letting irretrievable things rush out into nature - has become real. The harrowing change to the world from nuclear fission and fusion is the closest parallel.

What did Bill do?

1. Bill's put Monsanto people in at the FDA, as US Agricultural Trade Representatives, on International Biotechnology Consultive Forums, and more ... (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/072600-03.htm) or http://www.monitor.net/monitor/9904b/monsantofda.html or http://www.mindfully.org/GE/Revolving-Door.htm

2. Bill's FDA gave Monsanto permission to market rBGH (a GE bovine growth hormone), the first genetically engineered product let loose on us (or did tomatoes with fish DNA get there first?).

3. Despite reports of bovine illness and death, Bill's FDA did not recall it or put warnings on it. Even "a very angry, very vocal nationwide consumer base" had no impact. " http://www.wafreepress.org/14/Envirowatch.html

4. Bill's FDA wouldn't even label rBGH as "present" in milk.

5. When dairy farmers tried to label their own milk rBGH-free so the public could choose, Bill's USDA threatened all dairies that their products could be confiscated from stores. Michael Taylor, USFDA Deputy Commissioner, was formerly Monsanto's counsel.

6. How were consumers to protect their family, given Bill's FDA enforced public blindness, except to buy only organic? But Bill's FDA tried to close off that last escape, proposing to include in "organic" standards, "the dirty three" a : genetic engineering of plants and animals, use of irradiation in food processing and use of municipal sewage sludge as a fertilizer. (My emphasis.) The FDA backed down. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DEED91E31F933A1575AC0A96E958260

Had this gone through, Monsanto could have finally labeled rBGH milk ... as "organic." And animal waste from factory farms, a pollution nightmare for Tyson and others, could have been sold as fertilizer.

USDA head Dan Glickman: "This is probably the largest public response to an [Agriculture Department] rule in modern history." In fact the response was 20 times greater than anything ever before proposed by the USDA. http://www.orpheusweb.co.uk/john.rose/orglab.html

Personally, I resent years of effort to protect my children and now grandchildren, from that crap.

Politically, Bill sided against small farmers and against the public's right to know, and with Monsanto.

A snap shot of our food:

Oils: Sheep died in India after feeding on Bt cotton fields (http://btcotton.blogspot.com/). We feed our children Bt cotton, as cottonseed oil in peanut butter and cookies.

Grains: 49% of US corn acreage was planted in Bt corn in 2007. A French study proved Monsanto's GMO corn causes kidney and liver toxicity (http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_4790.cfm). Soft drinks and candy have highly concentrated Bt corn, in the form of high fructose Bt corn syrup. The US food system depends most on two crops, soy (90% GMO, 90% of traits owned by Monsanto) and corn, the largest crop (60% GMO, nearly 100% Monsanto traits). "[E]ssentially our entire food supply is genetically modified, to the benefit of one company." The Grocery Manufacturers of America in 2000 estimated that 70 percent of US food contains GM traits. http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_9716.cfm

Meat: Steroids bulk up atheletes. Monsanto steroids bulk up animals - more weight, more profit. We feed our children steroids in meats. Is this why our children are fattening, like Hansel and Gretel?

Poultry: Bill's USDA weakened chicken waste and contamination standards and attempted to allow sewage sludge as fertilize crops. I will say more about disease from industrialized poultry farms waste, at the end of this letter.

Milk: Over 30 scientific publications have shown increased levels of IGF-1 in milk with rBGH increases risks of breast cancer by up to seven-fold, also increasing colon and prostate cancers risks. Canada, 29 European nations, Norway, Switzerland, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa ban U.S. rBGH dairy products. Bill's USFDA put no restrictions, no warning labels (not allowing labels at all). (My emphasis.) http://www.sustdev.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2127&Itemid=35

American children eat that food and drink that milk, Hillary. Coincidentally, American children are increasingly fat and sick.

Here, Bill ignored pleas for labeling. Abroad, Bill ignored intense international objections over the same issue - unlabeled US food exports - badly straining trading relations. Monsanto's "good ole boy," he betrayed American families at the deepest levels conceivable - their family's health and their democratic right to know. He betrayed our rural life and American family farmers - backing corporation deceit and control, over honesty and clean farming.

But, HIllary, it is one thing to not label a regular ole food product to sell it, and quite another to sell a suspected-dangerous food product (rBGH), but Bill's administration didn't label (or stop) a well-known, terrifying threat - Mad Cow Disease.

Bill's FDA's August, 1997 regulation permitted "known TSE-positive [Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy] material to be used in pet food, pig, chicken and fish feed," only requiring the label to read "Do not feed to cattle and other ruminants" in the US.

Monsanto added to the problem. "There is evidence that rbST use [Monsanto's GE bovine growth hormone] reduces the useful lifespan of a dairy cow. ... Given that the incubation period for BSE is at least three to five years and perhaps longer, rbST-treated cows could harbor "hidden" BSE. That is, they might be infected but still asymptomatic when sent to slaughter." (My emphasis.) http://www.consumersunion.org/food/bgh-codex.htm

Bill let TSE into our entire food chain. And who owned the feed and slaughter and genetic engineering corporations whch benefitted?

Please, tell me, Hillary, what he could possibly have gotten in friendship or favors, that could ever justify his exposing millions of people to this?

With genetic engineering itself, Bill did something to the whole world, which tried to object. Words are inadequate to express how astoundingly immoral, beyond human bounds and conceit and power, that was.

"Even for the biggest "winners," it is like winning at poker on the Titanic." Jerry Mander: Facing the Rising Tide

He had no right.

Do you hear that?

Bill had sex from Monica Lewinsky. That's "dinky immoral." That's chicken feed immoral - excuse the Tyson pun, excuse the TSE-laced pun. Bill let genetic engineering lose on NATURE itself.

"Our way of life is likely to be more fundamentally transformed in the next several decades than in the previous one thousand years…Tens of thousands of novel transgenic bacteria, viruses, plants and animals could be released into the Earth's ecosystems…Some of those releases, however, could wreak havoc with the planet's biospheres." Jeremy Rifkin, Biotech Century

Bill did this to us, like it was some nothing and he, some big dumb ass Southern boy, just smiling and getting in good with the Big Boys, thinking about as much about the consequences of something this immense and about us human beings out here, as he thought about you, when he was unfaithful with Monica. Just one big fool getting off on the power and used to getting away with things.

Terminator genes, developed by DP&L, a Rose Firm client, prevent seeds from "working" after only one season. Farmers "must" repurchase (patents and suing not certain enough control, it seems). Those "killing" genes pose the apocalyptic risk of breaking out into nature. Natural seeds could fail, too. Nature could fail.

Far-fetched?

GMO fields are already contaminating normal species (http://www.foodfirst.org/pubs/backgrdrs/2002/sp02v8n2.html. Berkeley Professor of Microbiology, Ignacio Chapela, wrote an open letter, warning the Mexican government about just this breaking out phenomenon happening in maize (http://www.slogefree.org/newsletters/News_Item.2004-12-21.4353/).
And it has already happened with weeds - pesticide resistant GMO seeds break lose and weeds become pesticide-resistant Superweeds (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1882-geneticallymodified-superweeds-not-uncommon.html).

But Bill's USDA spokesman, Willard Phelps said the USDA wanted the technology to be ‘widely licensed and made expeditiously available to many seed companies.’
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=ENG20060827&articleId=3082

"Genetic Engineering is often justified as a human technology, one that feeds more people with better food. Nothing could be further from the truth. With very few exceptions, the whole point of genetic engineering is to increase sales of chemicals and bio-engineered products to dependent farmers." David Ehrenfield: Professor of Biology, Rutgers University

Hillary, one third of the world's bee colonies have collapsed. Gone. Farmers in India are killing themselves. Farmers and bees. Since organic farmers in India are fine and organic farmers report no colony collapse, what does these farming catatrophes say about "industrial agriculture"?

Mad Cow Disease is another direct result of industrial agriculture. And now ....

... transnational poultry factories are implicated as the source of bird flu. ... Small scale poultry farms and wild birds seem not to be the problem [just as small farmers are not the issue in Mad Cow Disease], and yet "initiatives are multiplying to ban outdoor poultry, squeeze out small producers and restock farms with genetically modified chickens. ... http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2006/2006-02-27-01.asp "Of the few outbreaks that did occur in [Laos], more than 90% broke out in commercial poultry operations, not free-ranging flocks." http://www.birdflubook.com/a.php?id=75

Monsanto (and others) is currently working with the USDA (http://www.farmandranchguide.com/articles/2006/01/30/ag_news/updates/update01.txt)
to force small farmers to tag every animal with a global tracking device (NAIS - National Animal Identification System). Allegedly related to food safety, Monsanto and others would be creating a vast corporate digital library on every move of small farmers's livestock. http://goexcelglobal.he.net/~natpropg/nonais.html

But small farmers do not create the contaminated environments, do not supply the feed, do not grind up diseased animals into feed (how Mad Cow began) and then sell it. In fact, their farming methods, free range and small scale, are significantly healthier and safer for animals and food than the massive concentration of animals by corporate industrial agriculture.

Monsanto is also aggressively pushing for state laws to limit farmers' right to choose what to plant and the public's right exclude GE plants from their communities http://www.rense.com/general65/righto.htm

Cattle bloated by steroids, lapse and loss of 10,000 year old normal seeds, immense pollution from factory farms, deadly-disease-ridden feed, world-wide bee colony collapse, poisoned soil and depleted water supplies, Superweeds (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1882-geneticallymodified-superweeds-not-uncommon.html), lawsuits against farmers, loss of family farms, and ... India farmers killing themselves in what may be the largest mass suicide in recorded human history (on average ... one farmers’ suicide every 30 minutes since 2002 - The Hindu 1.30.08) - that is industrial agriculture.

Monsanto and Tyson are two of the largest industrial agricultural corporations in the world. Industrial agriculture is represented by your Rose Law Firm.

Your claim to care about food safety is terrifying double-speak given what Bill did and who you take donations from. Your idea of a Department of Food Safety would centralize control of food - in whose corporate connected hands? You talk tough about labeling food - ah, but "foreign" food - a sleight of hand tricking a public desperate for safe US food. You talk about food safety but Bill degraded food in every imaginable way and prevented minimally sane labeling.

I am a person before I am a woman. Your gender means nothing. It is a media distraction. Your policies on health and food and women and children, are meaningless in the face of connections that have threatened those groups profoundly, connections you have never denounced.

Monsanto uses child labor in India, primarily very young girls, exposing them to a lethal pesticide 13-14 hours a day, for pennies in pay. http://www.indiaresource.org/issues/agbiotech/2003/monsantounilever.html But you take donations from their lobbyists. You say you care about black people but as the poorest people in this country, they are least able to buy organic and are forced to eat the contaminated foods Bill let into our food system. The National Black Farmers Association has a boycott out on all Monsanto products.

Do you eat organic?

So, who are you with, hapless black consumers and black farmers, or Monsanto? Mothers left to give their children rBGH milk, or Monsanto? Women exposed to 7 times greater risk of breast cancer, or Monsanto? Desperate farmers in India and young children forced into child labor in cottonseed factories there, or Monsanto? Animals suffering from lives in filthy cages and disgusting feedlots, shot up with steroids and hormones and antibiotics, or Monsanto? Our children who eat candy with high fructose Bt corn syrup associated with kidney and liver toxicity, or Monsanto?

Edwards was right about your corporate connections. I just didn't understand until I saw that PBS show and read about Monsanto, how personally affected my children and grandchildren, and all people around the world, have been.

I will not vote for you. I will vote for someone who will commit themselves to work on behalf of small farmers and real food and decent treatment of animals and to end this industrialized agricultural nightmare that is taking us off a cliff.

Linn Cohen-Cole
Atlanta

12 comments:

  1. Wow. Your post is extremely well written, and it's as poignant as I can imagine. I was not aware of any of that information, and I had never even heard of Monsanto, but I strongly agree that special interests need to be removed from Washington. I sincerely hope that Obama gets the nomination, because I don't want to have to try to choose the lesser of two evils for president of the United States.

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  2. Anonymous11:22 AM

    I am so glad you are raising awareness to Monsanto's raping the farmers with their GM seeds.

    They actually send helicopters out to see if the farmers they sold to see if the farmers were using them the next year and then took the USA farmers to court for not paying for the patented seeds.

    Monsanto is poisoning our land, forcing people to eat GM food, and new research from Indiana University at Bloomington, has just proven that insects which eat the pollen from the "Round Up Ready" corn are dying...which may be one reason we don't see butterflies as we did 50 years ago.

    I wonder if this could also have anything to do with the bees' dying?

    If it has just been proven that certain insects are dying that rely on the pollen from Monsanto's corn, what other affect is it having on the micro-eco system?

    Join Millions Against Monsanto!

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  3. Anonymous1:16 PM

    Mrs Cohen-Cole

    Thank you for being a great American. You were concise in what you wrote and cited excellent sources.

    Who do you support to make agriculture better in the US?

    Jason
    Rural New York

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  4. Anonymous12:21 PM

    Ms. Cohen-Cole's letter to Clinton hits the nail on the head when she speaks of “inbredness” within the corporate boardroom. Our corporate structure of inbreeding (and its ties to government and academia) provides a dangerous level of conflict of interests that propagates the culture of “you pat my back…and I’ll pat yours”, promoting greed ahead of any public health and safety policy. The bottom line is that “it’s all about money”. They (corporate boards and CEOs) could care less about prioritizing the health and safety of you or your children or workers of America. They care only about power and money.

    It is not only the Clintons who have succumbed to corporate “power and money”, but unfortunately all of our politicians, both Democrats and Republicans… the Hillarys, Obamas, McCains and Romneys all have been forced into this prostitution in some way or other. They have been handcuffed by an inherent and complicated political and economic system which demands ties to corporate money directly and indirectly to win a political seat. Don’t expect any politician to help. They can’t at this point. We, the people, first have to make the change and sacrifices against these corporations. And then the change will happen on Capital Hill.

    We know the sickness…now let’s find the cure:
    1. We need grass-roots organizations and leaders to help institute boycotts and protests against many of these unethical corporations (and also their networking friends).
    2. We need to fully support whistleblowers that have been terminated and abused by these unprincipled companies with organized protests and blogs.
    3. We need to find legal advocates to throw these criminals (CEOs and Board of Directors of bad companies) in jail.
    4. We need to STOP BUYING STOCKS IN THOSE COMPANIES that perform unethical business practices and who show a disregard for human health and safety.

    These companies will not stop their unethical practices unless the public forces their hand. And to do so the public must hit them in their pocketbooks or find a way to throw them into jail. That is the only way.

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  5. Anonymous5:12 PM

    Sorry for the attribution mistake, Henwhisperer. I have fixed it-- thanks for pointing it out.

    -Cordelia

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  6. An excellent analysis of the immorality of corporate agribusiness.

    As regards mad cow disease, the worst is still to come. I've just been struck off the Irish blood donors list because I had a root filling done in the UK 20 years ago. Both my daughters are banned from donating blood because they attended UK universities in the 1990s.

    What sort of mad cow epidemic lies ahead for UK citizens and anybody else who has eaten UK beef products? Or had a dentist operate with equipment that might or might not have been properly sterilized?

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  7. Anonymous6:34 PM

    Thanks for writing so well and thoroughly about needed to be written. Too bad you don't have a wider readership. Then again the depressing fact is that the truth can be in plain sight and most people will still ignore it.

    You're right about Hillary's gender being a distraction from the main issues.

    As an Australian, I'm hugely concerned about the very forceful push by US companies such as Monsanto to open the doors to wide spread use of GM seeds over here.

    It fills me with sadness to think about the impending colossal loss of biodiversity that is about to happen.

    To add insult to injury, as GM seeds contaminate other crops, Monsanto and the like are going to claim that people are growing THEIR product illegally. This has already happened in Canada.

    I just can't for the life of me, understand why some people are so cold-bloodedly ruthless in their pursuit of more money than they can possibly ever hope to spend.

    It's time for the corporation laws to be changed so that company directors (or their estates) can be personally held responsible for the harm they cause.

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  8. Anonymous9:23 PM

    I dont disagree with your comments about Corporate America, or about Bill Clinton. But most of what you said was gult by association. Which whilst most likely true, is still not directly Hillarys fault.

    I know that when my wife does things that I've done before, she usually does them differently. Doesnt make her wrong, just different.

    Also you dont give us a resolution to your argument. If not Hillary, then who can you trust not to do the things that Bill did?

    I'm Australian so I have no vested bias to who wins the US elections. The cynical side of me however is sceptical that is possible for Americans generally to vote firstly for a woman and secondly for a black man.

    Sincerely

    Ron Fraser

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  9. Anonymous9:08 AM

    wow!
    thanks for posting that in-depth riveting piece on the Clinton connections, I too am a older white woman liberal NOT on the Hillary bandwagon, Bill sold to this country out to the Corporate greed guzzlers when he gave them NAFTA.

    I just read BP is reporting record profits yet is about to lay-off 13,000 workers(can't remember the exact number).

    John Edwards was RIGHT, nothing is gonna change with these powerful entrenched special interests and lobbyists who are not going to sit on the other side of the table negotiating their power away.

    vote Ron Paul!

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  10. Anonymous11:35 AM

    Great post!!!

    I've noticed I can't even find a decent steak anymore. Steak has always been my favorite and even that is different lately. I started noticing it about 10 years ago. It's just gotten worse over the past 5 years though.

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  11. I discovered your blog because I also was going to write Hillary an open letter and I Googled "An Open Letter to Hillary --" and reached you! I am impressed with your depth of research and clarity of presentation. Basically, I agree . Wow--also a Wellesley gal! Only I am old enough to be your (and Hillary's) mother! (History Major (which has proved extremely valuable to my growth and development of my thinking ), class of 1947, (Hillary's birth year) I am an Independent, although nearly always voted Democratic in national elections. I am a creative, artistic personality, and strongly intuitive--(not at all the Wellesley type), who has been involved with Inner City Children's education in creative ways.
    I had heard some of the appalling plight of the Indian (and other)farmers discussed on WNYC, but I have come to oppose Hillary for a variety of reasons, which surprises even me.
    We need to break away from "Politics as Usual" controlled by lobby groups, big corporate interests , wealthy backers, etc. What began to happen with Howard Deane in '04 was only a small beginning. What has burst forth in support of Obama is astonishing. (I do not believe Hillary is capable of breaking away from "Politics as Usual"...not really.
    It really has nothing to do with his so-called "Blackness". The individual who made that speech in '04 could have been green and it still would have been earth- shaking. I believe he is a creative thinker in ways Hilary could not hope to equal. He is unafraid to take a new approach and face things squarly; discuss things directly with the people. That is what is desperately needed , I think. My 29 year old grandson is inspired! And so many others are. My daughter still likes Hillary, but I plan to send her a link to your blog and anything else I can dig up.
    If Hillary somehow finagles a way to swipe this election away by political shenanigans or pressure on super delegates, there will be so many hard feelings, and it can so easily severely damage the party and the morale of the country, I believe. At this point, Obama owes no political debts except to all those who made $100.00 contributions!
    I hope the world reads your posting! If Hillary chose to step down gracefully, offering Barack all her "Experience and Support " she would greatly improve her political image. However, I am afraid she is just too ambitious, and I am liking her less and less.

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  12. I discovered your blog because I also was going to write Hillary an open letter and I Googled "An Open Letter to Hillary --" and reached you! I am impressed with your depth of research and clarity of presentation. Basically, I agree . Wow--also a Wellesley gal! Only I am old enough to be your (and Hillary's) mother! (History Major (which has proved extremely valuable to my growth and development of my thinking ), class of 1947, (Hillary's birth year) I am an Independent, although nearly always voted Democratic in national elections. I am a creative, artistic personality, and strongly intuitive--(not at all the Wellesley type), who has been involved with Inner City Children's education in creative ways.
    I had heard some of the appalling plight of the Indian (and other)farmers discussed on WNYC, but I have come to oppose Hillary for a variety of reasons, which surprises even me.
    We need to break away from "Politics as Usual" controlled by lobby groups, big corporate interests , wealthy backers, etc. What began to happen with Howard Deane in '04 was only a small beginning. What has burst forth in support of Obama is astonishing. (I do not believe Hillary is capable of breaking away from "Politics as Usual"...not really.
    It really has nothing to do with his so-called "Blackness". The individual who made that speech in '04 could have been green and it still would have been earth- shaking. I believe he is a creative thinker in ways Hilary could not hope to equal. He is unafraid to take a new approach and face things squarly; discuss things directly with the people. That is what is desperately needed , I think. My 29 year old grandson is inspired! And so many others are. My daughter still likes Hillary, but I plan to send her a link to your blog and anything else I can dig up.
    If Hillary somehow finagles a way to swipe this election away by political shenanigans or pressure on super delegates, there will be so many hard feelings, and it can so easily severely damage the party and the morale of the country, I believe. At this point, Obama owes no political debts except to all those who made $100.00 contributions!
    I hope the world reads your posting! If Hillary chose to step down gracefully, offering Barack all her "Experience and Support " she would greatly improve her political image. However, I am afraid she is just too ambitious, and I am liking her less and less.

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