Blogging on Meds

Hillary doesn’t need to drop out of the race. She needs to focus on the issues. 

Much has been made about the comments from VT Sen. Patrick Leahy

There is no way that Sen. Clinton is going to win enough delegates to get the nomination,”… “She ought to withdraw, and she ought to be backing Sen. Obama. Now, obviously that’s a decision that only she can make. Frankly, I feel that she would have a tremendous career in the Senate.”

and to a lesser extent but maybe more eloquently by CT Sen Chris Dodd

Well, I think it is hurting. Look, we’ve got five more months to go before the Democratic convention at the end of August and, candidly, we cannot go five more months with the kind of daily sniping that’s going on and have a candidate emerge in that convention. My hope is that it will be Barack Obama, but if it’s Hillary Clinton, she too will suffer, in my view, from this kind of a campaign that I think is undermining the credibility and the quality of the two candidates that we have. We have two very strong candidates. So I’m worried about this going on endlessly and to a large extent, Linda, the media, a lot of these cable networks, are enjoying this. It’s what is keeping them alive financially. The fact that this thing is going on forever, back and forth every day, all night — I don’t think it’s really helping the candidates or the political institutions.

Obama had this to say today in University Park, PA

“I want everybody to understand that this has been a great contest, great for America. It’s engaged and involved people like never before. I think it’s terrific that Senator Clinton’s supporters have been as passionate as my supporters have been because that makes the people invested and engaged in this process, and I am absolutely confident that when this primary season is over, Democrats will be united.”

Bill Clinton said

We’re going to win this election if we just chill out and let everybody have their say”

and Hillary 

“I have no intention of stopping until we finish what we started and until we see what happens in the next 10 contests and until we resolve Florida and Michigan,” Clinton said in the Post interview. “And if we don’t resolve it, we’ll resolve it at the convention.”

Unfortunately a CT Senator with very little charisma has spoken the party line better then the rest. The media does not want to pick it up because it is not as good a story line.

Hillary dropping out is not what is needed.

What is needed is a debate about the issues.

Don’t let the TV media trick you into thinking this is about who is more christian, who came under more fire in Bosnia, whose husband had more extra marital affairs, or whose Reverend is the craziest.

The party message should not be drop out, but rather clean it up and talk about the issues.