Damn the Democrats for Destroying Our Hopes....





We can file away our hopes and aspirations.



There will be no “dream ticket” now.



Too much has happened; each of the candidates now seems to hate the other.



Every imaginable charge has been levied and both candidates are sullied and tarnished by race, gender and character assassination.



There was no need for that; except that the race, itself, superseded everything else.



And the DNC failed to step in to assert itself.



In short, we have done the republicans work for them while spending a 100 million dollars in the process….



By the time the Convention is over, the “winner” will limp into the arena to take on a fresh John McCain.



All the 527’s will have to do is regurgitate the charges already levied and it will be a disaster.



The DNC missed its chance to demand that the contest be kept to a fair standard.



And it may be likely that this will be the democratic party’s last hurrah.



Was it a mistake in the first place to advance a Afro-American and a woman?



Could we not imagine that this might happen?



In the end, does it point to the fact that we can not rise above our prejudices and our hatreds? That we are a besotted lot, imprinted with primitive memory of how dangerous differences can be, only if they are of pigment and sex?



In any event, democrats stayed true to their tradition of such animus that we could not help but bring each other down as the embittered party manages to promulgate a republican considered a maverick and non-conservative despite what he says.



It is a sad commentary that the notion of a two party system seems to be falling apart because the other side cannot muster a candidate that a majority of democrats can agree on. In effect, we as democrats seem to harbor an innate “death wish” that would sooner see us destroyed than take on the other side.



It is reminiscent of the Rainbow Coalition where each used their ethno-centricities to destroy the other. If anyone killed the Rainbow Coalition, it was the democrats.



It is sad that in the end, it was not the decency, fair play or character of the candidates that rose to the surface but bickering, nastiness and pettiness and so ends the story of the democratic party writ large so that everyone gets the message.



It reduces me to anger and tears.



Damn them all for treating the rest of us this way.



Les Aaron