Hillary Gets On Board The Obama Express!

I want to applaud Hillary Clinton for her speech this afternoon. She made that gracious exit I have been urging for so long and wholeheartedly endorsed Barack Obama for President. Senator Clinton has come around to the side of supporting the party and working to get a Democrat back in the White House and for that we should all be grateful.

From the reactions of her supporters, I feel most will follow her lead and work for the Obama campaign through November. The diehards who are moaning about supporting McCain, I suspect either have no idea what they are saying or do not care that McCain could stack the Supreme Court and achieve the overturning of Rove Vs. Wade which the GOP has long sought. To doubt that McCain will try this is a mistake. He will to appease his bible thumping backers, though if the Supreme Court overturns Rove, his hands will be clean. He can blame it on the court and not have to be seen supporting the pro-choice lobby and potentially pissing off a good part of the moderate and independent voters.

Hillary will need to continue to work on her supporters to ease them into the idea of backing Obama’s campaign. A small minority of those are like the woman who was caught screaming at the DNC rules committee. They have some deep seated racist beliefs that might prevent them from voting for an African-American. It is my hope that they can move beyond that fear and see Obama as a candidate who will restore America to what it once was.