In the past day I have seen many posts from supporters of the Clinton Campaign that have sought to denigrate and belittle one of the few defenders of Democratic values in the public arena, Keith Olbermann. Accusations of bias, sexism, irrelevance and egoism have all been thrown at this man. There have been requests that the Clinton campaign take him to court - there is probably more but I truly cannot stomach the double standards - the bigotry - of these attacks.

You have ask "is this different from the Olbermann who defended Hillary back in summer last year? Or a different Olbermann to the defender of Bill? To the Olbermann who many here praised for taking an supine congress to task and who was lauded for speaking truth to power (with no dissent on this board) when he criticised Bush or others of the dynastic cabal that has been ruling the US?" and of course it is not.

I am beginning to see the supporters of Clinton as blind, lobotomised fools who cannot accept their heroine has feet of clay and the electoral tactics of a weasel. These automata must truly really believe that this politician they idolise is perfect and without any fault. Can they not see that in their attempts to justify their continued support of this crippled losers campaign they are also justifying the machine politics that has nearly destroyed the Democratic Party.

The political machine can subvert the convention and has given indications of how it will try to do so. The appeal to Superdelegates shows that they will receive bounteous favours similar to those offered by previous presidencies - with the added assurance that having a previous president promising them can give. That is bad enough but I suspect that the observation that committed delegates can "change their minds" means that inducements will be offered to Obama Delegates to change their support. This sort of corruption of the party will lead to it's collapse and, possibly, worse.

Earlier I said that machine politics has nearly destroyed the Democratic Party but left out the other part of my belief, that machine politics will also destroy the USA. I will be accused of hyperbole (and the usual sexism, hatred etc etc ad infinitum) but I think it is truly the case. A Clinton candidacy this autumn will destroy the Democratic party; if she loses the election the Democratic party will be seen as unelectable and will loosed funding and relevance unless they become "leibermen" DINO's; if by some miracle (or fix) she wins, she will ensure the dominance of the DLC and the the "liebermaning" of the party. In either of those events the conservatives will have won the political argument and Corporatism will have supplanted democracy.

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