Americans Away From Home

The prize is probably the hardest job in the world. With perks, sure, yet it also comes with more headaches than feel-good. Still, they want it! Their focus sharp, they're not yielding.

Not Hillary. This week she'll unleash what her campaign hopes is the equivalent shock and awe of that other March fusillade five years ago now. (NY Times article here)

Hillary's advisors believe that attack-machine is way to go to grab those undecideds. Hit, knock, whack, and maybe some of that Obama-love might velcro to her, not him.

What about November's effect, after tearing, grabbing, clawing for those votes? Could Democrats lose because of gashing still coming from the last-stabs of Hillary's gasping hopes?

So she wins Ohio, let's say. Not huge, but enough. And Obama, closing on her or close to that in Texas, takes Texas after all.

Is it worth it? It's pretty reckless, to split Democrats at this point. Say Hillary wins Ohio, and hangs on somehow through June. Then what? Will Superdelegates, there as needed for collective wisdom to protect the party from itself, dare to raise the wrath of all those juicy new voters and young people who've come out to party only for Obama? (NY Times article here).

When does a never-give-up person at last see it's time to quit? Was there an end to Winston Churchill's fabled call to never ever ever ever give up? Surely at some point the sentiment ended; there was a final word, a full stop, as British say, to the sentence.

Sometimes you have to give up. Sometimes you have to give it up. Sometimes, it just isn't your thought-it-was-yours election year.

The freshly nascent chance Democrats waited all these years for, the right time, their best chance, light after dark.  The sweetness of anticipating January 20. Real possibilities for change, gathering what's divided us, to focus on America again.

Can Hillary let it go, foregoing losing the battle to win the ultimate November war? Would those voting for Obama stick around themselves or, more likely, would they be unable to stomach the reversal of their votes, the shared feeling of losing their franchise of heart?

Any chance Hillary might call off the attack-dogs of March?  She'd have to be as wise as Solomon to avoid cutting this Baby in half.

Carole