Let me get this straight…

John McCain, Mitt Romney and Karl Rove are all on the campaign trail, on message, redefining McCain and pounding on Senator Obama.

And the Democrats?

Still trying to come together.

In a symbolic gesture, Senator Obama gave Senator Clinton a campaign contribution to help in the retirement of her more than $20 million dollar debt.

Debt, remember, that she incurred while undermining Obama.

Debt she incurred while attempting to turn working-class white voters against Obama.

Debt she incurred attacking Obama’s leadership qualifications.

Half of this debt is money she loaned her campaign when the writing was already on the wall. By then, she had no real path to the nomination, but still chose to continue loaning herself money and working to undermine our eventual nominee.

And now she wants Obama and his nationwide network to retire her debt to ensure her vigorous support of his campaign?

Did I miss McCain’s checks to Huckabee and Romney?

Did I miss the unity efforts the Republicans undertook to ensure that Huckabee and Romney voters would fall behind McCain?

At a time when the Republicans are working as a team, reading from the same page, the Democrats are losing time and wasting energy still trying to come together.

Still some Clinton voters say they’ll sit November out, or worse, vote for McCain – even though his first appointment to the Supreme Court would guarantee more decisions like the one handed down yesterday overturning nearly all of D.C.’s firearm restrictions. We’ll watch the nation roll backward on issues from choice to affirmative action – the very result many Clinton supporters have spent decades fighting to prevent.

And these are the same people that would be outraged if Obama had lost, and his supporters had threatened to sit out the general election.

Posted by Bernie Campbell on Friday, June 27, 2008
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