Hillary Clinton Pennsylvania Primary Victory Speech

Barack Obama Post-Pennsylvania Primary Speech

In a strong push to bring out voters on Tuesday, I worked as a volunteer for the Obama Campaign in Philadelphia over the weekend. Here’s a snippet:

Only minutes after being dispatched by the staff of Obama’s Philadelphia headquarters, I came across a twenty-something man who was enthusiastically supporting Obama. When I tried, as I had been instructed, to give him information about his polling place, I could see his enthusiasm flag.

“I can’t vote,” he told me.

He could not vote not because he wasn’t registered, or because he wasn’t a citizen. He could not vote because he made a mistake when he was a teenager. He committed a crime.

In a country where voter turnout is so dependably abysmal, our legislators have decided to further marginalize millions of current and former offenders by taking away their right to vote. To prevent so many people who have so much to gain from a participatory democracy from that most fundamental form of participation is perverse.

It was a discouraging start to the weekend.

To renew my enthusiasm, I began thumbing my way through the campaign literature I would distribute over the next two days. I was shocked. Highlighted as part of Obama’s platform was a promise to “help rehabilitate and train ex-prisoners to re-acclimate themselves into society.”

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Obama ad running in Pennsylvania:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, (D-NY), scored comprehensive wins in Ohio and Texas. She also won in Rhode Island. Her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, (D-IL), won in Vermont. The wins helped stanch Mrs. Clinton’

s string of 11 straight losses since her big night on Super Tuesday.

The next ‘fight of the century’

figures to be in Pennsylvania in late April. And, as she did before last night, she may have to sustain another string of losses to Sen. Obama in the race to be the Democratic Party nominee for president of the United States before that primary.

Thus it always is with the Clintons, drama, emotions, whether real or cooked up.

There can be no doubt anymore that the Clintons will do whatever it takes, including damaging the eventual Democratic Party nominee, to win this nomination. For Sen. Clinton, the nomination is destiny. For former Pres. Bill Clinton, it is redemption.They are not about to stand by and let Sen. Obama, soaring rhetoric or not, get in the way of that. What Mr. Obama has to show now is how he fights.