It's time To End This:  Ask Hillary to Get Out of the Race

Dear Dr. Dean:

Attached, please find  PART TWO of the petition to the DNC to stop the Dirty Politics of Senator Clinton. This petition takes things a step further and is asking that you request that Senator Clinton quit the race before tearing the democratic party apart. We will not let her dirty politics win the day! She must be held accountable, it's time to ask her to concede the race to Mr. Obama.

As you will recall, in part one of our petition delivered 1/25/08 we provided you with over 1300 signatures and we indicated that we collected those 1300 signatures in less than 24 hours which amounts to about a signature per minute.  Clearly the members of the democratic party find that there is a real sense of urgency surrounding this matter.

As we have yet to hear from you or to be acknowledged in any way by your organization we have decided to continue the drive for signatures indefinitely until such time as you will hear our voices.
 
As you will find once you peruse the depth and breadth of this petition, many of its signators are life-long Democratic Party Faithfuls- even more ironic is that many of them are former Clinton supporters, and by signing this, all of them have effectively pledged to either switch party affiliations or to boycott the general election if Hillary Clinton wins the democratic nomination through dirty campaign tactics. As much as we want a Democrat back in the White House, we refuse to coalesce and rally around a Machiavellian nominee just to win the beloved spoils.

It is deeply troubling and beyond offensive to each of us that  Senator Clinton and her surrogates have deliberately and maliciously created a rift in the Democratic Party structure, one that she is clearly hoping to use to her advantage.  Staying in the race at this point does our party no favors.

Furthermore, now she is trying to change the rules of engagement by trying to litigiously usurp delegates from "stripped primary states". We feel that this "win at all costs" strategy is unacceptable and we want it to stop immediately. We cannot and will not support a candidate who strong-arms his or her way to the nomination.

We respectfully request that you address Senator Clinton immediately and ask her to make a public pledge to cease and desist and to quit the race.  We feel a public apology to Senator Obama is in order for her campagin's intentional distortions of his character. 

Furthermore, we also feel that Senator Clinton owes the Democratic Party and all of its members a formal public apology for trying to win our votes with lies and vitriol.  That being said, we would like her to make a public announcement to the news media to the effect that she takes full responsibility for the damage that she has done, that she is going to stop this ugliness, and that she is going to quit the race.

We understand that you are in a difficult position, sir, but as you weigh the importance of appearing neutral in the public eye versus doing what you know in your heart is correct, we ask you to imagine what 1 signature per minute might mean for the Democratic  Party when compounded over 10 months instead of a mere 24 hours. 

That is nearly a half of a million registered democrats that are either going to stay home or switch party affiliations. I hasten to remind you that the last two elections were won or lost over fewer votes than that. 

It is clear the people want Senator Obama to move ahead NOW as the Democratic Nominee. Please choose carefully. 

We thank you sincerely for your time and attention.

Respectfully

TM Wheaton