Hillary Clinton is the New Ralph Nader

Despite her clear victory in Pennsylvania's Democratic primary, opinion polls suggest that Hillary Clinton will lose forthcoming primaries in North Carolina and Oregon, effectively crowning Barack Obama the Democratic Party's Presidential nominee. Clinton's solution? Break with the Democrats, and run as an independent candidate, or so EIN News reported her advisors leaking to the press today.

Such a move would be a serious gamble for Clinton, who, in leaving the Democratic Party, may very well destroy any chances a party other than the Republicans would have in winning the next Presidential election. Is Hillary the next Ralph Nader? Quite possibly. Inevitably, Clinton would end up splitting the Democratic vote, and hand the election to Arizona Senator John McCain.

Why the New York Senator would make such a potential move, when conceding the primary to Obama would more likely guarantee the Democrats victory, is something only Clinton could answer. Would it really be worth sacrificing the US to another four years of Republican rule? Absolutely not. Though the Democrats do not represent a serious ideological alternative to the Republicans by any stroke of the imagination, an Obama Presidency would not be nearly as destructive as a Republican one would.

Despite the fact that America suffered a horrible calamity on 9/11 that forced it to go to war in the Mideast, the Bush administration used the opportunity to help the United States effectively commit economic and social suicide. Just look at the credit crisis, the stock market, the devaluation of US currency, the price of petrol, and the three and a half million Americans who have effectively lost their jobs since 2001, not to mention the increasing number of body bags coming back from Iraq.

That's not just your past seven years, but America's next seven ones as well. Hearing of senior politicians like Clinton considering such self-serving moves only serves to affirm such dire predictions. Everything that could get worse most definitely will, and America will only have itself to blame for being such an absolute shipwreck of a country. You have only yourselves to blame for it. Things could have turned out quite differently.