Barack Obama the Democratic Nominee?

  I do not think that Barack Obama has become the Democratic nominee yet?  I just do not feel good about Barack Obama.  I still want that dream ticket.  I want Hillary Clinton the nominee and Barack Obama running for vice president with her.
  I can understand why Barack Obama would not want that second place slot. 
  If I were Howard Dean, Al Gore and other people in the party I would have gone to Barack Obama and asked him to take the second place slot.  When he said he was going for the top slot I would have told him it is not your time yet.  I would have told him next time we will all put our support behind you.  When Obama said no he wanted to run get the nomination now again I would say this is NOT your time.  Then I would say we are all asking you for the nation and for the party to step back and take the second place slot.
  If we had powerful leaders in the Democratic party we could say next time you will have our support.  If you do not do what is good for the nation now then you will not have our support this time and not next time.

  The problem is the power people in the party have already given their support to Obama. 

  The way the Democratic and Republican parties worked in the past was that someone would start at the bottom and work their way up.  You might be a teenager and you would worked unpaid doing something for the party.  (I did as a teen on election day a long time ago.)
  Then you would work your way up getting elected to office or by speaking and working for the party for years and years. 
  FDR, Harry Truman and even Ronald Reagan started out working for their party for years. 
  In the recent times we have had Republicans with lots of their own money that wanted to take a fast track to the White House but the American people do not like someone buying their way to being the nominee.

  If Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee I will work for his election and I will vote for him.  I think this is the time for Hillary Clinton.