The tough choice

[Boz]

I know how difficult it is to lose something you were passionate for in the political sphere, when Al gore lost I was devastated, literally going into the first clinical depression I have ever experienced. I saw the loss so personally and was afraid of what it meant on many levels to what my future held, many of those fears have been answered and come to fruition under George Bush.

I say this because I can relate to much of what you feel now, and in this divisive primary it is even more difficult than the general election loss of 2000 because the very people you are pitted against are the people that are supposed to be ideologically in agreement with you, and some of those people have just been obnoxious in their freverence for the other candidate.

But today you are stuck in another difficult situation, not only do you have to deal with the grief of a loss that too many of you may feel like it is world changing and even devastating, but you are now being put in an even more difficult position that seems to be a no win situation.

You have been put there by Hillary, I am not saying she has done it wrongly and I can't even say she shouldn't do it for her best interest, but today you are faced with a question that many of your fellow Hillary supporters have had to face.

Are you a bargaining chip or a Democrat?

Please do not get angry with me for asking, do not lash out that I am trying to hurt you out of your pain, unfortunately it is the position you are being put into, not by Hillary's challengers but by Hillary herself.

She is no longer representing your interest, if you are a democrat, because your interest as a democrat are represented by the party not an individual looking to trade you away as a political game.

You will be traded away by Hillary, no matter what your choice is, she has offered you up, by her own words to get what she wants for Hillary.

Today your use to her is leverage, "political capital" as George Bush has called it in the past, and she is trying to spend that capital as if it is a commodity not individuals with many needs but a chip to be thrown on the table and assumed to be in her control and used and traded away for whatever she wants, by her own definition in her speech.

Today you face the question, Are you a Democrat or a bargaining chip? The answer, the power and decision is yours to make and I expect some of you may not want to answer and some of you may answer it is ok for you to be used for her interest, but you do have to make a stand and a decision of whether you chose to be used for political gain by allowing yourself to be a chip to be thrown on the table and eventually traded away or a voice joined with millions to take control of your future not Hillary's future.

I wish you all well and honor your candidates and your passion in the run up to today, but it is days not weeks to move forward with both your Democratic life or to turn the page and be traded away and away from the Democratic party.

Are you a bargaining chip or a Democrat, ask the hard question, I hope you join us once again.