Conservatives Challenge Dean's Remarks Against McCain

Colleen Reese Breaking News Editor

We are a celebrated generation of people. Ignoring television's obsession with the typified, lazy American teenager, the youth generation has proven themselves to be a passionate, enthusiastic, and reckoning movement.

Daily Kos on Saturday featured a lengthy diary post about the relationship between the politicians endorsing Sen. Barack Obama and their children. It seems that Sen. Obama's success with youth has actually caused the children of politicians to encourage their parents to endorse the aspiring nominee.

Sen. Bob Casey (D-Penn.), publicly endorsed Sen. Obama after a long period of neutrality towards the Democratic nomination, according to Katharine Seelye and Michael Powell of The New York Times. It seems that Sen. Casey, in addition to several other reasons, was influenced by his children.

The diary post continues to list other politicians whose children have helped them in the decision to support Sen. Obama, including Caroline Kennedy and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Kan.).

Also posted yesterday on Redstate, conservative bloggers delve into Democratic National Committee Chairman, Howard Dean's accusations of Sen. John McCain, "calling John McCain an opportunist for using images of his military service." The controversy lies in Dean's previous endorsement of former presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry, a time in 2004 when Dean saw Kerry's military experience as a beneficial quality in a leader.

This particular blog challenges Sens. Obama and Clinton to respond accordingly to Dean's sentiments towards Sen. John McCain, as voiced by Republican National Committee Chairman, Robert Duncan: "I call on both Senators Obama and Clinton to denounce Howard Dean for stating that Senator McCain is a 'blatant opportunist' for discussing his record of military service with the American people."

The question being asked on MOMcrats is why are Democrats, Republicans, and voters alike trying so hard to get Sen. Clinton out of the race for the Democratic nomination? This constant agitation, "GET! OUT! HILLARY!" poses a question to the Democratic Party: "[is] the Democratic party so inept that it can't stand a debate between two qualified candidates?"

This "political [drum]" plants Sen. Clinton in a peculiar lose-lose situation, according to the blogger who said, "If Hillary Clinton stays in the race, she'll be considered a spoiler, even if she wins the nomination."

As a democratic nation, we should never be harassing candidates out of a race, but supporting our own causes and candidates. In doing so, we allow the very fundamentals of democracy to flourish: respecting another's choice to enjoy the same excitement we feel when supporting our own candidates so that we may enjoy that same luxury of respect.