Dems Bout

Just as classic long-lasting battles such as the 1991 bout between Evander Holyfield & George Foreman, will the 2008 Democratic fight for the candidacy go the distance? Candidacy hopeful, Barack Obama’s campaign continued on Saturday in Johnstown, Pennsylvania where he rejected the feelings of other dems that say that his opponent New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton should leave the race. Obama told reporters that he does not agree with the comments of supporter, Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, who said that Sen. Clinton could not win the nomination and she drop out. “My attitude is Senator Clinton can run as long as she wants,” Obama said.

Senator Clinton was on her campaign trail today in Indiana where she made several stops and posed the question to voters if she should withdraw from the race inciting support for continuance from her followers. The senator said when she visited Kentucky, “There are some people who say we should just stop these elections. “Enough people have already voted, what”s a few million more?’” Clinton further stated, “I don’t know about you but I’m glad Kentucky is going to be voting and you’ll be choosing because it’s such an important election.” Kentucky holds its primary on the May 20th.

Also campaigning in Pennsylvania, was her husband, and former President, Bill Clinton, who stated that party insiders looking to throw in the towel should let the match-up proceed. “We just need to relax and let this happen. Nobody’s talking about wrecking the party,” the former president said. “Everywhere I go, all these working people say: “Don”t you dare let her drop out. Don’t listen to those people in Washington, they don’t represent us.’”

The Clinton campaign on Saturday released an e-mail, signed by the former President, urging supporters to send a contribution to the campaign to challenge talks of his wife’s withdrawal from the race. He wrote, “There’s no better way to tell Hillary that you support her staying in than to make a contribution to her campaign.”

With the last two primaries to be held in Montana and South Dakota on June 3rd, it remains to be seen if this bout will indeed go the distance. But with neither corner even attempting to pick up the towel to surrender, it is safe to conclude that the candidates will fight with all that they have left, leaving it all in the ring. In the 1991 bout of Holyfield versus Foreman, after 12 rounds of hard fighting, Holyfield emerged as the winner by unanimous decision. Who will show to be the “Real Deal” in this bout? Will it be who some claim to be the current front runner, Obama? Or will Sen. Clinton, whose husband was a previous holder of the Presidential belt unleash a vicious right jab, left hook, right uppercut combination to launch and land her opponent on democracy’s canvas. All sports figures will tell you that no fight is totally predictable. But just as the many one rounders of the Tyson era, this one will make history. So people stay tuned, for this is a battle for the ages indeed.