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DNC Blog Report: Let’s Talk About Power

By: Marlon Hill

DENVER – Today’s lesson boys and girls is about a word that many people do not like to talk about: POWER!

Who has it? What do they do with it? or Where does it manifest itself?

It is 8pm EST and I am sitting in one of America’s platforms of power. Under the US Constitution, we have three independent branches of POWER – the legislative, the judiciary, and the one presently on the stage – the EXECUTIVE.

I ran into a fraternity brother and Obama supporter from South Carolina and he noted three important rules of POWER:

1. POWER exists.
2. POWER flows through people and
3. People have the POWER to be powerful.

In the Democratic party, we are witnessing a reallocation of power. Bill and Hillary Clinton have built the power base of the party for years. Their political allies and staff and business associates have benefitted from their access to this POWER.

During my visit this rookie witness to this vestibule of POWER, there is a clear struggle for access to POWER with the political aquarirum of Clinton and Obama supporters. Who has access to certain posh hotel accommodations? Who is special credentials to the Hall floor or to the hot parties? It was also glaring that the POWER also flows through the checkbook.

In the company merger of the Democratic party of the Clinton-Obama factor, the pursuit or retention of POWER distracts the real purpose for CHANGE we can believe in.

Last night, Senator Clinton used her personal power to endorse her support for Sen.Obama and also inspired her supporters and others to do the same. Even if privately she may have harbored the pains of a loss, she made the party more powerful in overlooking her own ambitions.

We are awaiting the speeches of Pres. Bill Clinton and Sen. Joe Biden to share their own thoughts on how they wish to utilize their own power.

Stay tuned for feedback.

We have POWER – let’s use it wisely for the common good.

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