All The Way To The White House...Yeaaaaargh...
I got the beer...popcorn's heatin' up
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Man but do I love romantic comedies...err, I mean, Democrat politics and conundrums. Apparently, the Democrats are getting their undies all in a bundle over a close primary race.
[hand raised from the back row of the cheap seats]Wasn't it the Republicans that were doomed to middle earth because of a looming brokered convention?
Heh...I love bloodsport...
Democrats in Michigan and Florida struggled Friday to resolve the impasse over their disputed January primaries, coming up with a plan to hold a June primary in Michigan while remaining deadlocked in Florida.
Reflecting how tense the situation has become, influential fund-raisers for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton have stepped up their behind-the-scenes pressure on national party leaders to resolve the matter, with some even threatening to withhold their donations to the Democratic National Committee unless it seats the delegates from the two states or holds new primaries there.
The committee penalized Michigan and Florida for holding their primaries early in violation of national party rules, barring their delegates from being seated at the Democratic convention this summer. But with the Democratic contest now a scramble for every remaining delegate, the allocation of delegates from the two states could have a substantial impact on the nomination.
Mrs. Clinton won the primaries in both states, but the contests were not sanctioned by the party, neither candidate campaigned in the states and Mr. Obama did not even put his name on the ballot in Michigan.
Pushing to seat the Florida delegates, at least one top Clinton fund-raiser, Paul Cejas, a Miami businessman who has given the Democratic National Committee $63,500 since 2003, has demanded Democratic officials return his 2007 contribution of $28,500, which they have agreed to do.
"If you’re not going to count my vote, I’m not going to give you my money," said Mr. Cejas, who was the United States ambassador to Belgium from 1998 to 2001.
How'd that work out in Flo...oh, never mind.
From this little perch o' mine, I'd say the DNC has fairly well horked things up for the poor and downtrodden just fine, all by themselves...no need for eeeeevil Republicans to get in the way is there?
Howard Dean is as much the chimp NOW as he ever might have been when he was screaming his way into obscurity. Have at it Howie-no one disenfranchises the disenfranchised like a Democrat.
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So its much more on Howard deans head. The art of compromise seems lost on him.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
How hard can a resolution be? We have been hearing from all sides that neither Clinton nor Obama can secure the nomination with the pledged delegates. If that is true, then the issue is moot. Without knowing (or caring to know) the details of the convention rules, I assume that at some point the delegates are released from their pledges: otherwise the convention itself would be pointless (no, that is not meant as a joke). If neither candidate can win on the first vote, and delegates are then released into the maelstrom, why not just seat the Florida and Michigan delegates after the first vote? The commitments of the Florida / Michigan delegations are ignored, which is the point of the DNC penalty to them for their early primaries. But the delegates themselves are seated, and through their participation the voices of Florida & Michigan are heard.
This whole imbroglio is a demonstration of the leadership capabilities of the Democrats. They cannot run their party, their states – why on earth anyone would trust them with the Federal Government is beyond me.
On another note, I get increasingly irritated at the statement that ‘Obama did not even put his name on the ballot in Michigan’. That is quite a mischaracterization; as if his campaign had decided to give Michigan a ‘bye’. He DID put his name on the ballot there, as did the other Democratic candidates. When the DNC ruled against the Michigan primary, he and the other candidates removed their names from the ballot. Ms. Clinton did not. Why isn’t she being pressed harder about that little piece of conscious, electioneering malfeasance?
I'd be guessing the media would really like to see a Hillary-McCain matchup
for the general election. It sure seems their coverage all leans that way.
What I love about this is that those geniuses in the Florida legislature, decided to change the date to garner more status in their primary. Had they left it alone, they would have been in the heat of the battle. Now they're sitting their sucking their thumbs whining over the consequences of their stupidity. Not to mention those political geniuses in Forida and in the Democrat Party floating all of these "fixes", one worse then the other, and none resembling anything other than a feeble attempt to find a way to derail Barak - this is beyond entertaining, and we can only hope they continue their show.
I hear the DNC will be mailing ballots to registered Democrats in FL. What about everyone else?
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
So what!?! I need to vote!!!
The Floridian former ambassador to Belgium tells the DNC that he wants his money back if they won't count his vote.
The DNC should just say: "look, genius, next time tell your friends in the Florida legislature not to hold a wildcat primary in January. You follow the rules, and we'll follow the rules."
The reason FL and MI are an issue is because Clinton is losing, and that's the only reason.
But those states should lose their delegations because they openly defied the party's rules. It's simply beyond me that the media are seriously discussing this as if justice has not been done.