Un-#$%@ing-believable
January 26th, 2008To keep the Democratic primary season from being even more congested, the
DNC ruled back in 2007 than only 4 states were allowed to hold Democratic primaries or caucuses before February 5th. Michigan and Florida state democrats went ahead and decided to hold their events ahead of the party’s rules. The DNC immediately warned both states that they need to push the dates of their events back to February 5 or they would lose their delegates to the national convention.
Both states declined to back down and as a result, had their delegates stripped. By violating Democratic party rules, those state Democrats forfeited their votes at the convention. In solidarity with the party, the candidates vowed to not campaign in those states. Obama and Edwards went so far as to remove their names from the Michigan ballot. Hillary left her name on it.
Hillary, the only major Democratic candidate on the ballot, got 51% of the Michigan vote and about a quarter-million Michigan voters left their homes on a snowy day to cast a vote of Uncommitted as a protest against her. Just imagine if Edwards and Obama had actually had their names on the ballot or campaigned!
Now, with the race so close and it looking like every delegate may count toward the nomination and with Florida’s delegate-stripped primary around the corner, Hillary is looking to get those delegates back and retroactively award herself delegates against the party rules.
She is showing every Democrat her true face: rules mean nothing to her.
She wants to win the nomination the way George W. won the White House: lies, lawyers and technicalities. If America is so screwed to elect her, that’s exactly how she would run the White House.
She is abandoning any pretense of ethics at this point. We are seeing the real Hillary here.
Hillary Pushes For Florida, Michigan Delegate Grab
– Steve
Stumble it!
January 26th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Steve,
Do you have a source for this, or is it on TPM & other blogs?
January 26th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Heya. I’ve added some links to the bottom of the post. Both are TPM links.
January 29th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
[…] to Pollster.com’s collection of polls… it currently […]
January 29th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2007/sep/30/obama-vows-do-whats-right/?news-breaking
How about some real and honest reporting of the situation?
January 29th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Sorry to post this twice but LV cross-posted.
Thanks for that link. The more information the better.
I think this story makes Barack look like a million bucks.
From how I read it, the story is about a September event that amounts to a short interview where press gathered outside a completely-legit fundraiser. The story sums it up, “Obama seemed unaware the pledge he signed prohibits news conferences.”
Whoops.
Obama’s statement supporting Florida’s Dems at the time is in the context of the Florida Dems still challenging the DNC’s crappy decision and it wasn’t for three months before courts ruled in the DNC’s favor.
I believe every fair-minded person would want Michigan’s and Florida’s Primaries to have been full contests and “do right” by Michigan’s and Florida’s voters.
Only a completely dishonest person would try to equate that with retroactively awarding delegates for Michigan’s uncontested primary.
– Steve