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All I konw is that I am very disapoointed with the leadership of the DNC for being "neutral". NOW ISN'T the time to do that when things are going to get worse!
Thanks Clintons and Clinton supporters for fucking up another 4 years to the Repugs.
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This troubles me. If the party chair doesn't have control over the credentials committee, who does?
I am an Obama supporter. Have some hope. I think Obama can pull this out.
Matthew
As political ties go, this type of chaos within the Democratic Party hasn't happened since the 1960's which ended with violent results. That happened practically due to the Powers That Be's last minute decision during the convention. Here, today, the Democrats have an opportunity to deal with the rules before it gets to the Convention. Already as the US moves closer to the Convention, rumors of "fixing", "rule changing", "favoritism", "racism", "unorganized" etc., are building and the results can be percentages of Democrats protesting in ways that will give fuel for the opposition Party to use for a National win.
Howard Dean's measure to punish those within Florida and Michigan silences over five and a half million American citizens. Although rules are rules, the rules that make up the National Democratic Party have enough wiggle room to create a solution to this. HOWARD DEAN needs to check his Ego and allow for a NEW VOTE. There is time between now and the next vote (which is 5 weeks from now). Just imagin, 30% from each state not voting in PROTEST? That would be and easimate of 3,850,000 people not voting or changing their Party affiliation. That is HUGE.
Force HOWARD DEAN to fix this and then BOOT him from the leadership positon. This all could have been solved a long time ago if not for EGO.
If Dean gets bigfooted aside and those delegates are seated, i will have lost a big chunk of faith in the electoral process.
But that's unlikely. Far more likely is that Clinton picks a choice moment - say, shortly before the Pennsylvania primary - to put it to Obama that they campaign in those states for a revote. If she does that, he's pretty much going to have to take her up on it, barring some unequivocal ruling by the credentials committee that that cannot happen.
The Democratic Party was hoping Hillary had last or even better DROP OUT but in all fairness to Democracy (using Huckabee as an example) the candidate is suppose to run until there is a clear winner.
HOWARD DEAN is to prepare for the Convetion and yet over 5 1/2 million people are punished for a selected few officials??? That is not democratic. DEAN can fix this and should. Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away.
1.6 million showed up in the Florida primary, but most of them were spurred to show up by a property tax referendum, which actually got more votes than the Democratic Presidential race. Of the 1.6 million who voted for President, Hillary Clinton got 800,000 or 50% of the vote. And this was though she was making a big stink about Florida and campaigning in it while Obama didn't. Hardly decisive landslides there.
If you count the Soviet-style Michigan primary where Clinton was the only one with her name on the ballot, all hell will rightly break loose at the convention. If the party wants to count Michigan and Florida, then it needs to hold caucuses in BOTH states. And my guess is that the Obama campaign would win those caucuses, which would be terribly hilarious. Then we'll see the Hillary campaign saying, "No, Michigan and Florida shouldn't really count."
The overwhelming consensus emerging within the Democratic Party is that Hillary Clinton has run a vile and disgusting campaign. The overwhelming consensus is that she has continually race baited. She has done unforgivable things like darkening the shade of Obama's skin, distributing a picture of him dressed in foreign clothing, and hinting that he's a Muslim. She is a pathetic, despicable person, and a bigot at heart. Part of me hopes she gets the nomination, so she can go on to lose 50 states, and be totally destroyed as a leader within the Democratic Party. It couldn't happen to a more deserving person.
2. Is Hillary Clinton Race Baiting or is the media pushing Sound Bites to suggest she is RACIST? I'll put money on the latter.
3. The jury is still out on the "DARKING" of a Black Man who is proud to be Black (which had no effect on the people Voting because Obama still pulled in VOTES in large numbers with WHITES. If anything he as brought in more. To suggest that by the Boogie Man or Boogie Woman's displaying Obama DARKER or LIGHTER Cheapens OBAMA, his Ability, his Appeal, his Politics and his Message. Again people are a lot smarter than that and being mislead into maddness on a bogus Ad is not even an issue.
4. The picture of Obama in traditional Kenyan dress had been floating around the Internet for months. I saw it way back in August of 2007. The fact the the Drudge Report posted it in 2008 doesn't make it NEW News nor a Clinton PLOT to bring down (Black) America.
5. Also, with that 1 picture (and there are many more out there floating around in the Internet), there are 100's of SPAM EMAILS about Obama being Muslim ( and being Muslim isn't a BAD THING unless you are bias against anything Non-Christian) since his days running as a State Senator. Back then, the Democratic Party, including the Clinton's supported and raised money for his campaign.
6. 5.5 million voters include the population of both States Michigan and and Florida. When you deny part of a State's votes, you effect the whole state not just Democrats. if Clinton was on any of the two States ballots, it was due to the Peoples Will. It would have been smart if the other candidates had made mention to those "people" not politicians disenfranchised. Which Clinton did and thus her support there.
7. Lastly, THIS IS POLITICS not American Idol or Big Brother House. You have to be just as hard on the Media (especially Newspapers that do not list sources) on what is reported and NOT reported. Obama is the FRONT-RUNNER and every single stumble he makes (and OBAMA did stumble by not running a STRONG campaign in Texas among other other things) you can't blame the "CLINTONS". That is the easy and most Obvious thing to do is you do not understand the dynamics of running a campaign.
Obama needs to reach out to the OLDER AMERICANS and those Latino and MILITARY Veterans that he keeps ignoring. Those groups are the SWING votes that are either voting for Clinton or McCain. He also needs to make an appeal to Catholic Voters whom bring in Big Numbers to Clinton. Instead of Preaching he has GOOD or BETTER Judgment, Obama needs to start talking about Current International Issues in detail and what He Will Do once he becomes President. neither Clinton or Obama has ENOUGH foreign policy experience BUT if you start talking about Foreign Policy, people will know you at least know the NAMES of the major players. That is why Coni Rice was brought on board to school Bush and partly how he won. Same with Obama, those on the fence do not feel he knows the World enough to speak to it.
That is why he lost Texas, Ohio and RH, not because Clinton is Racist.
I'm supposed to look out for the interests of a party that mistreats and humiliates its most electable Black candidate, all the while insisting that I'll accept it in the end?
No freaking way. I have some dignity and self-respect that I'd still like my kids to inherit.