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Sat 16 Feb, 2008 10:45 am
Betty Bowers, world's greatest christian :wink:
February 14, 2008
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2008 Expect Dirty Tricks and Detours on the Road to Denver
As Jesus and I were discussing yesterday over a lovely bottle of Petite Sirah, neither Democratic candidate looks likely to get enough delegates to clinch the nomination before the DNC Convention. This means that the road to Denver is going to be loaded with tricks, gambits and cases of TNT that will likely explode in the detonator's face.
A lagging Hillary, playing a cagey Wiley Coyote to Obama's serene Roadrunner, just named the latest anvil she intends to drop. She is going to lobby (which is how polite people spell "sue") to allow the Michigan delegates to vote. Since Michigan (along with always troublesome Florida) was penalized for violating the rules of the DNC (and, in Florida's case, also the rules of good taste), nobody thought their vote mattered, which was rather nostalgic to anyone in America who voted in 2000.
Indeed, in a lovely touch Dick Cheney could only dream of (and, believe me, he does), Hillary was the only name on the ballot. How wonderfully Stalinist!
The problem the DNC has is that it has dawdled too long in deciding what to do about naughty Michigan and Florida. If the DNC was going to seat delegates from Michigan and Florida, the procedure for doing so needed to be agreed upon before it was known which candidate would be helped the most. If the DNC does anything now, it will just look like what it will, no doubt, be: dirty politics aimed at derailing a legitimate nominee. And it will leave an unsightly stain on the legitimacy of the ultimate nominee.
Hillary, used to unsightly stains, won't be bothered by that, but other Democrats should be. Maybe in lieu of a vote the Michigan delegates can be given a lovely corsage to wear at the convention. And the Florida delegates can get more flattering lighting for television ?- and tips from patient stylists on how not to look quite so noticeably Floridian. That should make everyone ?- except Hillary ?- happy, no?
There is one thing about the Michigan and Florida delegations. They are not bound by any vote in those states. Hillary could get them reinstated and they could vote a majority for Obama.
parados wrote:There is one thing about the Michigan and Florida delegations. They are not bound by any vote in those states. Hillary could get them reinstated and they could vote a majority for Obama.
I'm not totally clear on that part, but I don't think so.
Quote:"Those were the rules, and we thought we had an obligation to enforce them," Ickes acknowledged today on the call even while trying to convince members of the media that Florida's and Michigan's delegations should not only be seated at the convention, but should also have full voting rights and that delegates should be allocated based on voting that took place in those states -- even though in Michigan, Obama's name did not even appear on the ballot and uncommitted got 41% of the vote to Clinton's 55%.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/02/16/671358.aspx
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