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Dem Resoluton to “Hijack Delegates” passes 19 to 8.
“I am stunned”
“Gall and chutzpah”
“You bet your ass!” (twice)
Ick….
So says Harold Ickes, long time Clinton loyalist and political operative who said of the motion to seat Michigan Delegates with each getting one half vote, it will hijack delegates and “is no way to seek party unity” and that Hillary “has instructed him to announce that she reserves the right to take the fight to the credentials committee”.
As unlikely as it seems, given clear past rulings that political parties can make up their own rules, it seems like the Clinton campaign will do anything to including taking a run to the Supreme Court, to the credential committee which will not be established until June, to the August convention in Denver in order to what? Ensure democracy? No.
To get the VP nomination or get openly rejected.
That’s all she wants now, so go ahead Barack, either take her as your VP or openly reject her so she and The Democratic Party and indeed the country can move on.
The motion passed 19 to 8. Some could not hear the vote due to hecklers in the audience, this time no doubt of Hillary supporters, although earlier Obama supporters acted similarly.
Wolf Blitzer immediately called it a “Soloman like solution”.
As a result, the nomination now requires a total of 2118 delegates needed and Barack now has 2050 and Hillary has 1877. As I earlier leaked, Obama will get the nomination, and remember you heard it here first.
Barack Obama will not get there with the voters delegates, he will require the some of the superdelegates to push him over to get the nomination. Hillary will claim that she has won the popular votes and this violates the parties principals.
How would she respond to this message in a phone call from the God Father, aka Al Gore, to tell her “it is not about you Hillary, it is about the Party”?
Biggest “Little” State Gives Hillary Campaign CPR
West Virginia was born of conflict as the only state to be formed by splitting a Confederate state (Virginia) during the American Civil War in 1863. The joke is that it is the largest state in the union if it could be flattened out but, it was no joke for Hillary Clinton on Tuesday giving her suffocating campaign CPR. Newsmax published on Tuesday “Clinton associates say there is still a ray of hope among some in her campaign that a ‘catastrophic’ revelation about Obama might make it possible for her to win the presidential nomination.”
Obama said he has visited 57 states. He also said that he has two more to visit: Alaska and Hawaii. But mainstram media failed to mention it. Imagine if John McCain had said it?
Suddenly sporting a flag lapel pin, Sen. Barack Obama, who eschewed military service, Monday emphasized his patriotism and support for a strong and humane military. He read a prepared speech to a crowd at the Charleston, W. Va. Civic Center leaving some there calling his comment puzzling by saying ”the true test of our patriotism is whether we will serve our returning heroes as well as they’ve served us.’ and again raising the question of why he did not serve in the military, and why he is suddenly wearing a flag on his lapel.
The remaining key question is whether Republicans will unilaterally disarm and waddle off into political oblivion cooking their collective goose. Pat Buchannan, seldom timid, thinks that the white flag has been ununfurled now that McCain has declared the Rev. Wright issues off limits and berated the North Carolina GOP for bringing him up.
Florida, Florida, Florida
The delegate count is beginning to slowly build up for Obama with the magic number clearly in sight for him. Although I don’t particularly care for him I nonetheless am beginning to breathe a sigh of relief. Why? Because I live in Florida and if Obama has enough votes without Florida then Clinton can’t drag this state into a controversial fight for the Democratic nomination.
After the last two elections there were people who absolutely hated my state. Yet to those of us living here it seemed extremely unfair. That whole business of hanging shads and miscounted votes happened in South Florida. Everybody knows that Palm Beach and Miami are partly populated with Yankees; retired New Yorkers, Bostonians and other northerners. It is also a haven for immigrants, legal and otherwise, who may not have a good handle on the English language. But it definitely isn’t representative of the rest of the state.
Nonetheless, Democrats blamed Gore’s loss on Florida, regardless of where in the state you lived. And their anger and bitterness ran so deep that when my state was hit with three consecutive hurricanes in 2004 causing terrible devastation across the state they blamed it on God punishing Floridians for the past elections. Excuse me? You try being huddled in a bathtub for hours on end while not one, not two but three hurricanes come tearing across your front door. There is nothing as unnerving as to suddenly lose power right after your local weatherman announces that the eye of the hurricane was over your hometown. Then as friends and neighbors are cleaning up and making repairs to be told by some scathing Democrats that you deserved it.
They were still angry at us in the 2004 election where Florida was one of the main reasons the Democrats lost, again. If this state is that important to the Democrats you would think they might be a bit nicer to us. But noooooo. After the ’04 loss many of them couldn’t stop saying how stupid we were to vote for Bush again plus to have a Bush as governor, too. I still don’t quite get that strategy. If you want someone on your side you probably shouldn’t call them stupid.
Now here we are in the middle of election season and my state is again in the middle of the debate because Florida leaders moved up the primary date against the party’s rules. The National Republican leaders said they would only count half of the Republican delegates while the Democratic leaders said that they won’t count any of the Democratic Florida’s votes. Even though over 1.5 million Floridians voted for a Democratic candidate they were told that not one of their votes count.
OK, that makes sense. You have a state that has been pivotal in losing the past two elections and you tell them that for this primary their votes don’t even count. I can’t help but think that the National Democratic Committee is still punishing Floridians because of the past two elections. Call it revenge for 2000 and payback for 2004 but I just call it very nearsighted. They will need these votes come November, yet why should the voters turn out for them since the leadership has said they don’t count now in the primaries.
Florida appears to at least have avoided being dragged into an internal party fight for their candidate. Obama Democrats continue to say Florida doesn’t count whereas Hillary’s team wants to count her votes from this state. There were definite signs that the two Democrat groups were going to once again fight over votes from Florida. But as I said up front, luckily it appears that Barack is now in such a commanding lead that even with our votes Hillary still won’t catch up to him. Whew. I feel almost as relieved as I do when a hurricane heading my way turns course at the last minute and goes out to sea. Yet even though we may have missed this one who knows what might churn up come November? I guess we Floridians will just have to hunker down and wait and see what roll we might end up playing this fall. But if we don’t vote for the Democrat’s candidate and they lose for a third time, just call it payback for counting us out in the primary….
Guamanians 4 Obama; Guamites for Hillary
Saturday Obama and Clinton split the Guam caucus. Guam elects 8 delegates and each cast half a vote for a total of 4. Guam is the only U.S. possession that also votes for president in November. However, since Guam has no electoral votes, the November presidential vote doesn’t actually affect the national outcome.
Tuesday, are the Indiana and North Carolina primary votes where the polls are drum head tight.
MCXCain already overwhelmingly won Guam.
Dem Delegates Don’t Rule? Huckabee Signs For Hollywood Comeback!
Rep and Majority Whip James Clyburn (D) South Carolina was asked by Wolf Blitzer of CNN if after the primaries are all over and the Super Delegates have voted, does that mean the Democrat with the most delegates will be the nominee?
NO. Not necessarily. Popular vote, current polls, number of states and other factors will determine the Democratic nominee. This is BIG news, but Wolf passed on it.
No?
Republican Huckabee recently signed on with a Hollywood talent agency, now I’m beginning to see why. Just because he gave up on the delegate vote does not mean he is out of the race to become the Republican nominee, most now presume to be McCain. No, I think telegenic and funny Huckabee is now going to work on “other factors” in order to make this the most entertaining election ever.
Howard Dean Clarifies
In an interview today with Tim Russert, alleged new foe of the Democrats, Howard “Dean conceded that there is no set criteria laid out for the superdelegates on how they should vote. “They have to vote with their conscience,” he said. “My personal view is that they should vote for the person who can best beat John McCain.””
Earlier in the interview he said he wants the Super delegates to commit by the end of June because if they go into the convention in Denver divided, they will come out divided. Further he said he has never seen the Super delegates go against the will of the voting majority. He was not clear how Michigan and Florida votes figure into that calculation, but said one way or another they will somehow be seated. That’s clear.
I wonder who he believes can most handily beat John McCain? He did not clarify that and of course it would be an egregious move if he did but it seemed he was making it clear that the Super delegates can meet their original mandate, that of preventing the majority from making “mistakes” as the Democratic leadership believed has happened in several past primaries that yielded Muskie, Carter and Dukakis.
I agree with Jeffry Tubin, legal analyst for MSNBC who said last week that if the Democrats can not take the White House in 2008 they should change their party name to the Whigs.