Democratic Primary

[Mink]

This is as embarrassing as listening to one of georgie bush's speeches. Honestly, the party has its' rules, period. When Michigan and Florida decided they wouldn't follow them.....they are lucky they are getting half a vote.

Republicans can sit back for now. Hillary has empowered her followers to behave like sore losers. I believe she will take this to the credentials committee, but why?

[The New Guy]

by god, that lady is a borderline republican! good for her. i believe she represents a whole LOT of dems who are pissed off that obama is about to be selected and not elected.

her parting shot was absolutely right........mccain will be the next president.

[The New Guy]

Jun 1, 2008 2:13:47 GMT -5 Mink said:

This is as embarrassing

yep, you're parting is definitely embarassing itself in a major way!

Honestly, the party has its' rules, period. When Michigan and Florida decided they wouldn't follow them.....they are lucky they are getting half a vote.

and if you were a clinton voter in MI or FL who never had a choice in the matter would you still feel the same?

Hillary has empowered her followers to behave like sore losers. I believe she will take this to the credentials committee, but why?

go hillary, go! actually, the MI and FL voters should be the ones taking it to the credentials committee.

[Mink]

Jun 1, 2008 10:29:51 GMT -5 The New Guy said:

by god, that lady is a borderline republican! good for her. i believe she represents a whole LOT of dems who are pissed off that obama is about to be selected and not elected.

her parting shot was absolutely right........mccain will be the next president.

She is behaving like a bush Democrat. Of course she has her followers who can't admit that she just hasn't made the case Obama has. Unlike bush, Obama already has been nominated, not selected.
She can rant & rave until the bitter end and I believe she will, but it won't win her the nomination. The numbers aren't adding up in her favor.

[Mink]

Me:
"This is as embarrassing as listening to one of georgie bush's speeches. Honestly, the party has its' rules, period. When Michigan and Florida decided they wouldn't follow them.....they are lucky they are getting half a vote."

TNG, if you're going to respond to my statement, taking a partial portion changes the meaning intended

As for If I were a Clinton supporter in MI or FL...would I still feel the same?

I would question my state for not following the rules. I would question why Obama's name wasn't on the ticket or why he didn't campaign in the other.

I like the Clintons, but she took advantage of this rule, knowing the states disregarded them......now she uses the voters to complicate the primary. Like I said, this is embarassing.

[The New Guy]

yep, it's embarassing alright. with a fiasco like this how can one ever expect the democrats to run the white house?

[subdjoe]

So, Mink, you are saying that the arbitrary rules of the DNC are more important than the peoples votes. and the will of the people in the several states. I see.

[jgaffney]

This is from The Hill:

Seconds after the 30 members of the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee finished their vote on how best to seat the delegations from Michigan and Florida, the room erupted.

“DENVER! DENVER! DENVER!” supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) chanted. Then they walked out of the hotel ballroom and declared that this was no longer their Democratic Party, and that they would never vote for Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) if he wins the nomination.

“John McCain has just been elected by the DNC, and it’s a sad day,” said a teary-eyed Debbie Weihl, a teacher from Pennsylvania.

There's a famous saying that, if your opponent is busy shooting himself (or herself) in the foot, the best thing to do is get out of the way.

[subdjoe]

Jun 2, 2008 18:05:00 GMT -5 jgaffney said:

This is from The Hill:

Seconds after the 30 members of the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee finished their vote on how best to seat the delegations from Michigan and Florida, the room erupted.

“DENVER! DENVER! DENVER!” supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) chanted. Then they walked out of the hotel ballroom and declared that this was no longer their Democratic Party, and that they would never vote for Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) if he wins the nomination.

“John McCain has just been elected by the DNC, and it’s a sad day,” said a teary-eyed Debbie Weihl, a teacher from Pennsylvania.

There's a famous saying that, if your opponent is busy shooting himself (or herself) in the foot, the best thing to do is get out of the way.

LOL, no, the best thing to do is to throw them more ammo!

[The New Guy]

you're absolutely right. the DNC along with rev. wright, father pfleger, bill ayers, et. al. are going to get mccain elected.

the sad fact is that the DNC will blame it all on racism claiming that america is still just too racist to elect a black man (when in reality, america is just not ready to elect a black man who happens to be associated with some serious racists, domestic terrorists, and also is bent on his socialist/marxist beliefs) but mark my words, somebody's gonna say that on the first wednesday in november.

[Mink]

Jun 1, 2008 22:20:55 GMT -5 The New Guy said:

yep, it's embarassing alright. with a fiasco like this how can one ever expect the democrats to run the white house?

Hey, look who's leaving??!!

[Mink]

Jun 1, 2008 23:55:32 GMT -5 subdjoe said:

So, Mink, you are saying that the arbitrary rules of the DNC are more important than the peoples votes. and the will of the people in the several states. I see.

Rules are rules and if 48 states complied, so can 2.