The Beauty Of Irony: DNC Deciding Whether Or Not To ‘Count All The Votes’
Democrats consider Fla., Mich. delegate plans
WASHINGTON - Supporters for Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton staked out competing positions Saturday as Democrats searched for a compromise to seat disputed convention delegations from Florida and Michigan and clear the way for a smooth end to the marathon struggle for the presidential nomination.
In the opening hours of a daylong meeting of the convention’s Rules and Bylaws Committee, Clinton’s designated spokeswoman urged the panel to grant a full vote for each of Florida’s 211 disputed delegates.
“In life you don’t get everything you want. I want it all,” California State Sen. Arthenia Joyner said with a smile.
But moments later, Obama’s campaign called for half-votes for each of the 211. Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida said that marked an “extraordinary concession, in order to promote to promote reconciliation with Florida’s voters.”
The challenge is to “come together at the end of the day and be united,” Howard Dean, the party chairman, told members of the committee gathered at a hotel across town from the White House.
Obama is a mere 42 delegates short of the 2,026 needed to clinch the nomination, in the Associated Press tally, and appears on track to wrap up the party prize in the coming days. He intends to signal the beginning of his general election campaign next Tuesday by holding a rally in the arena in St. Paul, Minn., where Republicans will to hold their convention this summer.
Clinton, who picked up the support of a Louisiana super delegate during the day, trails her rival by about 200 overall. She has pressed to have the entire Michigan and Florida delegations seated, both to narrow the gap and to buttress her claim that she has outpolled her rival in the popular vote in the primaries and caucuses.
(AP)
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“The challenge is to “come together at the end of the day and be united,” Howard Dean, the party chairman, told members of the committee.”
WTF? So the challenge to the Dems is not to make sure every dem voters voice is heard and their vote is counted but to ‘be united’? I guess ‘be united’ is code for; it doesn’t matter which Dem candidate most Dems voted for as long as we stay united to beat the Republicans. If only the media reported accurately on these devious Dem clowns the general election wouldn’t even be a contest.
May 31st, 2008 at 10:40 amsuprise SUPRISE… just like in 2000.. they only want to count the votes for them,,, to hell with the military ballots that got thrown out…the world would be better off if they all would move to calif. and then sink into the pacific…
May 31st, 2008 at 10:40 amLet them eat their own and take it to the convention.
May 31st, 2008 at 10:51 amThis is giving me a rash. These folks can’t even elect one of their own without altering the laws of physics and they want to run the country?
May 31st, 2008 at 10:54 amBut I don’t see the Chad said the Sudanese democratic delegate. Where the Fu*k is it?
May 31st, 2008 at 11:51 amI’ve been watching this on C-Span live and it is pure delight. The Democratic leadership has found a big chad and hung themselves on it. Barak’s prepresentative, Wexler, is trying to promote “unity” at the expense of voter’s who voted in offical elections. “your vote should not count for the sake of unity…unprecedented in American history!!!
May 31st, 2008 at 12:13 pmThe American voter will not stand for it and will turn to McCain.
I caught some of it on C-SPAN too and what a fucking joke they all are. Kissing each others ass just before they stick a knife in their back.
May 31st, 2008 at 2:53 pm