This has been going on for a while. For those of you not paying attention or not in the United States. Basically, Florida and Michigan’s states legislatures passed laws moving their primaries to dates that violated Democratic Party rules.
There was no problem for a while on this topic until it became clear that the results of these two elections would effect the overall winner of the Democratic primary.
Today, the DNC is holding a hearing, under the rules and bylaws committee, on how to - and whether or not to - seat the delegates from these two states.
Unfortunately, with the politicizing of this discussion, the emotional and illogical reactions have underminded any effort to resolve this reasonably. Not only has the Clinton campaign and their supporters essentially stripped the national party of their power, they have stripped the party of its overall ability to function in such situations.
By turning this into a battle for the rights of voters, rights which the courts have unanimously and quickly decided don’t and have never existed, the Clinton campaign has both taken a gigantic crap on the legitimate right to vote, it has essentially made a mockery of the primary system.
With the ongoing hearings today, there will be nothing achieved but the further destruction of the Democratic party at the hands of the Clinton campaign. The campaign has achieved a tactical and pretty brilliant strategy. They have turned Clinton, on this issue, into a symbol of resistance to voter oppression when no such voter oppression has occurred.
Overall, I am simply dismayed at a few things. First of all - there is no right to vote to be discussed in this case. The DNC is not a government organization, they are a political party with rules and procedures.
Counting 0 votes for Senator Obama in Michigan, as the Clintons routinely do, is insulting to ANYONES intelligence.
For the Democrats to create some… invisible force of evil, while escaping responsibility for something their own party has created and long respected, is ridiculous. Again, this is an insult to any sane persons intelligence.
So, what do you think, and how should this be resolved?
Sanity and Pwns
michaelmee
Michigan, Florida, and a whole lot of Stupid
Posted by michaelmee on May 31, 2008
This has been going on for a while. For those of you not paying attention or not in the United States. Basically, Florida and Michigan’s states legislatures passed laws moving their primaries to dates that violated Democratic Party rules.
There was no problem for a while on this topic until it became clear that the results of these two elections would effect the overall winner of the Democratic primary.
Today, the DNC is holding a hearing, under the rules and bylaws committee, on how to - and whether or not to - seat the delegates from these two states.
Unfortunately, with the politicizing of this discussion, the emotional and illogical reactions have underminded any effort to resolve this reasonably. Not only has the Clinton campaign and their supporters essentially stripped the national party of their power, they have stripped the party of its overall ability to function in such situations.
By turning this into a battle for the rights of voters, rights which the courts have unanimously and quickly decided don’t and have never existed, the Clinton campaign has both taken a gigantic crap on the legitimate right to vote, it has essentially made a mockery of the primary system.
With the ongoing hearings today, there will be nothing achieved but the further destruction of the Democratic party at the hands of the Clinton campaign. The campaign has achieved a tactical and pretty brilliant strategy. They have turned Clinton, on this issue, into a symbol of resistance to voter oppression when no such voter oppression has occurred.
Overall, I am simply dismayed at a few things. First of all - there is no right to vote to be discussed in this case. The DNC is not a government organization, they are a political party with rules and procedures.
Counting 0 votes for Senator Obama in Michigan, as the Clintons routinely do, is insulting to ANYONES intelligence.
For the Democrats to create some… invisible force of evil, while escaping responsibility for something their own party has created and long respected, is ridiculous. Again, this is an insult to any sane persons intelligence.
So, what do you think, and how should this be resolved?
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