http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:20:06 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/03/13/214414.php#comment-703072 Well... sadly enough, I rather suspect that it's going to be a mess no matter what is done, though it would be rather refreshing if the Democrats stuck to their own rules for once, and trusted the "party faithful" in those states to back whomever the rest of the Party chose-it would show some class and maybe that elusive quality of Honour that seems to be so absent this year from BOTH parties. 703072@blogcritics.org Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:20:06 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/03/13/214414.php#comment-702912 It would seem to me that the only way the dems could acknowledge the FL and MI delegates is if they had benn punished AFTER the polling, but clearly, since the polling outcomes were queered by announcing them as null BEFORE the polling, they are inadmissable. The dems have to stick with their decision or have an expensive do-over. 702912@blogcritics.org Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:32:07 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/03/13/214414.php#comment-702890 This proposal is a reasonable compromise. Clearly it is in the party's best interest to have delegates from Michigan and Florida seated at the convention. However, the results of their elections cannot be counted, since they were not conducted fairly by any reasonable measure. The party has the power to set its own rules for seating delegates. Michigan and Florida clearly violated those rules and cannot be excused by the party if the party is to maintain any authority. If the convention is tainted by a bloody credentials fight, the eventual candidate will be hurt irreparably, harming all the voters in states which did follow the party rules. 702890@blogcritics.org Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:10:06 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/03/13/214414.php#comment-702868 True to form, as we are witnessing now with the battle between Osama Obama and the most hated woman in America, Democrats and liberals never pass up an opportunity to rmeind the nation that yes, they are in fact far more petty, spiteful, vindictive, vapid, and power hungry for the sake of power than Republicans and conservatives are. Not that I mind one watching two different camps of moonbats wage war on each other. It's just that it would be so much more enjoyable if the GOP had actually picked someone that I don't loathe almost as much as I loathe Obama Bin Laden and Chelsea's mom. As far as Clavos's remarks about fairness......The only thing the Clintons and their minions consider fair are those actions which would put the Clintons back in the White House. In any event I think the Clinton's influence on American politics is in it's death throes. Either Hillary does not make it to the general or she does and loses to Mccain. Once America says no thank you to another Clinton administration they will be relegated to her having already reached the acme of her political career as a NY Senator and he going on speaking tours preaching to the choir that just couldn't get the job done for them in 2008. I also think that Barack Hussein Obama is tained blue state meat as well. Between his aversion to the American flag, his wife's anti-American remarks, his audacity of inexperience, and his admiration for a racist anti-American preacher he can never agin be taken seriously as a presidential candidate. So here's to the new American left. They can always be counted on to slit their own wrists. Hip hip hooray! 702868@blogcritics.org Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:23:20 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/03/13/214414.php#comment-701897 If the delegates from Florida and Michigan are counted under ANY scheme, it will be manifestly unfair to Obama, who observed the Party's rules to the letter in both states, and did not even set foot in either. Hillary, on the other hand, came to Florida a couple of days before the primary, and though she did not openly 'campaign" per se, she DID hold and attend several fund raisers, which were widely reported in the press (of course), and thus served to not only help raise her profile here, but also to raise potfuls of money. 701897@blogcritics.org Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:21:57 EDT