So - what do you think of the DNC going back on its word about FL and MI?
By Wendy
@jerzgirl (9384)
United States
May 31, 2008 7:24pm CST
Well, they've done it again. Said one thing and done another. Even if I don't agree that they should have the authority to deny any state the right to have its votes counted, the law and their charter said they could. And, that's what they did - they told Florida and Michigan that if they held their primaries early, their delegates wouldn't be counted. Both Democratic candidates agreed and supported this decision - BOTH!! Obama even went so far as to withdraw his name from Michigan's ballot! Then, Hillary began to lose - suddenly she was concerned about the "disenfranchised voters" in those two states whose votes wouldn't count. Funny how that wasn't an issue at the beginning of the year - only after she realized she might NOT be the nominee!
And now - the DNC has folded - has decide that their votes will count as half. Excuse me, but - OBAMA WASN'T ON THE BALLOT IN MICHIGAN!!!! Exactly which half would he be getting???? 
I am disgusted by their actions - I am disgusted by the fact that they allowed a sore loser to convince them to change the rules mid-stream (again, regardless of how stupid I think those rules were to begin with). This was an agreement based on their own charter on how they would handle state primaries - but when Hillary cried foul after agreeing in the beginning - after she realized she wasn't the "chosen one" she thought she'd be - they caved like the wimps that they are.
No - I won't vote Republican after this. Not hardly. But, someone needs to step in and dismantle this party - they are disintegrating before our eyes. It is no wonder they won't do anything in DC - no impeachment, no overriding vetoes, continuing to fund a war based on lies. It is time to dismantle the partisan system itself! It is too divisive and the animosities are too volatile. It's time to go another route. Or is it?
What do you think?
I am disgusted by their actions - I am disgusted by the fact that they allowed a sore loser to convince them to change the rules mid-stream (again, regardless of how stupid I think those rules were to begin with). This was an agreement based on their own charter on how they would handle state primaries - but when Hillary cried foul after agreeing in the beginning - after she realized she wasn't the "chosen one" she thought she'd be - they caved like the wimps that they are.
No - I won't vote Republican after this. Not hardly. But, someone needs to step in and dismantle this party - they are disintegrating before our eyes. It is no wonder they won't do anything in DC - no impeachment, no overriding vetoes, continuing to fund a war based on lies. It is time to dismantle the partisan system itself! It is too divisive and the animosities are too volatile. It's time to go another route. Or is it?
What do you think?1 response
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
1 Jun 08
The Democratic party is a disgusting farce. The same party that demanded every vote count in 2000 now decides it's ok to disenfranchise millions of voters in 2008. They have no right to call themselves democrats anymore. Just change their party name to communists or fascists because they clearly don't care about the voters.
Note: I am not insulting individuals who vote democrat, but referring to the party leaders and the DNC.
Oh, and about Michigan? That's the biggest farce yet. Clinton will get 69 delegates and Obama will get 59. So apparently these same morons are incapable of 1st grade math. ZERO does not equal 59 or 46% of the votes in any imaginable equation or formula.
Either way a vote for the Democrats is not a vote for democracy. They don't care about voters, and they clearly don't believe in the democratic process. How can you punish millions of innocent voters for a decision made by a handful of elitists?
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