Hillary isn’t happy with the MI delegate outcome..
May 31, 2008 by Dusty
I sat and watched all 10 friggin hours of todays DNC rules committee bitchfest. It wasn’t pretty and the actual
decision-making took place behind closed doors for three friggin hours, during which MSNBC did everything but ask their talking heads to tap dance for us.
The decision was seat both states delegates but only give each delegate half a vote. I think this isn’t a bad thing…its called a compromise. But Hillary isn’t happy about the MI part of the decision. She has already sent out an email directing her supporters to the following press release:
Harold Ickes and Tina Flournoy made the following statement:
Today’s results are a victory for the people of Florida who will have a voice in selecting our Party’s nominee and will see its delegates seated at our party’s convention. The decision by the Rules and Bylaws Committee honors the votes that were cast by the people of Florida and allocates the delegates accordingly.
We strongly object to the Committee’s decision to undercut its own rules in seating Michigan’s delegates without reflecting the votes of the people of Michigan.
The Committee awarded to Senator Obama not only the delegates won by Uncommitted, but four of the delegates won by Senator Clinton. This decision violates the bedrock principles of our democracy and our Party.
We reserve the right to challenge this decision before the Credentials Committee and appeal for a fair allocation of Michigan’s delegates that actually reflect the votes as they were cast.
Harold was a real jerk during the proceedings. His final screech was full of hate and discontent. All because Hillary lost four of the supposed delegates she won in MI. The operative word is “supposed”. The entire primary was ruled null and void before it ever took place. Carl Levin was particularly hateful when he bitched about Iowa and NH thinking it was their ‘god-given’ right to be the first elections of the Presidential silly season.
I know about Hill’s press release because I am subscribed to her site. You can keep your friends close…but you always keep your enemies closer 
I am so disgusted with this woman. She accepted the rules at the beginning of the game, way back before any primaries were held, then every time we go through an incremental part of the nomination process and it does not go her way, she wants to change the rules. Is this how should would govern if elected, change the rules in order to get her way… oh wait, isn’t that the Bushliburton SOP, changing the rules to suit their agenda, Hillary is just trying to carry on the tradition.
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What really chaps my ass is that the statement is in the names of the MI state Democratic reps. You know her team fed it to them hook, line and sinker BF. She doesn’t even own up to the words coming out of her headquarters.
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THis is what really chaps my ass, the facts:
Based on exit polls taken at the time, she would have received 46% of the vote to 35% for Obama and 12% for John Edwards. That means that, with Edwards’ endorsement, Obama would now be getting more Michigan delegates — and more of its “popular votes” — than Clinton. But because he honored the agreement and she didn’t, she now wants a one-sided agreement that rewards her behavior.
Fuck Ickey and his bullshit math. He had the audacity to say the DNC tossed out 600k worth of votes because they gave four of her “delegates’ to Obama…they obviously rely on their own fuckedup math. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
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Hill seems to tink she can grasp & claw at a win. Saw a great editorial cartoon re Hill yesterday:
http://www.ajc.com/shared-blogs/ajc/luckovich/upload/2008/05/clinton_campaig/mike05282008.jpg
Hillary’s worst problem— is Hillary.
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