harry reid and howard dean have a secret plan to end the primary battle

And Al Gore gets the nom.

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A lot of people I talk to share the opinion expressed in this recent article (full article linked below.) Here's a snippet:

"The fact that Hillary is still fighting gives us a big clue that this is not about the voice of the people at all. It’s about raw power and the manipulation of a system that is already loaded, unfair, and byzantine to try to reach a desired outcome, will of the people be damned. The Clinton’s campaign spin – that Obama can only win in “boutique” states, that caucuses don’t really count, that he only appeals to “latte liberals,” not “real” Democrats and “real” American voters – ignores the hard reality of the numbers, which is that she is behind in this contest by any objective measure and is more than likely to remain so to the end.

Her suggestion that some votes are more “real” than others follows an inglorious tradition in this country of trying to exclude certain groups from participating in the political process at all – blacks, newly naturalized immigrants, Catholics, factory workers, reformist intellectuals, and so on. The Clinton campaign even appears to have embraced the overtly racist aspect of this tradition, distancing itself only hesitantly from Geraldine Ferraro’s outrageous remarks about Obama’s candidacy and apparently calculating that, in Pennsylvania at least, awakening the racist sensibilities of all those blue collar former Reagan Democrats might have political mileage.

Granted, the crisis in the Democratic Party is not just about Hillary’s overweening ambition and distasteful campaign tactics. The party has been trying for decades to rig the primary process in such a way as to insulate itself from unpleasant surprises, and now it is receiving the biggest conceivable karmic kick up the rear end."

Full article link.

This type of dialogue really brings out the best in you, PJ. I can't understand why more aren't willing to participate.

Obama is NOT trying to disenfranchise two states - that is a pure Clinton talking point (could have been written by Carl Rove).

The local parties and state governments of those states disenfranchised themselves by not obeying the party rules for the primary process. Obama has stated clearly that he wishes for there to be a fair resolution to this situation, and you can not blame his campaign for trying to ensure a fair process, especially when he obeyed the rules (and wasn't even on the ballet in one state) while the Clinton machine tries to rig them.

This situation is a mess, but I have real buyer's remorse for my early Clinton support. I've seen some sell out ideals for power, but I've never seen someone so nakedly sell out their own party - well not since Lieberman. Should she win the nomination, I'd be surprised if she got any support from the black community. I really don't know if I could vote for her. See link.
Clintons Have Crossed the Final Line (Daily Kos)

Oh please, all this Cinton negativity is really hypocritical.
I'm not disagreeing with any of it, but to imply that Obama is somehow a more upstanding candidate is just false.

They both want to win and they both play dirty.

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"he is the only one who can save our souls."

Jewel must be delighted that someone finally answered her question.

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"Obama is NOT trying to disenfranchise two states - that is a pure Clinton talking point (could have been written by Carl Rove)."

No - both campaigns had to agree on how the revotes would work - and by his demands that could NEVER BE MET he effectively stopped any chance of it happening. Obama claimed one thing while , through his lawyers, doing another. I'm really beginning to hate that passive/aggressive twit.

COUGHbull****COUGH

marc you realize that the state legislature was the one that had to make the decision on the revote right? A state legislature that NEITHER hillary nor obama are a part of. So it is simply a Rovian talking point being employed by Hillary.

The truth is- if they revote they will split the votes (and delegates) very closely to 50/50- as they have in just about every primary.

It's not a "Rovian talking point"--that's another silly meme.

It's a fact that Obama's lawyers did everything they could to PREVENT revotes from taking place in either state.

Obama supporters are in denial that their candidate can do anything Machiavellian.

HELLO? He's a politician too.

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We'll never know now, will we?

We would have, had Barack's lawyers allowed every vote to be counted.

Now neither Hillary or Barack has the 2,024 delegates.

There can be no uncontested delegate lead, no uncontested popular vote lead and no candidate without a brokered convention.

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Updated On: 3/26/08 at 01:19 PM

the more i see of them, the more i think the country might benefit from having the bammy voters sit out the election. they seem to be predominantly inclined towards criminal stupidity.

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