Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday rejected a compromise plan to seat Michigan's delegates to the national convention that would give 69 delegates to Clinton and 59 to Barack Obama.
"This proposal does not honor the 600,000 votes that were cast in Michigan's January primary. Those votes must be counted," Clinton spokesman Isaac Baker said.
The Michigan Democratic Party had approved the plan and intended to submit it to the Democratic National Committee meeting on May 31. Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer said in a statement that the plan was a "good step toward a solution that unites Democrats and ensures that our state will not face a McCain presidency."
Clinton's campaign has maintained that the delegation should be allocated according to the vote in the Jan. 15 primary (73/55) but Obama's campaign had argued the delegation should be split between the two candidates (64/64) because he was not on the ballot. Clinton won that contest with 55 percent of the vote but most of the other major party candidates, including Obama, had removed their names from the ballot because the state violated national party rules.
For reasons that I have never completely understood, having a candidate come to your state and kiss your babies and eat your food seems to make the people of that state more likely to vote for them.
So Barack Obama follows the rules of his party's nomination process and skips Michigan because he is told they are not allowed to participate in this election cycle. But Hillary ignores the rules and does whatever the hell she pleases by kissing their babies and eating their food, and now she wants to be rewarded for not honoring the wishes of her party by being given the states delegates on a silver platter to rescue her crumbling campaign.
And not only that she is unwilling to compromise on anything that does not give her enough delegates to steal the nomination away from Obama.
I am so past being tired of this woman I cannot even see straight.
Gryphen,
ReplyDeleteThis isn't on topic, but I saw it this afternoon and thought you'd be interested.
Here we go again:
Floyd Brown and David Bossie: Back in the Swift Boat captain's chairs
http://www.mediatransparency.org/default.php
(I tried to send the article, but it wouldn't let me)
She is despicable! If she were so het up about getting the delegates seated she would have accepted this compromise. It just goes to show that she is not fit to be president. How would it be if anytime she tried to get things done she refused to compromise? Oh yeah, it would be like it is now. Gridlock.
ReplyDelete( Blogger is having fits tonight)
ReplyDeleteanyways.....I think we all have had it...I would like to tell Hill and Bill Where to GO...
( by the way- Huffpost tonight- huge headline- Hill is in debt 25 Million...yup....that is a lot of mula)
Clinton agreed to those rules before the primary calendar was set, and then she broke them by putting her name on the ballot in Michigan and Florida.
ReplyDeleteGryphen,
ReplyDeleteThe Hillbots are in full-out self-destruct mode now!
Their on-line Bible, Hillaryis44, says we Obama supporters are "thugs" intimidating the Borg Queen's supporters (I don't know any Borg Queen supporters and I live in New York state!) and the Obama-leaning state of Oregon is "Birkenstock Nation" filled with hippies who shouldn't have the right to vote!
I almost -- almost, feel sorry for them. It's a pisser seeing your candidate crash-and-burn but that's what adults have to deal with in national races.