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Obama Rules about rules

Thu, 03/20/2008 - 9:08am — vastleft

1. Rules are rules. Florida and Michigan primary votes should be ignored, because those states broke DNC rules and held primaries on forbidden dates. If we must pretend to the respect voters of those states, their votes should be allocated equally to the remaining candidates, thus rendering the votes meaningless. Why? Because rules transcend the will of the voters.

2. Rules aren't rules. Though the role of superdelegates is to vote for the candidate whom they believe will best serve the party and the country, that is not acceptable. Why? Because "the will of the voters" transcends any rules.

2a. The "will of the voters" must be assessed via a metric that's favorable to Obama.

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The disingenuousness is disgusting

By myiq2xu on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 10:00am

I am disgusted with Obama and his supporters over the way they threw all their principles (assuming they ever had any) out the window in order to ensure he would win.

My attitude has been "Fix the problem, not the election."

They act so smug and pious accusing Hillary of "doing anything to win" meanwhile they don't care about anything except winning.

"Winners never cheat, cheaters never win."

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Oh what a tangled web---

By kc on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 1:15pm

-very nice! and this from our highly educated!!

Once again, the boys will say that up is down.
This does indeed reinforce the argument that a democracy must have an educated populace.

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