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you know, i woke up early this morning to watch this meeting but then i had a party at 3. now, i know i missed out on the good parts, but i heard all of the proposals and arguments.

multiple people on the board felt that giving the uncommitted delegates to a candidate set a "new precedent" that gave party leaders too much power over the interpretation of a vote. it isn't my senator's job to tell me who uncommitted was, and i think the board was right on that.

so really, senator obama? you'd rather absorb the good will of thousands of edwards voters, biden voters, richardson voters, and act like they only wanted you?

you'd rather absorb the protest votes of thousands of angry voters who wouldn't claim a candidate in an election where the lead candidates (minus ours) decided they would pay extra money to be taken off a ballot?

you made that choice, and i don't know why you aren't paying for it.

69-59? please. this is a new precedent- a precedent of political manipulation working for our candidate the same way it worked for republicans in 2000, 2004, and multiple local elections.

congratulations, dnc. i'll see you in denver.

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hey
By Democrat in Antioch, TN Jun 1st 2008 at 1:09 am EDT
your anger is misdirected. Obama did not decide this. Others did. OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT!!
you don't know Obama very well do you.
By Vidya Jun 1st 2008 at 1:23 am EDT
Obama is a candidate who has sprung from the primordial slime of Chicago politics.

He has good lawyers.

You should have seen Obama in action in Chicago. He was too afraid to run against actual candidates, so he and his attorneys, actually had his competition removed from the ballot.

Can you believe that? What a complete turn off

It’s just gross.

Even more gross, are the people who call it good strategy.

Right.

The people of Illinois had no choice, but to vote for Obama, in the democratic primary. he took all their choice away. No one else was on the ballot to run against Obama, because of his expertise in ballot manipulation. Well at least he has expertise in something..lol

I call that the strategy of a dictator, not of a democrat.

It is just plain creepy.

I guess I am just not prone to brainwashing.
Re: you don't know Obama very well do you.
By Democrat in Antioch, TN Jun 1st 2008 at 1:27 am EDT
Please read up on Mrs. CLinton. and her beginning as a republican and her dealings in ARK. (whitewater) and everything else. Those in GLASS house should not throw stones. I never said he was without flaws please don't act as if she is the great hope this country needs, she is just as sad!
Re: you don't know Obama very well do you.
By charctine Jun 1st 2008 at 1:33 am EDT
and he is the great hope? i seriously doubt that.
Re: you don't know Obama very well do you.
By Democrat in Antioch, TN Jun 1st 2008 at 1:40 am EDT
did I say he was no.
Re: you don't know Obama very well do you.
By Nilla Jun 1st 2008 at 3:42 pm EDT
Whitewater?? How many millions of tax payer dollars to investigate? How badly they wanted to find just one thing to bring charges against them and NADA!

You people think we will all turn into good little robots and fall in behind a candidate that got his candidacy by bitter, divisive strategies that put Carl Rove to shame. No sir, we are the real democrats, the party of the people, and we will not take the many insults, constant misogyny and the selling of the election to a flawed candidate and just "man up". Not going to happen....and don't say it was our fault when you blow another election.
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Re: Google Alice Palmer and Tony Rezko
By Terry Jun 2nd 2008 at 3:13 am EDT
wright

only change is in o's pocket
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Re: If Obama was a good man
By Democrat in Antioch, TN Jun 1st 2008 at 1:25 am EDT
hey you. climb back into your hole. your a sad person who is missing some joy. I'll pray for you and everyone else should because you are disturbed.
  
What he asked for, he got.
By charctine Jun 1st 2008 at 1:32 am EDT
I find the fact that exit polls & illegal write ins = (imaginary)votes inexcuseable.
Re: What he asked for, he got.
By carmen. Jun 1st 2008 at 2:13 am EDT
apparently, the rules committee is more interested in a fantasy would-have-been election than cold, hard, data.
Re: What he asked for, he got.
By Sandi Jun 1st 2008 at 3:43 pm EDT
yep, and their idea of inclusion did not include any Hispanics on this Kangaroo Board.