Obama campaigning in Florida? Against pledge?
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Obama may have violated the four state pledge by holding a press conference in Florida on Sunday. I say "may have" because it is not clear to me exactly what the pledge prohibits. But an article today in the Tampa Tribuine indicates that Obama "appeared to violate" the pledge.
The article goes on to say that Obama seemed not to know he was violating the pledge. Was this a mistake? Is answering several questions from reporters the same as holding a press conference? Does promising to seat Florida's delegates if he is the party's nominee constitute campaigning?
TAMPA - Barack Obama hinted during a Tampa fundraiser Sunday that if he's the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, he'll seat a Florida delegation at the party's national convention, despite national party sanctions prohibiting it.
Obama also appeared to violate a pledge he and the other leading candidates took by holding a brief news conference outside the fundraiser. That was less than a day after the pledge took effect Saturday, and Obama is the first Democratic presidential candidate to visit Florida since then.
Obama and others have pledged not to campaign in Florida until the Jan. 29 primary except for fundraising, which is what he was doing in Tampa.
But after the fundraiser at the Hyde Park home of Tom and Linda Scarritt, Obama crossed the street to take half a dozen questions from reporters waiting there.
The pledge covers anything referred to in Democratic National Committee rules as "campaigning," and those include "holding news conferences."
The article goes on to say that Obama seemed not to know he was violating the pledge. Was this a mistake? Is answering several questions from reporters the same as holding a press conference? Does promising to seat Florida's delegates if he is the party's nominee constitute campaigning?
PURGE your leadership, in these states, because they are not in it for the Democratic Party of your state.
RaNk and file Dems know this already, just read up on WHO in Florida is pushing this mess, it's not the rank and file, but, quite transparently and self-admittedly, FLORIDA DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERS!!!
Trace em' back folks, and see if you can't find some old party-changers or uber-conservative Demos from yesteryear, have worked their way back into authority.
Let's see if Howard Dean will do something about this. I bet he will. If he does not, the pledges mean nothing.
Third party over here baby !
HOPE. (Hope monger)
SINCERITY. (Integrity hero)
Someone's 'HOPE-' no one noticed, or HOPE-ing he can talk his way out of it? This kind of reminds me of when Richardson said he wasn't a blow dried candidate...a clear jab at Edwards about him paying for a flight to have his hair cut. They've all promised not to attack each other disrespectfully, but they are showing their TRUE COLORS.
Thanks for heads up.