Their weird reasoning:
- You should be glad you even got that as Obama had the votes (by a margin of one) to split MI by 50/50, which is what he wanted and would have passed – this is true, but just because he had them in his pocket doesn’t make it right. They are suppose to rule based on principles and ethics, not partisanship.
- The reason why they reached this “magnanimous compromise” was because the Clinton supporters on the committee, realizing how this would look, implored them during that private 3 hour lunch meeting to reconsider for the sake of party unity and for the necessary win by a Democrat of MI in the general.
- the best these idiots could come up with besides 50/50 delegate proportioning? 69-59 and stealing 4 Clinton delegates for a person not even on the ballot. A person who at most, probably only received half of the 40% uncommitted vote as Edwards was polling really high in MI. To second-guess the actual voters, to hijack another candidate’s delegates, to use exit polls to determine actual elections while negating those actual elections, to substitute one’s own judgment as to how many actually MIGHT HAVE voted or stayed home, is ridiculous and completely undemocratic.

That, Obamabots is why we say you are devoid of reasoning, of ethics, of morality, and most importantly, of the true principles of what comprises America — democracy.

“Robert Gibbs, a senior aide, did not rule out the possibility that Obama will seat the Michigan and Florida delegations at full strength if he is the nominee.”

He said this on ABC’s “This Week.”

It was more strongly worded in an earlier report, by AP.

Myself, I thought there would be an appeal and wanted to see how it went before making noise.

The appeal has, at long last, happened. And now I’m making noise.

I’m just strongly disappointed in him over the RBC/FL thing.

Thanks. I don’t have a link to the Tarpley piece.

http://bucknakedpolitics.typepad.com/buck_naked_politics/2008/05/michigan-dems-w.html

Saying ‘theses votes don’t count’ in FL and MI only acknowledged the DNC said they wouldn’t count but in no way conceded, they would never count. I figured, the DNC just wanted to prevent other states from moving up their primaries. And, for the most part, it worked! As far as I can see, even without considering whether FL and MI votes could be fully restored under exceptions to the rule, the DNC had no need to punish them for voting early, now, anyway! Only, evidently, the DNC had something else in mind than just the primary calendar. Indeed, Donna Brazille now admits that, the votes from Florida, her home state, will count, in full, at the convention, so the delegates from these states can vote for the man the SD’s have already named as the nominee.