Obama’s Fake Unity
By SusanUnPC on August 5, 2008 at 10:45 PM in Barack Obama, DNC, Democracy, Democratic National Convention, Florida, Michigan, Rules and Bylaws Committee
From the IOwnMyVote newsletter.
Part I – The Restoration
Senator Obama has announced with a magnanimous flourish that he would, in all his beneficence, call for the Credentials Committee to restore the votes of Florida and Michigan delegates to 100%. If you recall, when we left off at the Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting on May 31st, Florida and Michigan had 100% of their delegates seated, but only with 1/2 vote each. Sounds like the Party is healed. Right?
Wrong. Remember that the fury that emerged at the end of the Rules and Bylaws Committee Meeting was not over the 1/2 vote penalty. People were outraged because the RBC threw out the results of the popular vote, which gave Obama no delegates, and replaced them with an amalgam of exit polls and other data, giving Obama all of the “uncommitted” delegates and hijacking four of Hillary’s, effectively handing the race to Obama.
Obama’s play for unity on Monday did nothing to change that absolute corruption of the democratic process.
Part II – Everybody Agrees On the Platform
The Irish Times coverage of the Platform Drafting Committee Meeting that took place this past weekend in Cleveland, reported, “Heather Higginbottom, an Obama policy aide and a member of the drafting committee, said that Clinton’s official representatives helping to shape the platform have asked neither for a healthcare mandate nor gender-bias language.” Kumbaya right? Of course not.
Do you really think that after all we’ve been through that nobody spoke up to influence the drafting committee to include language addressing gender bias and incorporation of mandates as part of any plank concerning universal healthcare?
I Own My Vote did. I Own My Vote assembled the results of theVirtual Platform Committee Meeting as of last Thursday with the names of 1351 participants and a copy of the I Own My Vote Pledge, and distributed it to every member of the drafting committee. Among the platform planks we submitted were ones calling for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, denunciation of gender bias, and inclusion of a mandate in any universal healthcare plan.
Party rules state that the platform is open to public comment until the platform committee votes. The Obama campaign’s effort to pretend there is no dissent is offensive. When the campaign calls for input and 1,351 people speak as one, it doesn’t matter whether Clinton’s official representatives ask for particular language or not.
We will work to amend the platform if no such language is included.
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