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Hillary has consistently stood up for the voters of Michigan and Florida. She, like you, has insisted that the voice of all Americans be heard. Today, the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee announced their decision on seating Florida and Michigan’s delegations. In recent days, almost 350,000 of Hillary’s supporters wrote in to the committee to make clear what an important principle it is for our party to count every vote.

Our campaign has released an official statement about the results of the Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting and I’d like to share it with blogHillary readers. I know how passionate Hillary’s supporters are about the importance of counting every vote cast in Florida and Michigan and I hope that they continue to express their feelings with the respect and thoughtfulness they’ve shown during the course of this campaign.

Harold Ickes and Tina Flournoy made the following statement:

Today’s results are a victory for the people of Florida who will have a voice in selecting our Party’s nominee and will see its delegates seated at our party’s convention. The decision by the Rules and Bylaws Committee honors the votes that were cast by the people of Florida and allocates the delegates accordingly.
We strongly object to the Committee’s decision to undercut its own rules in seating Michigan’s delegates without reflecting the votes of the people of Michigan.
The Committee awarded to Senator Obama not only the delegates won by Uncommitted, but four of the delegates won by Senator Clinton. This decision violates the bedrock principles of our democracy and our Party.
We reserve the right to challenge this decision before the Credentials Committee and appeal for a fair allocation of Michigan’s delegates that actually reflect the votes as they were cast.

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Here’s what I thought about the event

Watching this meeting this weekend was definitely like watching not just a party train wreck but almost like watching the party behead itself.  If the Democratic Party was a student driver, they couldn’t even get an auto insurance quote let alone a policy to save their lives after that display of ineptitude.   That said it seems like its pretty much check mate for Hillary Clinton.

So, I am paraphrasing Harold Ickes who represented Hillary Clinton at the DNC Insiders meeting to pick the next Presidential Nominee today.His response made it clear that Hillary Clinton takes issue with the DNC taking her delegates away from her and giving them to Barack Obama, along with a 55 delegate bonus in a state where Barack Obama had his name on the ballot and then took it off just before voters went to the polls to vote.

The thing about this speech, it seems to signal that Hillary Clinton does not plan to drop out of the party and run as an independent at least, but the summer is still young and the media seems to be starting in on the serious efforts to do a hatchet job on Barack Obama’s past.
CNN was running some very eye opening investigative reports on Obama this evening, which might get some muted play in bars around the country this weekend as bar tenders channel flip between games the tv mounted on the walls, but it doesn’t seem to get any air time during more high profile programming times. But even that is probably going to have less negative impact on Obama than his latest Pastor problem and his subsequent resignation from Trinity Church.

It would almost seem that the media pumped Barack Obama up like a giant, only to then see how big of a crash they might make if they fell him.

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The more I watch this clip, the more annoyed I get with the Democratic National Committee. The tone here just offends me on so many levels. Its like the DNC is doing us a favor. They are doing us a favor by even offering us a chance to vote at all.
I get the feeling that the insiders in the DNC in Washington are running the DNC like their own personal club and have forgotten that this party was founded as the peoples’ party.

Its this half baked philosophy of taking something away from people and then doling out a portion of it that enables Republicans to time and again trounce on Democrats. The Democrats are their own worst enemy sometimes and today, the Democrats worst enemy just kicked their ass ends all over the field.

If this were a Rocky Balboa match, Rocky would have been knocked out before the first round ever started by banging his own head into a wall repeatedly while single handedly managing to get everyone in the entire city laid off from their Philadelphia jobs at the same time.

I see this as the potential beginning of the end for Democrats. It feels as if they are committing DNCuicide. There are huge problems in politics in the Republican Party, but the DNC managed to prove this weekend that they can stand toe to toe with Republicans and be just as bad, if not worse.

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My Response to Tony Katz. Attempting to describe my views of Barack Obama’s recent actions. I am definitely not impressed with Obama.

I think it its also somewhat ironic that Obama said he could no more disown Wright than he could the Black Community.
Well it only took him 4 days to disown Wright when Wright came out against Barack, so where will that leave the Black community a year from now if they grow to dislike Obama.
If another hurricane hits New Orleans will Obama be any better than George Bush? My gut tells me that he will be just about the same.  I suspect that the only reason why he sometimes seems to know what way the wind blows is because he has a better set of wind chimes in the form of pollsters and strategy people.

Its not difficult to collect a general consensus of the right way to talk to people to tell them what they want to hear.  Its a lot more difficult to choose to do the right things at the right time to achieve the right result.

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