Interesting take.

It would be correct to say that a married couple who holds a gun to the head of the political party to which they ostensibly belong and which, some would say, they even lead (at least the man) are treasonous. Now I just thought of James Carville and Mary Matalin, but they're not the couple I'm talking about.

A history of 'words' on the Michigan primary

It depends on what the meaning of to participate is

Hillary Clinton's campaign is extending its "Just Words" attack on Barack Obama to the fate of Michigan's disputed Democratic delegates today -- accusing Obama of backing away from his earlier statement that he would be "fine" with a re-vote in a state that risked losing all its delegates to the Democratic National Convention when it scheduled its primary for mid-January, violating national party rules.

The words that matter most on the subject, it would seem, are more than six months old -- from a pledge that Democratic campaigns agreed to last August and a Clinton press release announcing her support for that pledge.
The pledge reads, in part, "I shall not campaign or participate (emphasis added) in any state which schedules a presidential election primary or caucus before Feb. 5, 2008, except for the states of Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina..."

Today, Clinton's memo argues "Let's remember that the point of the early state pledge was to protect the role of the four states that held early nominating contests. Well the contests in those states were protected and the people in Iowa, South Carolina, New Hampshire and Nevada got a chance to vote... Senator Clinton signed the pledge and kept it... Senator Obama decided to go further and made a voluntary decision to remove his name from the Michigan ballot."

So the issue would seem to be, what does the word "participate" actually mean?

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

I couldn't hear the audio, but this afternoon at lunch the TV in the cafeteria was showing MSNBC. The little key at the bottom of the page said something like "CLINTON: NOT SEATING MI DELEGATES PUTS CANDIDATE LEGITIMACY IN QUESTION"

and I'm thinking, you know, if they were seated after their state parties broke the rules and one candidate took advantage of the situation, THAT would call the legitimacy of the candidate into question.

I'm with everyone else who just wants this over.

The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -- Ambassador Kosh

All Obama need to do is air Huckabee's video and McCain's defense of him and Wright!

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

Go to www.realclearpolitics.com. I've been watching it every day. His overall lead in the polls in the last two days went from 0.8% to 3%.

The media is making a problem where none appears to be.

He's on his way to the 5% bump I predicted. We should see that as early as tomorrow.

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

Hey, the big winner in all this is going to be McCain, with Nurse Lieberman standing by his side to help cover up his mistakes.

Anna, my dear, all I want to say is Hillery is not the one we all want to be our president.  I have never wanted her for that.  I am a poster here and have always wanted the most strong democrat to do that which is what we all need done now.  It is very imperative that we need to win this election and it has to be this year.  I was willing to vote for her and hold my nose, but now, now!  I am an independent democratic leaning person.  How can you change my mind now that I see her sending the middle finger to me for I am not in her camp like you and many others are that tear the other candidate down.  I thought you all were democrats.  I am serious.  What in the name of saving our country is she trying to do.  I used to go to other progressive sites to read and I find I am being left out yet again by the democrats.  I am so sick of this rumbling and tearing the dems down, that I think I will sit this election out if she is allowed to win with this nonsense.  For me she is not qualified to be my president...that is it...plain and simple.  She has not earned any thing that makes me trust her more than anyone else.  I do not respect her in the least!  She has failed in many aspects of her life and I do not let that go by my nose with out the smell test...hope you get my drift.
The dlc is not my kind of ppl and should not be any of our kind of ppl.  As far as I know we all are hard working ppl that pay taxes and do not know any millionaires...Anyhow....why do not you go to no quarter. or other places that think she is the only one qualified.  They simply do not give us credit for having our own thoughts on things...They want to dictate the conversation on why the other candidate is not qualified but can not really give her qualifications out for debate, lest they remove you from their friendships.  I am so ashamed of ppl like this.  Now I remember why I have not liked politics, ever.

We do have to look at this through the realistic views of all things considered.  Frankly I am sick to death of bill and all of his cronies.  I really am!  Now can you change my mind..you and all the rest of her followers......convince me she is the best....It will be a hard sell I can definitely tell you right now.  So go for it girl...

Anna, Hillary isn't winning in popular votes. She's not winning in states won. And she's not winning in the number of delegates won.

I suspect that the people who own the media want to have another friend like Clinton in the White House and will do whatever they can to make her the winner. I don't think that they can.

I just googled and found an article "New Polls Have Hillary Winning It All." It was posted on HillaryClintonNews on May 9, 2007.

Here's an interesting poll question:

Yes. That is exactly what's wrong with the MI legislation that would allow for this redo-vote. Anyone who did not vote in the Democratic primary last time could not vote at all in this re-vote. So people who stayed home or people who took Kos' advice and voted Romney in the Republican primary are screwed - disenfranchised. It's the Hillary funded and legislated redo-election. That's why Obama won't agree. It's just not a fair contest.

They don't really have a "job" but they created the designation for two reasons:

1. To be able to over-ride a McGovern-type candidate that implodes late in the game.

2. To get all Democratic officials of any importance an automatic voting role at the convention, without forcing them to compete for a delegate position against their local activists, who desperately want to attend the convention and represent the party. Before they did this, many elected officials didn't even show up.