Freak Show
This is your country:
This is your country on crack:
Democratic activists began a potentially explosive hearing Saturday on how to seat the Michigan and Florida delegations.
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Clinton’s campaign is calling for the results of the states’ primaries to be honored and the delegates awarded based on the results. That approach would help her chip away at Obama’s lead in pledged delegates because she handily won both states and would be awarded a greater share of the delegates.
Obama’s campaign disagrees, saying he followed the rules, took his name off of the Michigan ballot and did not campaign in either state.
Dozens of sign-toting, chanting protesters gathered outside the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, the site of Saturday’s events, to have their say on what the decision should be.
Some of the signs read, “Count our Florida votes” and “Rules, what rules?”
The Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws panel met behind closed doors for five hours Friday night, emerging at 1:30 a.m. Saturday without an agreement.
“It was a full discussion,” said Harold Ickes, a DNC rules committee member from the District of Columbia who supports Clinton. “I think there was some agreement on some issues and still some disagreements on others.”
Really. Wow, thanks for the analysis, Harold.
I can’t say how this will turn out except for this: somebody’s gonna sue. This ain’t over by a long shot.
In the meantime, sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. I’d suggest popcorn, but ethanol subsidies have driven up the price high enough already without our adding to the misery of the poor.