Barack Obama Covers Charlie Rich
And when we get behind closed doors
Then she lets her hair hang down
And she makes me glad that I’m a man
Oh, no-one knows what goes on behind closed doors.
Pardon the unpleasant images that may evoke, but it would appear that this convention won’t appear at all. Whether the rooms will be filled with smoke or with arugula we will never know. Cause we ain’t gonna see it:
Expect to see a roll-call vote at the Democratic convention tonight? Be prepared for disappointment, as Hillary Clinton’s delegates will have to do. Instead of a normal floor vote, the tallies will be taken before delegates arrive at the Pepsi Center:
Delegates to the Democratic National Convention are casting ballots for the party’s presidential nominee at their hotels this morning.
The vote, negotiated by the campaigns for presumptive nominee Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, is expected to speed proceedings from the floor of the Pepsi Center tonight, when totals will be read from the floor as part of a roll call vote.
But it is also leaving many delegates perplexed.
Some delegates were confused because Sen. Clinton was not expected to release her delegates until the afternoon.
“It doesn’t make any sense to me,” said Mary Sullivan, a Clinton delegate from Albany, N.Y. “I’m gonna vote for Hillary. I’m a Clinton delegate and she hasn’t released me yet.”
I heard a similar report about the Massachusetts delegation on the local NPR affiliate—and the reporter took pains to note that they weren’t too happy about the arrangement.
So what’s up with that? Does Team Obama fear embarrassment at the hands of the PUMAs? Perhaps they should, but rank cowardice is hardly the proper response. Why he can’t accept the truth of the historically close primary race as a strength, not a weakness, is beyond me. Locking Hillary and her supporters in the closet is hardly presidential.