Posted on 08/26/2008 10:24:15 PM PDT by STARWISE
“Oh, I really couldn’t. I shouldn’t. Are you sure? Okay!”
My first convention to watch all the way through was Ford/Reagan in 1976. It seems to be a bit of that model. Albeit 180 out of phase.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Republican_National_Convention
That's why we need a copy of the rules that were adopted yesterday. Every delegate should have a copy, and the American public should have access too. That is fundamental to fairness of the process.
It's starting to look like Howard Dean and Barak Obama don't want people to know the rules of their nomination process. If so, it's a scandal.
Basically Barack Obama has the Democrat party by the throat, and there is a obvious and noticeable air of Communism in the way it’s run now.
Remember how the little b*tch won in the Illinois elections.
You know it makes me think back to that GREAT speech by Zell Miller, the Spitballs Speech in 04. Man, I WISH we could get another one of THOSE going! Maybe have Zell speak on the IDIOCY of raising taxes in the middle of a rough Economy! Heck I would PAY to see that!
Priceless!
“What’s up with that!”
A practice run for Hussein’s brown shirts. Just a sample of what is to come if he is elected. Censorship on every level. Hussein already has control of the MSM.
What would happen if the Clinton delegates just didn’t attend at all and didn’t cast their states vote...would Nobama still have enough votes to be the nominee?
If the Dems have slimed Hitlary out, even though she should have been the nominee just think what they will do if McCAIN wins the election....
The rules should state the minimum number of delegates who must be present to constitute a quorum. If a quorum is not attained, the vote cannot take place.
Excerpt:
Kathleen Krehbiel, Clinton's Iowa vote-counter, said she made up her mind to switch to Obama after Clinton declared herself an Obama supporter in a speech Tuesday night. Krehbiel said she believed most Clinton loyalists also were coming around, even if some holdouts needed the "closure" of voting for her.
"I did not want to see a floor fight," she said. "I don't see any further reason to continue to carry out a pretense that she's a candidate. She's not."
Not all Clinton supporters were on board. Sonja Jaquez Lewis, a Clinton delegate from Colorado, said she and others may walk out if Clinton is denied a roll call.
"If we don't have an official roll call vote, state-by-state, it is going to reopen a wound," said Lewis, adding that she would do whatever Clinton asks of her delegates.
DENVER, (AP) -- Less than an hour before the Democratic convention calls the roll of the states, Hillary Rodham Clinton began an emotional gathering with her delegates Wednesday by telling them she was releasing them as delegates to vote for Barack Obama. Many in the crowded ballroom yelled back "No!"Clinton told her delegates she's not telling them what to do, adding: "You've come here from so many different places, having made this journey and feeling in your heart what is right for you to do."
Donna Darko?
Hmmmm
bttt
Wooooooooo ....
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