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Watch Detroit burn if Clinton goes 'nuclear' with Florida, Michigan delegations
Mlive.com ^ | May 05, 2008 | Susan J. Demas

Posted on 05/07/2008 7:19:30 PM PDT by Red Steel

As if Detroit couldn't get much worse, riots could break out there as early as May 31. But a Democratic operative tells me I'm being premature; the real fun will start around Aug. 26.

Allow me to back up a few steps. I first reported on April 21 that Hillary Clinton could take more than 70 percent of Michigan's delegates and then wrote a column that made its way to Newsweek and NPR.

On Sunday, Joseph Edsall, Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, published a blockbuster piece, Clinton Camp Says It Will Use The Nuclear Option. That refers to both Michigan (hurrah) and Florida:

"Hillary Clinton's campaign has a secret weapon to build its delegate count, but her top strategists say privately that any attempt to deploy it would require a sharp (and by no means inevitable) shift in the political climate within Democratic circles by the end of this month.

With at least 50 percent of the Democratic Party's 30-member Rules and Bylaws Committee committed to Clinton, her backers could -- when the committee meets at the end of this month -- try to ram through a decision to seat the disputed 210-member Florida and 156-member Michigan delegations. Such a decision would give Clinton an estimated 55 or more delegates than Obama, according to Clinton campaign operatives. The Obama campaign has declined to give an estimate.">

Not surprisingly, the Clinton camp insisted today, "There is no secret plan."

However, were she to launch such a plan, she would alienate Barack Obama's base -- throngs of young voters and particularly African-Americans, long taken for granted by the Democratic Party.

If Clinton wrests the nomination from Obama -- especially in such a dramatic power grab -- look for trouble in cities across America. That could start on May 31, but more likely would hit a tipping point when the Democratic National Convention begins in Denver at the end of August.

Detroit, already a racial tinderbox over the mess with Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's eight felony charges, will likely explode.

A nuclear option, indeed.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: fl2008; hillary; mi2008; obama
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To: Red Steel
Hillary will truly be hated for doing this. The selfish little power obsessed prig that she is. The lying shrew should have never signed the DNC Rules agreement if she intended to run in these two states.

But, she's well versed in doing one thing while saying another. Such a pandering politician hasn't any principles other than one, all for me.

21 posted on 05/07/2008 9:03:51 PM PDT by harpo11 ( Hillary Wags the Rev.)
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To: Wil H

Detroit burning again. No loss.
That’s what they get for letting the communists (Mahaffey, Henderson, Vaugh, Cockrell, etc. and crooks wreck a once decent city. And you can throw in their communist representatives and arab-ass-kissers Conyers and Dingell and that coward Carl Levin (The KGB thanks you for your key to the city that you gave them in the 70’s).

Detroit - the new rustbelt of America, and well earned.


22 posted on 05/07/2008 9:49:55 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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