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Thread #110071 Message #2308730
Posted By: Genie
06-Apr-08 - 11:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: FLA Delegation Will Be Seated at DNC
Subject: RE: BS: FLA Delegation Will Be Seated at DNC
Bee-dubya-ell said [[[ No "election" in which potential voters are told that their votes won't count for anything can be considered fair. Turning around and saying, "Gotcha! We're gonna count 'em after all!" is even more ridiculous than saying they wouldn't be counted in the first place.]]] Nice, succinct way of summing up why Hillary's current stance is absurd.
Ms. Clinton just campaigned here in the Portland, OR, area, and I heard her speech on a local radio station. I have to admit that a lot of what she spelled out as her platform and how she would go about dealing with important issues, if elected, was very impressive. I was beginning to regain my admiration for her, both as a stateswoman and as a human being. -- Then she went into how she would make sure that the proud, worthy citizens of Michigan and Florida would not be "disenfranchised" by having those primary election results discounted. Not one iota of recognition of the kinds of issues Bee-dubya-ell and others have brought up or why COUNTING the results of those flawed primaries would, just as truly, "disenfranchise" as many or more voters. Hard to get past that kind of disingeniousness and self-serving twisted logic and see her as a real stateswoman with the best interests of her party or the nation at heart.