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DNC delegate fighting to keep credentials
News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:11 PM EDT
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A Democratic National Convention delegate pledged to Hillary Rodham Clinton says she hopes to fight off an attempt by Wisconsin Democrats to take away her credentials because of her past statement that she would vote for John McCain if Clinton wasn't the nominee.
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{"commentId":2067543,"authorDomain":"spiffie"}
Honesty, it seems a little petty. I would try harder to win her back over, acknowledging her feelings (which were doubtless running high near the end of the primary season), and see if she can't be engaged to campaign for Obama.
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#1 - Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:01 PM EDT{"commentId":2069000,"authorDomain":"jeff-theriault"}
Nah! backstabbers are routinely shown the door, rhetorically speaking out of both sides of my mouth there.
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{"commentId":2069340,"authorDomain":"spiffie"}
It was a dumb political move. If they had talked to her, addressed her concerns, and won her over, the story would have been "Clinton supporter who vowed to vote for McCain won over by Obama." Instead the story is "Democratic party goes after Clinton supporter." It's just dumb politics.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":2067568,"authorDomain":"arcanebliss"}
She's such a joke. I have friends who support Clinton passionately and even they think the woman is a joke. lol
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- 4 votes
#2 - Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:04 PM EDT{"commentId":2067962,"authorDomain":"john-55"}
If one truly believed in the issues that Hillary was fighting for, there is no way that you could even make the switch to McCain's positions. Additionally her statements about voting for the other ticket is vicious and very shallow. If she could be persuaded by a comment from a relative to vote the other ticket, then one must surmise that she is not only shallow but spiteful in her thinking.
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- 1 vote
#3 - Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:51 PM EDT{"commentId":2068003,"authorDomain":"canddkelly"}
{"commentId":2068383,"authorDomain":"lpwillham"}
If ONLY the superdelegates had a backbone, we could nominate someone who could actually win in November! Oh well everytime we go to far left we lose!
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- 1 vote
#5 - Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:48 PM EDT{"commentId":2068412,"authorDomain":"osaide"}
Are you ready to eat your shoe when he wins? I am if he looses, i will post pics.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":2068485,"authorDomain":"arcanebliss"}
Barack Obama won the pledged delegate and popular vote count.
Also, the updated electoral map is in his favor.
Furthermore, the Dem base happens to be larger than the Pub base.
{"commentId":2068485,"threadId":"300835","contentId":"1618588","authorDomain":"arcanebliss"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":2068809,"authorDomain":"lpwillham"}
Gore lost in 2000 and Kerry lost to Bush's second term after WE all should have known better.
Hate to say it but it doesnt look good.
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{"commentId":2068871,"authorDomain":"arcanebliss"}
You completely ignored my post.
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":2602240,"authorDomain":"renatanicole"}
Thanks Arcanebliss for posting those links. I knew that I had seen where Obama did get more votes.
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{"commentId":2069556,"authorDomain":"djb4356"}
it is obvious this is a power play by the dem's , so if they want to play hardball and not try to ein votes by talking about the problems we are facing and instead scare people to get their vote!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
good luck
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#6 - Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:14 PM EDT{"commentId":2069828,"authorDomain":"tracysheenporter"}
The fact is the woman signed a pledge card to vote democratic. Then decided her word was worth nothing when she didn't get her way. I voted in the primary for barrack Obama. I would however never support McCain. I also find it amazing that someone would work to be a national convention delegate when she from her own words knew nothing about what that entailed. If she didn't do her homework before the fact that's no-ones fault but her own.
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#7 - Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:03 PM EDT{"commentId":2070793,"authorDomain":"nichols2927"}
No the paper would have read ( Wisconsin Democratic Party tries to convert Covert McCain Supporter)
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#8 - Sat Jun 28, 2008 12:54 AM EDT{"commentId":2071616,"authorDomain":"jmbbeatty"}
same old politics at work. Oh isn't that what Obama says about McCain. What a joke the DNC is. The United States is in the mess it is in because we the people won't stand up for what we believe in and just let things go in every aspect of our lives. Everytime a rapist, child molestor or murder gets a slap on the hand, every loop hole in the laws we just say that is the way it is. Why don't we unite for what is right and take back our country. We settle for their couple of candidates and pick one to run our lives. We all really know that neither one is probably the best to represent us. So my hats off to her for standing up for what she believes and bucking the system. If she doesn't feel Obama is the best candidate to represent her she should vote for the one she feels is. Thank God some woman have a backbone because I haven't seen to many men with one.
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#9 - Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:09 AM EDT{"commentId":2073268,"authorDomain":"arcanebliss"}
John McCain is the complete opposite of Hillary Clinton.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":2092098,"authorDomain":"osaide"}
Ha don't waste your breath preaching logic arcanebliss, the post above just makes me shake my head because it lacks none, zero, nada, no logic. Really does make you wonder.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":2072052,"authorDomain":"esmithda1"}
I agree, that her emotions were high and she probably spoke in the heat of the moment. However, She should consider attending the Republicans convention if in her heart she cannot support the democratic nominee.
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#10 - Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:43 AM EDT{"commentId":2073261,"authorDomain":"arcanebliss"}
If she supports the Republican platform, she never really supported Hillary Clinton.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":2073473,"authorDomain":"cbnboy1974"}
You missed the whole point of the article, it has nothing to do about Baracks impression which obviously isnt too shabby given how many votes he did get during primaries.
Second , it becomes obvious that this lady was a Repulican to begin with and was only voting for Hilary because she was a women, and there is nothing wrong with that personally, however, i think she really knew the rules before hand, so whats the point of keeping her delegate status if she has no intentions on voting for Obama????
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- 2 votes
#11 - Sat Jun 28, 2008 2:03 PM EDT{"commentId":2089661,"authorDomain":"superman2001"}
Right. And again, just so no one misses the point, this is not about silencing her vote. She can vote for whomever she chooses, but she doesn't have an inherent "right" to be a delegate at the DNC. So rather than trying to force her to vote for Obama, she needs to step down and do whatever she chooses to do in November. But there's no reason to have a Republican supporter at the Democratic National Convention. That's just backward.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":2076484,"authorDomain":"rick99"}
This lady is no more a Democrat than McCain cheer leader Joe Leiberman. Both ought to be given the boot. If they want to vote for Republicans and another four years of what we've muddled through for the past eight years, they the Republican party would be happy to sign them both up.
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