3 posts tagged “howard dean”

Get this spin that is beginning...  Hillary Clinton said if it would help the Democratic Party she would be open to a VP spot.  That's it, that's what she said...  and she is being declared EVIL as I type.  One guy just said "This is Obamas night how dare her steal his spotlight"  Seriously he said that.  I think it was on Fox.  David Shuster was salivating on  MSNBC, maybe his leg was tingling also.  Blitzer is on in a few minutes, I'm sure his leg is thrilled.

I'm not sure of her exact quote because no one has mentioned or reported on one.  I don't need one, I'm sure someone asked if Obama was the nominee would she accept a VP slot and her reply was along the lines of, if it would help the Democratic Party win the election in November she would be open to the possibilty.  It doesn't matter because it will be spun as Hillary is evil.   Frankly, I'm tired of this crap.

Here is the one line meme that created the uproar:

From the Associated Press:  You can clink the link but no reason this is the entire report!!!

WASHINGTON (AP) — Clinton tells New York lawmakers she's open to being Obama's vice presidential candidate

I just ran across this story...

Florida delegates sue DNC over primary votes
Reported by: Don Germaise
May 22, 2008 12:54 pm

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL -- Three Florida delegates, including the state's Senate Democratic leader have filed a federal lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee claiming the DNC violated their constitutional rights by barring them from the party's national convention...
 
The litigation takes aim at three essential issues:
 

1. The DNC broke its own rules by not investigating the events that led to Florida's ealy vote before punishing the state.
2. Even though Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina also broke the same party rules by moving up their primaries, they were not sanctioned as Florida was, but were instead granted a waiver by the DNC from any such penalties.
3. As the controversy unfolded, the DNC maintained that Florida should have held a post-primary Caucus. Doing so, Geller argued, likely would have resulted in only about 100,000 votes being counted, a tiny fraction of the 1.75 million voters who turned out in January, while at the same time, completely disenfranchising Florida Democrats in our country’s military serving outside of Florida.

I think FDR said it best.  I wonder if Howard Dean and the Democratic National Committee would agree with him?

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group,”
Franklin D. Roosevelt