What Counts?

Hillary Clinton: “This is democracy; everyone’s vote should count!” Here is part of her convoluted reasoning that the Michigan delegation should be seated with full voting rights at the convention. At the same time she says the delegates that were elected in other states primaries specifically to go to the convention and vote for Barack can change their vote if they think there is a compelling reason. What about those voters? Why is their vote less important than the Michigander’s? And the compelling reason? Nothing less important than that Hillary thinks she’s entitled to the nomination.

What about this whole notion in the Democratic Party of ‘Super Delegates’? If the majority of party members who got out and voted elected Barack why does Hillary think its OK to pull the election out from under them by appealing to the elite party ‘Super Delegates’? No less than the Republicans, the Democratic Party is run and the shots are called by big shot insiders. You don’t think Barack has big shots running interference for him? Think about Teddy Kennedy, is there a bigger party poobah in either party?

And the Rules Committee meeting? All those people outside (and inside) screaming that Hillary was cheated because she didn’t get all the Michigan delegates and trying to ensure Obama, who obeyed the rules set up by this two-faced committee in the first place, didn’t get any. Its sad to think that this is what the Democrats, the party of equality and liberalism, has come to.