DISQUS

Ad-Rock · 1 year ago

Not that this is shocking but it is baffeling. This could put Hillary in a position to win if she can muster a superdelegate defection amongst the Obama ranks. It is a risky move. Maybe the right move but risky.

nt · 1 year ago

It's too late, Obama. I will vote McCain.

sophistihick · 1 year ago

This is typical of liberal philosophy - make rules, then break them when convenient.

Bob · 1 year ago

Does Obama have any respect for rules?

The stated reason for the earlier compromise and disallowing of delegates was to punish states for early conventions.

Now that it doesn't change the outcome , let's disregard the rules.

Obama - the rule of law is important !

Meaning what you say and sticking to it - is Important !

What does this say to other governments about Obama's listening to treaties/agreements?

To me - it says Obama likes to make up and change the rules as things go.

What a bozo.

who cares who you vote for · 1 year ago

Its too late McCain I am voting for a winner (i.e. who cares who you are voting for?) You don't want a piece of this historic moment then quit whining and put your friggin vote in in private.

Bob · 1 year ago

One more thing -

Isn't it the Democratic party that determines this ?

Not Obama.

Obama is acting like the head of the party, when he is only a candidate .

Again - crowning himself emperor i.e head of the rules committee.

I don't wnat this guy making up and rules for me or crowning himself the head of my world.

roneida · 1 year ago

That is the beauty of situational ethics...there are no ethics, or standards, or rules. What do you mean by "is" . If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.

Democrats , liberals etc. can always be right because there is no right for them

Paul A. Hughes · 1 year ago

What a SAD FRICKING JOKE...



lowrider

jodi · 1 year ago

It has always been clear that both Florida and MI would count as full delegates which is why it was misleading for the media and Obama to pretend he was ahead in delegates when he was not and there by lead folks that just need to feel like they have voted for the winner to vote the false lead of Obama and therefore create a real although small delegate lead by June and a small loss in popular votes. It will not matter as far as Obama is concerned because Obama will never beat McCain. I will vote McCain and his republican ticket for the first time in my life due to the sleazy, racist and sexist campaign Obama ran.........we do not need another inexperienced liar in the White House as we have just lived through 8 years of that.

VOTE McCAIN 2008 and HILLARY 2012 True if Super Delegates had any ability to represent the voters then they would upset the convention by voting Hillary instead of Obama but this year has proven that the Super Delegates can not be trusted to work for the voters......they work for themselves.

Gene · 1 year ago

Maybe this has something to do with political strategy. He needs the Hillary Clinton democratic voters. I think this is a sign that she will be his VP. Let's face it and he has to face it also. She is a major political figure and she has him by the horns (with many political connections backing her up).

If he doesn't make her happy then she might try to make him miserably. I like Obama and I like Clinton. I'm not sure what she is doing behind the scenes but I respect her even more seeing this in the news. It, however, does make Obama a flip flopper on this issue. I really think most politicians avoid flip flopping because of the negative publicity for it. That is what leads me to believe that she is doing something behind the scenes and what you see in politics is not always what you get.

In all honesty, I just hope whoever is in office fixes the gas prices. I could just about cry whenever I have to fill the tank.

RABO · 1 year ago

Oh boy, here it goes... again...
Obama chooses to seat the delegates, and the idiots out there get fired up. If he had chosen to stick with sanctioning, the same idiots would be writing about how wrong that would be. There's no winning.
We are suffering terribly under the policies of an administration which suffers from a myopic view of the world. One so unyeilding in it's wrong-headed views that it would lead us to our own destruction in pursuit of tit's own misinformed policies.
Frankly, I think we deserve a president that can see things for what they are (not what his vice-president tells him they are) and be flexible enough to adjust policies and adapt to events as they happen.
There is a running 7 year intellect deficit in the White House. Let's fix that.

mark · 1 year ago

It is a purely symbolic gesture for party unity. Those who would vote McCain now and Clinton 2012 have no consistency or concern for their country.

Republican 4 Obama · 1 year ago

Obama will win in a Landslide. McCain is already acting desperate and its only August. 1 out of every 3 ads McCain runs mentions Obama. 90% of Obama's ads don't mention McCain. That doesn't even count the internet rumor mill that would be funny if so many morons didn't parrot these falsehoods as gospel.

rob · 1 year ago

OBAMA 08 !

Boo · 1 year ago

Jodi, I doubt that you have never voted Repulican before unless this will be the first time you actually vote. Are you scared a Black man might be President? Small minds are easy to scare aren't they Jodi.

jodi · 1 year ago

No Mark, those that would vote Obama over anybody have no concern for their country. Reality is that McCain is so close to democratic that John Kerry seriously considered McCain for VP......had he chosen McCain instead of Edwards we would have had President Kerry elected in 2004.

Obama has no experience, flip flops on anything and everything and in a very sleazy manner plays race and sex cards. We never need a President that would stand in front of a crowd giving a speach and stick up his middle finger while uttering the name of his female opponent. This man is trash and will not be elected.......he will not even win MA. If democrats really want to elect a democrat for President this year then the only way is to nominate Hillary. Hillary as VP would be the only way Obama would have a chance but it would be foolish for Hillary to accept the VP slot under Obama because she would then be blamed for every stupid thing he does and certainly would be blamed if he still lost the election with her on the ticket. Hillary should wait for 2012 and let Obama bury himself this year for good.....unless the DNC wants to nominate Hillary and allow her to pick a VP other than Obama.

Neil M · 1 year ago

Oh for crying out loud! Obama did not make the rules that stripped MI and FL of their delegates, and he's perfectly within his rights to call for the committee to reconsider its decision.

Oh, and those crazy, bitter, angry Hillary fans should remember that Hillary was first to ask for those delegates to be seated despite the rules by which she agreed to play. Therefore if Obama is being slippery he's merely perfecting the technique Clinton invented.

Jerry · 1 year ago

This is so simple. It's political expediency. Barack needs Florida and Michigan to win. Punsihing them may alienate voters in those states. If both of these states vote Republican he loses. Of course to anyone with half a brain, he's too immature to lead the country anyway. He vacilates on every thing. Rememeber his 20 year stint with Jeremiah Wright? His Louis Farakan connection and Tony Rezko? He'll do anything to get in office and he'll do anything to stay there. Have you heard that "Politics makes strange bedfellows." Well, Barack is a perfect example of a man who makes very bad judgments. Just look at his bedfellows. If he will change his mind every time the political wind shifts, what will he do as president. This man is a gutless wonder. We need a president with some guts to lead us in the times ahead. John McCain was not my first choice, but given that we now need to choose between him and Barack Obama, he is obviously the best choice for the country.

arthurW from VA · 1 year ago

Are almost all the above poster's naive or just dogmatically spirited. Obama is the defacto head of the democratic party- he is the presumptive nominee for President of the party. Historically the nominee drives the Dem or Rep party as far as the convention goes. There isn't a snowflakes chance in our Iraq that Hillary, with the full seating of the delegates, will now win the nomination. She has conceeded, the superdelegates have pretty much all gone Obama's way and there just is no going back. And do I smell a bit of a double standard with a black man acting presidential because he is presidential/smart/charismatic? I never head folks insinuating that Regan (who acted much the same/presidential) was being upidiy, "crowning himself emporer", elitist because he has been proven right on Iraq, right on talking to our enemies, right on the economy? Give it an hisotric break and embrace the best candidate for president.

jodi · 1 year ago

Boo: With a name like that I guess you are 3. I have voted every election since 1972 and always voted democrat. I also lived through the race riots in MA although I attened a Catholic School where there were only 6 blacks in my class of 840. I along with the majority of classmates voted and elected one of the 6 blacks for class President.......there has never been an once of racism in me. I also voted for our Governor Duval Patrick, a black man. It is Obama and not his skin color that will never get my vote. When November 5th comes the young folks will begin to see that democrats can not win without the heart of the democratic party which includes women over 35.......and no self repecting woman will vote Obama after watching the primary.

Boo · 1 year ago

Jodi, you're grasping at straws. The use of the middle finger salute is usually done with only one finger extended not two. Can you make your arguement without innuendo and the use of "Cards". Tax and Spend TAX AND SPEND. We've heard it before. Biggest deficit ever under Bush's reign. Wake up Jodi, the party is over.

Brahmin · 1 year ago

The Messiah of "Change" has spoken. Make it so.

Mim · 1 year ago

What determines a black candidate from ArthurW-va? Obama's mother was white. Look at his family tree, Arab, etc. Hopeflly, he is not running as a black person, but an American. Should another catagory exist, when the person is of mixed race?

Walter · 1 year ago

Just goes to show you that now that he utilized the DNC's rules to eliminate Hillary he wants to reinstate those states to use them for his own benefit. How arrogant do you have to be to show that once your opponent is taken care go after that one thing you used to eliminate them with. WAKE UP AMERICA AND DENOUNCE THIS FAKER. Should Obama win there goes your lifestyle as you know it because he's going to take about 7% of America's Gross income and distribute it over theworld.

sophistihick · 1 year ago

Political discourse has devolved. Obama is too liberal and his proposed policies will cause a deeper economic downturn. Eco 101- raise taxes on something(e.g. tax big oil) you get less of it at higher prices. And this is supposed to help the little guy? A free market society, something we still have to a degree, is the largest cause of our fredom and standard of life. Obama does not understand this critical reality at all.

fannie · 1 year ago

It's doesn't take much to time to observe the patterns that have been
occuring with Obama in this election. He was playing divide and conquer with the Big Boys, took his name of the ballot, and disrepecte the voters. Now that he is unlikely to win those states, he wants them to know that he now believe in one vote, one count, and that his priority is democracy. He divides by race, sex, religion, geographics, age, income, and party status. It further demostrates a lack in ability to handle issues that affect ALL Americans. His number one priority is not change, but to WIN no matter who gets pushed down in the process.

Republican 4 Obama · 1 year ago

The republican party use to stand for indiviual rights and small government. That is in the past. Walter where do you get this 7% bull. Seems to me Bush has given more than that to Iraq alone in order to rebuild what he broke. Economics 101 is for freshmen if I remember correctly. Take some graduate ecomomic class and you might understand that if you lower the taxes on the wealthy, raise the unemployement rate and increase spending you will have a record defict. Voila! Thank you class is over.

Brahmin · 1 year ago

Mim
The American Heritage Dictionary, Second College Edition,@1985, Houghton Mifflin. "mulatto n., pl. -tos or toes. 1.A person having one white and one black parent. 2. A person of mixed Caucasian and Negro ancestry". p.820
Technically, Senator Obama is the first Mulatto candidate for President. Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm was the first Black candidate for President. People should remember this wonderful and caring woman, and not diminish her memory.

Andy · 1 year ago

Obama is ASKING the DNC to change their rules. It is well within the rules to ask the DNC to change their position. I appreciate that the headline is worded as if it were a command, but sometimes it doesn't hurt to read the article before commenting.

An even better solution, I believe, is to remove the DNC from direct involvement in the election process.

jodi · 1 year ago

Boo Boo: Anyone that missed the middle finger event or pretends to see something else is really not smart enough to vote and is certainly who Obama is speaking to......those with not enough sense to know they are being used for his gain and certainly not your gain.

VOTING McCAIN 2008
VOTING HILLARY 2012

Gene · 1 year ago

LOL!!

I'm with Jodi for once. We never need a President.

Let's vote for Communism in 08.

Nice job on the english there, Jodi. You are the moron of the day.

margaret · 1 year ago

And JUST WHO IS THIS ARAB, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA? ? ?....Ah! ! !...'JUST' a Candidate for the Democratic Party! ! ! Maybe with this move HILLARY will become the DNC's NOMINEE! ! ! Barack! ! ! YOU ARE NOT THE HEAD OF THE DEMOCRATICE PARTY...nor ARE YOU OUR 'GOD'...with the church association that you've had for the past 20 years...you're not even a REAL CHRISITAN! ! ! JESUS was for ALL THE PEOPLE! ! !..NOT 'BLACK LIBERATION FUNDAENTALISM'....which believes in 'BLACK ONLY...AND BLACK FIRST! ! !...So, we're afraid that you'll have to join your FATHER, WHO HAD AT LEAST 3 WIVES AT ONE TIME....or your grandfather...who HAD EIGHTEEN WIVES AT THE SAME TIME! ! !...in their ARAB, MUSLIM WAYS! ! !

TIME FOR HILLARY TO BE WHERE SHE SHOULD RIGHTFULLY BE! ! !..AND PUT IN THE TIME TO BE THERE!

NOT SOME 'UNKNOWN'...who only has a past with AMERICA-HATERS! ! !...and pretends to be another JFK...when JFK was on Capital Hill for a total of 13 years before he ran for the Presidency...and was PROUD TO PUT HIS HAND OVER HIS HEART FOR THE PLAYING OF OUR 'NATIONAL ANTHEM'! ! !...and was a NAYV-MAN who was part of the military...NOT SOME 'COMMUNITY-ORGANIZER! ! !....whatever THE MEANS!!!...Sound like a radical UNION Leader to me! ! !

Gene · 1 year ago

Margaret, don't make things up. Check your facts if you believe that trash.

~ www.snopes.com ~

RegularJoe · 1 year ago

Margaret,

Regarding your medication, you need to either cut it in half, or double it. Your current dosage doesn't seem to be working.

Wow, some people's kids...