Under the DNC rules, which were available to and know by all the candidates prior to a singe vote being cast in the Rodham-born fiasco, the most- that's the maximum, the biggest, the very most most for you idiots- that could be awarded to the two intransigent states. The committee had it in's purview to give them nothing. That's what they'd earned. Don't hand me that self righteous bullshit about "count every vote", as if there had been actual free and fair contests. That never happened. It didn't come close to happening. but if you want to help McCain screw the country, kill soldiers and Iraqis and Afghans and God only knows who else, defile the environment, appoint judges who will overturn roe v wade, then here's a hearty kiss my ass on your way out the door. Grow the fuck up. A lot of us have been disappointed along the way, and it's not about one candidate. It's about turning the country from its disastrous course. Billary could have won- she had a huge lead, unmatchable name recognition, and the inside track with the party insiders. She got whipped, straight up. That crap about staying out of the kitchen if you can't take the heat was just for Obama, I guess. She sure as hell can't take it. What an utterly selfish, mean spirited (e.g. Harold Ickes yesterday), mismanaged, overdrawn, and bungled campaign. I wonder if she has the capacity for grace, for acceptance, for putting the party and country ahead of her ego. Nothing to this point has indicated that. It's all about her, all the time. Michigan doesn't count. Now it does. She deserves all the delegates, with the remainder uncommitted. Sod off. You morons would have been happy in East Germany or the Soviet Union. One name per ballot, and party unity from gulad to shining gulag. You don't give a goddamn about America or the Democratic Party or the democratic process. IT's fitting the advocates for billary ended up with half a vote; they have half a brain, which is significantly more than shawnie baby or the rest of your bleating sheep.

Wasn't Harry Bonehead Hicky making an impassioned plea for "uncommitted"? An even bigger crock than "if it doesn't fit, you must acquit". What the Michigan delegation came up with was generous to billary, who left her name on the ballot "accidentally" because the results "wouldn't count". Stone cold hypocritical bitch to the bone. Three more super delegates for Obama today. Total needed to clinch is now 40, maybe less. See ya tomorrow. Wednesday is Dead Woman Walking Day. Chill the champagne.

all the candidates agreed- that's ALL, as in including even billary- that the results of MIchigan and Florida would be void. Nonbinding. Wouldn't count. Didn't matter. All the candidates, Booger. Now that the Red Queen of Pantsuitia is going down for the count, Icky Harold and the drones (a one hit wonder in the seventies) say the results of primaries that did not occur, in beauty contests that were to have no weight- none, zero, zippo- in choosing the nominee, should count just as if they were as valid as the other 52 jurisdictions that followed the rules. Screw her. She's lucky to have gotten delegate one from either state; but, as an olive branch, they gave her the majority in both states. And you're acting like it's 1964 again. Bullshit.

and all with the same dreary drone about half votes for half wits.

If Rodham bow out with sufficient grace- not groveling or sniveling or begging, which I highly doubt are in her bag of personalities- and begin, almost immediately, to act as an aggressive surrogate attacking McLame everywhere on every issue. I could swallow her being on the ticket. If she gives a tepid concession and goes back to NY to pout, a pox on her. It's entirely up to her. She took an insurmountable lead and got mounted, but she has a considerable following, and is a better campaigner than she was six months ago. Let's see what she does, what she says, and how she says it. She doesn't need to kiss his ring. I don't think he wants or expects that subservience. That would be harmful to her supporters, and to the party. As Al Green put it, let's stay together.

false dichotomy, fran. the fascists played winner take all in every primary, a process designed to limit the field and to ensure nomination without too much messy democracy. Our process, God knows, needs to be redesigned, but it needs to be done so in such a way that not only the rich well known candidates have a chance. An early, national primary would essentially obliterate any long shot candidate. Are we really that impatient, that five months of campaigning makes our ADD little brains go all haywire? The order in which the states vote- by tradition, Iowa and New Hampshire, has been around a long while. Maybe the deck needs to be reshuffled. But I do think the primaries need to be staggered over a period of months. Candidates grow, or shrink. The word vetting is in vogue. Putting together a campaign staff, a fundraising strategy, an approach to the whole process, is one measure of executive acumen. Artificial in some ways, yes, but it is an intense, challenging thing to go through. But the Presidency is not for the faint of heart either. I have long favored public financing of campaigns, but until we reach that utopia (don't hold your breath), we need to redesign the primary process, not blow it up.