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Panatal wrote: I'm anything but xenophobic. If a territory doesn't get to vote in the general, it makes no sense to let it vote in the primaries. Israel is in may ways the 51st U.S state and my guess is that more Israelis identify with and support the US than PR residents, yet the Israelis aren't allowed to participate in US elections. The notion of a territory voting in primaries yet not allowed to vote in the general is absurd. They should either vote in both or in neither.--Panatal"
Your arguments about participatory Democracy would make more sense if the Democratic rules committee hadn't just taken four earned delegates from Hillary Clinton and awarded forty unpledged delegates to Barack Obama...who wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan!
Bulletin: AIPAC, one of the richest and most influential PACs, does, indeed, participate in our elections at Israel's behest. Some would even say that they participate a little TOO much in our elections.
As for cutting Puerto Rico or Guam loose, tell those in Washington to get off their collective butts and give both islands the choice.
