Monday, March 10, 2008

Obama, Clinton, Michigan and Florida: How To Show You Should NOT Be President

This weekend the Democratic Party was confirmed as last week's deserving recipient of the weekly "Flying, Fickle Finger of Fate."

But I continue to be amazed at the lack of OUTRAGE at the two main Presidential contenders in one of our two major parties CONSPIRING to derpive the citizens of two major states of the right to vote.  Whatever the end result of the controversy over Michigan and Florida, it can't change the fact that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton (along witht he other Democrats running for President) CONSPIRED to make sure that Florida and Michigan voters did not have a right to a meaningful vote.  It was NOT just Joward Dean and the DNC.  So Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama deserve a share of the Flying, Fickle Finger of Fate.

Obama and Clinton AGRRED to a pact not to campaign in Michigan and Florida.  If they had not CONSPIRED to make this gagreement--along with most of the other Democrat candidates--the DNC would have had to back down.   If EITHER Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama had refused to go along with this, there would have been no way to ultimately deny a meaning to the votes of Michigan and Florida.  But Obama and Clinton were perfectly willing to enter into an agreement that effectively deprived the voters of Michigan and Florida of their right to vote.  Even if the election had not turned out this close, that was unconscionable.  It should disqualify both Obama and Clinton from serious consideration for anyone's vote for President of the United States. If they are willing to treat voters this way, and deprive voters of their right to vote, then voters (not just in Michigan and Florida) should know who does NOT deserve their vote.

Look at what happened in the Republican nomination process.  There was EXACTLY the same problem with Florida and Michigan "breaking the rules".  There was some talk of not campaigning there, and depriving them of their delegates.  But the Republican candiates REFUSED to enter into the kind of agreement that Obama and Clinton entered into--the agreement which deprived DEMOCRATS in Florida and Michingan of their right to a meaningful vote.  Meanwhile, REPUBLICANS in Michigan and Florida did have the opportunity to cast a meaningful vote.  The fact that republican candidates insisted on campaigning in the states meant that the Republic National Committee had no opportunity to make the terrible mistake the Democratic Party made.  The RNC HAD to recognize the votes in Florida and Michigan, or look ridicuous (as Obama, Clinton and the Democratic Party looked ridiculous by depriving the voters of two whole states of their right to vote). 

The RNC saved face, and paid lip service to the "rules", by taking away half of the delegates from Florida and Michigan.  But the votes COUNTED, and the voters of those states were allowed their say.  In fact, the voters of Florida probably decided the GOP nomination.  

It was NEVER defensible to deprive the voters of Miching and Florida of their say based on the "rules".  As I have pointed out repeatedly in this blog, Democrats have consistently taken the position that you have to bend the rules to avoid depriving people of the right to vote.  Obama--THIS ELECTION--went to Federal Court in Ohio to try, with partial success, to get a court order to keep the polls open beyond the legal closing time for the stated reason to avoid disenfranchising voters.  Yet Obama and Clinton AGREED to a conspiracy that disenfranchised the voters of Florida and Michinga.  There should have been OUTRAGE at this from the beginning, and not just now.  I said something to that effect at the time, in this blog.

Hypocristy, thy name is Obama.  Hypocrisy, thy name is Clinton.  Hypocrisy, thy name is Democrat.

Problem:  If Obama and Clinton deserve to be excluded from consideration for President, as they do, then who does that leave?  Right. John McCain.

That is why this election is fun for me.  I believe that John McCain will be a disaster for conservatives, and the country,  if elected President--despite his clear advantage in qualifications.  I can't vote for him.  But I certainly can't vote for Obama either.  And I will vote for Clinton only because she is so horrible that I have high hopes she would revive the conservative movement all by herself.  So it is a "no lose" situation for me.  I can have fun.  Sure, it is also a "no win" situation.  But the worst has already happened.   Now it is just a matter of enjorying the stupidities of this election. 

The greates stupidity so far has been the way the Democrats--with malice aforethought--deprived MILLIONS of votes in Florida dna Michigan of the right to a meaningful vote.   For that alone, voters should reject the Democratic Party, and its candidates, as being unfit to run the country.

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