Thursday, May 29, 2008

Rules are rules...except

when changing the rules benefits the Clinton Dynasty. Lets just be clear. Hillary Clinton did not decided to move up the primary in Florida or Michigan...neither did Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton didn't set the rules regarding the penalty for changing the date...neither did Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton agreed to the rules set forth by the DNC...and so did Barack Obama. When you are part of a group that sets and agrees to rules, your operation outside of those rules is ignored. People lets not forget that this is NOT the general election, these are party elections. While party elections are important the word disenfranchisement is not really a part of the equation. Now I'm not so unreasonable as to want the innocent citizens of Florida and Michigan to feel left out, but in THIS case is there really any REASONABLE solution? A reasonable solution would address three points: fairness to the candidates, fairness to the constituency (all states including Fl and MI), and most importantly fairness to the future as in what happens next time? I don't pretend to have the answer, but whatever happens SOMEONE is not going to be happy.

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