2000 Presidential Elections

Like salt on an old wound

I can totally imagine Ted Olson laughing his head off while writing about the impending bit of historical irony that's in the making by the Democratic Party :

Would the U.S. Supreme Court even take the case after having been excoriated for years by liberals for daring to restore order in the Florida vote-counting in 2000? And, would Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, the dissenters in Bush v. Gore, feel as strongly about not intervening if Sen. Obama was fighting against an effort to change a presidential election by changing the rules after the fact? Will there be a brief filed by Floridians who didn't vote in their state's primary because the party had decided, and the candidates had agreed, that the results wouldn't count?

In short, the way things are going so far, Sens. Obama and Clinton will probably be so close to one another in delegate count by the time of the convention that all those primary votes may be tabulated, but will turn out to be irrelevant to the outcome. Those 796 superdelegate politicians will decide who the candidate will be. Maybe no cigar or cigarette smoke this time, but back-room politics all the same. All those primary voters and millions in campaign expenses locked out of the room.

Now the question is, who's to blame?

Hillary Clinton has actually intimated that her voters are too lazy compared to Obama's. That would explain why they don't trudge through the snow to cast a vote for her Billaryness. And it would also explain why Billary kicked her campaign manager Patti Solis-Doyle to the curb.

Paul Krugman, who's turned into Billary's bitch, says in 'Hate Springs Eternal' that Obama is to blame. Yes, because as Krugman sees it, Obama is a Magic Negro who has Jewish leaders under his spell and has not voters behind him but a cult following of hatemongers who want to turn this country into a new Nixonland.

An ironic image given that Hillary Clinton was at one point a Nixon supporter.
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hmmm. i received this email from NARAL today. i'm not sure i like it much. there's just enough ignorance in it to piss me off. i mean, what century are we in that "latinos" and black women are the *only* women of color? what happened to asian, arabs and native women? and the three "pillars" that are being organized around, community control, holistic health, and positive motherhood, sound like they have been re-written by some over anxious white dude who doesn't want to piss off the white women who support NARAL (established women of color org's *do* organize around these things, it just sounds like the fierce women of color language has been co-opted). and the email title is as follows: " It's time to Recognize! the reproductive health needs of women of color". ummm, is it really time? forty years after women of color started organizing on their own because white women couldn't bear to make us a part of the movement, it is *finally* time?
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