I'm hurt!

Since when does only one side get to have all the fun?

LOL

Yet the Clinton one just down the list is a-okay, huh? You guys crack me up. Heh. At least I can appreciate the humor and keep a somewhat unbiased look at these things.

Most of us are pretty cocky and secure. We're just waiting for this thing to end.

But in the meantime, it's occasionally worth it to mock the silly arguments coming out of the Hillary camp.

the truth is the Obama campaign has been lying about the actual DNC rules and his supporters are blindly believing him. Regarding MI and FL, if you read the rules and actual transcripts of the Rules and Bylaws Committee meetings where both states were discussed, you would learn that the rules intend, encourage and lay out several roads to resolving timing disputes so the delegates get sat. During the RBC hearings, committee members said we realize that although we will enact these sanctions, we realize that we cannot permanently disenfranchise both states and expect it to not have disasterous consequences in Nov.

Also they would realize that Obama not being on the MI ballot in way impacts the validity of the MI results. The actual rules make the candidate responsible for putting their name on the ballot AND KEEPING IT THERE. In the RBC transcrips reps from the MI Dem Party said they BEGGED Obama not to remove his name from the ballot (the DNC neither asked or commanded anyone to do so) The told him that the primary will go on and many MI voters will feel slighted if he removes his name. The transcrips also indicate that he removed his name to please Iowa rather than anything related to the DNC or the Delegate Selection Rules.

Also according to the actual DNC rules Obama has not yet won and will not be able to win without the support of superdelegates. The actual rules command the superdelegates to exercise an independent vote for who they think will be the strongest candidate and allow them to use whatever reasoning they feel best. Why are the Obama supporters so whiney and petulant insisting that the supers must ignore the DNC rules and vote according to the popular vote when that was Obama's biggest lead and then switching positions after TX where they now do not mention the popular vote but insist only the lead in pledged delegates should matter.

No one on the Clinton campaign has threatened retribution against supers who support Obama. there are a number of long term very progressive Democrats who will be facing primary challenges by whiney Obama supporters who are throwing temper tantrums because these elected officials used their own best judgement and decided to support Hillary.

Clinton's position on FL and MI has been consistent since Sept 07. Obama's keeps shifting depending on the polls or current delegate/ popular vote.

Are you saying this inscrutable diary has something to do with Hillary?

What are you talking about?  Something about rule-changing?  Please enlighten me.

Hillary is Nashville and Obama wants to screw the people of Michigan and Florida.

When you use metaphors to make a point you need to make sure it can't be used against you.

to mock a another member who was clearly mentally unstable, at least at the moment.  Most people thought it was funny, but of course it was just cruel attention getting and juvenile.

... this diary, below.

You don't like my humor. How shall I go on?

Where were you when Clinton supporters posted this analogy with names reversed? I bet you think that one was okay, though, huh?

I am crying now. I can't find my blankie.

This is just a response to the previous diary (linked above) that linked the campaign for POTUS to the very same game, though obviously using the analogy in Clinton's favor.

If these two diaries have taught me anything, it's that sports can be used as an analogy to prove just about anything, even both sides of the same debate.

... Obama has declared "academically ineligible"...

1. It was their state parties and elected officials who made their votes "academically ineligible."

2. The DNC imposed the sanctions on these states, not Obama or his campaign.

3. All candidates knew the rules and agreed to abide by the rules.

I will wager that the Michigan and Florida delegations will be seated at the conventions.

If this diary really is "spitting in the face of party unity," then so be it.

I look at it as a humorous response to Newport News Dem's diary, below.

But we all have our own feelings!

Oh, wahhhh.

If you can't take a joke...

c'mon,

It is those who are calling for a retroactive rule change who are threatening party unity. Winning dirty like that would guarantee the Republicans the White House.

Humor is an exceedingly gentle way of dealing with such delusional spin/crap.

... electoral season, Kansas would have to be down nine with a second to go, needing the NCAA's first-ever nine-point basket to tie the game. (Or an eight-pointer plus a foul.)

and then, at half time the coach tried to put in two players from MI and Fl who were academically ineligible.

But caucuses don't count. At least that's what Mark Penn (since fired) and Howard Wolfson have said.

I posted a similar comment above before I read all of the comments.

I couldn't agree more!

Calipari is a whiner!

Remember when he claimed to have been under sniper fire as a community organizer?

Neither do I!

Glad to see other people find this diary, snarkish as it is intended to be, to be completely ignorant.

We're talking about a pretty big decision people have to make here ladies and gentlemen.  George Bush is going to be gone soon and we need to move the U.S. quickly beyond this horrible presidency.

Laughing about people who paid for an election with their tax dollars, participated in that election, and were told BY A POLITICAL PARTY that they, and all of their fellow statesmen's, votes will not count.  

Yuck.

Ok, for the quadrillionth time...  we were not disenfranchised.  I helped elect a mayor and voted against an issue that passed anyway.  My vote for both of those things counted.  And I was able to vote.  So I was not disenfranchised.

But so help me, I'm making a mental list of people who had damn well better be outraged when SCOTUS votes on the Indiana voter i.d. law that will disenfranchise people for real.  Not that I will do anything with it, but I will make a mental list...

Ahem...  Bob, good work.  None of this silliness is worth anything if we can't laugh at it once in a while.

I bet the smell goes away.

You're not serious are you? From whence is she going to pick 800K in votes if Pennsylvania and NC cancel each other out? Trust me, no one is worried about her picking up the popular vote.

I suppose you could say that the NCAA always reserves the right to change the rules of college basketball, and to invalidate those results, too.  I mean, everything's relative in the grand scheme of things; that doesn't mean we can't draw certain lines in the sand.

What are you talking about?

Pathetic.

Explain what?

Satire?

Get over it...

I find it fascinating.