USA Presidential Politics - 2008

[roni]

Sen. Clinton's spokesman, Phil Singer, insisted without elaborating that the campaign was "simply asking for the procedures to be put in writing.

Dang, asking the Texans to put the rules in writing.

That is so unreasonable and unfair. What is that New Yorker thinking?

[StephenB]

Originally Posted by roni

Dang, asking the Texans to put the rules in writing.

That is so unreasonable and unfair. What is that New Yorker thinking?

She's just a fake New Yorker!

[ryberg]

This view argues that the Clinton campaign is only asking for the rules in writing from the TX Democratic Party a couple of days before the primary, even though it has been identified for weeks now as a crucial one for Clinton and Obama's people have for much longer now been making it a point to help explain the system to TX voters.

If you say so! It may even illustrate the difference in the campaigns in microcosm, in fact.

Steve

[MWC]

Originally Posted by ryberg

This view argues that the Clinton campaign is only asking for the rules in writing from the TX Democratic Party a couple of days before the primary, even though it has been identified for weeks now as a crucial one for Clinton and Obama's people have for much longer now been making it a point to help explain the system to TX voters.

If you say so! It may even illustrate the difference in the campaigns in microcosm, in fact.

Steve

Not to mention that it has been at least a week since Hillary made that snide comment about the Texas system making grown men cry with its complexity. I don't see my man Barack crying.

[roni]

Originally Posted by ryberg

This view argues that the Clinton campaign is only asking for the rules in writing from the TX Democratic Party a couple of days before the primary, even though it has been identified for weeks now as a crucial one for Clinton and Obama's people have for much longer now been making it a point to help explain the system to TX voters.

If you say so! It may even illustrate the difference in the campaigns in microcosm, in fact.

Steve

I was just quoting your post, you know.

[ryberg]

Originally Posted by roni

I was just quoting your post, you know.

Well you were quoting the Clinton campaign statement, as it appeared in the article I quoted in my post. It was the statement presented before the same article cited Texas Democratic Party officials as saying that in reality the Clinton campaign had gone out of their way to threaten litigation. The latter just seems more likely accurate, imo, given the context (their previous remarks about litigation and the strangeness of the idea that they'd only be asking for the written rules at the last minute).

Whatever the case may be, please, p l e a s e , let's all hope there will be no litigation following the voting tomorrow. Short of, say, an assassination, I can hardly think of anything worse that could happen in this situation right now.

Steve

[roni]

Originally Posted by ryberg

Whatever the case may be, please, p l e a s e , let's all hope there will be no litigation following the voting tomorrow. Short of, say, an assassination, I can hardly think of anything worse that could happen in this situation right now.

Steve

I hope that the election and the caucuses are run fairly by written rules that everyone has access to and can observe the fairness in the way that they were followed.

Lacking that, litigation would be a favor to all of us - especially those who have spent the most electrons over the past 8 years yearning for electoral reforms in the USA.

[Jacko]

Originally Posted by roni

I hope that the election and the caucuses are run fairly by written rules that everyone has access to and can observe the fairness in the way that they were followed.

Lacking that, litigation would be a favor to all of us - especially those who have spent the most electrons over the past 8 years yearning for electoral reforms in the USA.

I just love to watch you two play!

[Just Lucky]

D#@% Yankees! You want us to write down the rules?

[ryberg]

I think by this argument, Obama's campaign should already have gone into litigation re superdelegates, and Clinton's re both MI & FL and caucuses more generally. Not sure that's how the party would come out best, though. (Even in my railings against superdelegates, I never suggested litigation during the campaign as a solution.)

Steve

[roni]

Originally Posted by ryberg

I think by this argument, Obama's campaign should already have gone into litigation re superdelegates, and Clinton's re both MI & FL and caucuses more generally. Not sure that's how the party would come out best, though. (Even in my railings against superdelegates, I never suggested litigation during the campaign as a solution.)

Steve

I do not see the case for the two being connected at all.

Perhaps you could make it, but please only if you can do it concisely.

thanks

[roni]

Originally Posted by Jacko

I just love to watch you two play!

Thanks Cousin Jacko

Just as long as it does not increase anyway's carbon footprint, I guess

[roni]

Originally Posted by Just Lucky

D#@% Yankees! You want us to write down the rules?

After your Governor Bush improvarated your educational system so much, we expectorate nothing but the best from ya'll

[Just Lucky]

Originally Posted by roni

After your Governor Bush improvarated your educational system so much, we expectorate nothing but the best from ya'll

First off, he was never my Governor. I believe he worked primarily for Exxon and other all (that's oil to y'all) companies, some insurance companies and a few super-churches.

Secondly, here are the number one rule of all Texas politics:

If you have enough powerful friends and money you win.

This rule is very,very seldom broken.

[roni]

Originally Posted by Just Lucky

First off, he was never my Governor.

Well, he was never my president either, but he was the president of the country in which my citizenship resides.

Six - one, half-dozen, other.