Then you bend over for a pooch-poke?!!
How could I possibly vote for a party of people like this?
"Delegates get prime floor seating; Move upsets rule sticklers" by Brian C. Mooney, Globe Staff | August 26, 2008
DENVER - The delegations from Florida and Michigan, once the black sheep of this Democratic National Convention, have not only been given restored full voting rights, but also awarded primo seating on the floor of the Pepsi Center.
That has caused some grumbling among the rules sticklers, who believe the states have escaped punishment for moving their primaries earlier than national party rules allowed. The Florida delegation is on the floor and next to the delegation from Delaware, the home state of vice presidential nominee Joe Biden.
The Michigan delegates are seated just behind those from the host state of Colorado. The delegates from Illinois, the home state of Senator Barack Obama, are on the center of the floor in between Florida and Michigan. (The Massachusetts delegation is up in the arena seats above the floor, behind the delegation from New York, Hillary Clinton's home state.)
James Roosevelt, the Massachusetts superdelegate who was co-chairman of both party committees that adjudicated the Florida-Michigan dispute, takes a longer view. Initially, the rules committee agreed to seat Florida and Michigan delegates but with half votes per delegate - a decision that effectively sealed the nomination for Obama. On Sunday, the credentials committee restored the states to full voting status.
And they got BETTER SEATS, too!!! Time to move up your primary, Mass!!!!
"Some people say the message is that rules don't matter," said Roosevelt, who is chief executive officer of Tufts Health Plan. The more important message, conveyed not only in the reinstatement of their full voting privileges, but also in awarding them choice seats on the convention floor, Roosevelt said, is "it shows we want to win in November."
By what, being a bunch of lying hypocrites?
Michigan and Florida are swing states with big blocs of votes in the Electoral College - a combined 44 of the 270 needed to win the presidency - and some Democrats believe voters would be put off by Democratic Party punishment.
And both states did suffer, Roosevelt asserted, first by having candidates ignore their primary contests, both won by Clinton, and then in the assignment of hotel rooms, which were given out before the two states' status was restored. Many delegations and media outlets have lodgings in outlying commercial office parks as well as along highways in the suburbs and exurbs of Denver.
But for the Michigan and Florida delegations, the accommodations are even worse, scattered among eight far-flung hotels, Roosevelt said.That's the punishment? A hotel further away?
Does it have roaches? Dems would feel right at home then!
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