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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-09-08 12:02 PM
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Our disgraceful Dems: Michigan Democrats managed to screw the voters and become irrelevant

Our disgraceful Dems: Michigan Democrats managed to screw the voters and become irrelevant
by Jack Lessenberry | April 9, 2008



If you are a Democrat in Michigan, you ought to have one goal in mind as far as your party is concerned: purging the hacks, creeps and incompetent stooges who run the Michigan Democratic Party.

Thanks to Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer, National Committeewoman Debbie Dingell, Gov. Jennifer Granholm and U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, you are to have no say in the most exciting and possibly most important race for the presidency in history.

That became clear last week, when, after bungling not one but two attempts at holding a primary, and then impotently floundering about for some weeks, the Dems threw in the towel and decided they weren't going to let you vote for president after all.

Brewer's spokesman put out this release on Friday afternoon: "The Michigan Democratic Party has carefully reviewed several proposals for a party-run primary or caucus as a means of resolving the dispute over the seating of the Michigan delegation to the 2008 Democratic National Convention. We have concluded that it is not practical to conduct such a primary or caucus."

Or to translate that into English: Memo to the voters: Screw you. Want the chance to cast a vote for Barack Obama, like people in the other 49 states and Puerto Rico? Go piss up a rope.

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emperor124 Donating Member (82 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-09-08 12:08 PM
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1. It would be 48 states actually
Cause Florida moved their primary up too.
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bellasgrams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-09-08 12:50 PM
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2. Such a nice intellegent post. Really high class. By the way,
It was agreed by all except BO that MI voters do a revote BO refused . That was pretty stinky
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-09-08 01:05 PM
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3. Fight this all you want, but Obama is not to blame. Blame the MI
Dems, if you've got a problem.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-09-08 07:02 PM
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4. Rec'd! Who would have thought that
those in pols in Michigan would be so instrumental in screwing up their constituencies' ability to vote in the 2008 Dem Primary? Just because they wanted to make a power grab..they couldn't wait one week?
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