Stumble It!
Jun 02 2008
Florida and Michigan Get Some More Say in the Elections and What That Really Means
Photo provided by MSNBC.com
The Associated Press has confirmed that the Florida and Michigan delegates which had been left out of February’s Super Tuesday elections will now be granted “half seats” in the on-going battle for the hearts and minds of either Senator Hillary Clinton or Sentor Barack Obama in what still seems to be reminiscent of that all-important vote for prom king and queen back in high school…. This is prom season of course.
In an interesting turn, the Democrats have raised the number of delegates needed to win the nomination ever so slightly from 2,025 to 2,118 and while this change is something Senator Clinton may have thought to be to her benefit, it serves likely only to bolster the hopes of everybody’s favorite change maestro best as now Senator Obama is only 44 delegates away from a clinch as opposed with Senator Clinton who likely needs near 200 delegates as reported by National Public Radio earlier today. Yet very apparently, Clinton feels she is entitled to every chance to go to the proverbial judges on this one. “Mrs. Clinton has told me to reserve her right to take this to the Credentials Committee” adviser Harold Ickes told the AP.
However, is this not the same technicality-based stubbornness that allowed President Bush to win the presidency not once, but twice? Is it not unfair to say to our public that every vote counts and then leave the final say to some “super” delegates who apparently can change their votes flippantly and capriciously at the eleventh hour based on… whatever? This is without question hypocritical. One can of course fully understand a candidate’s want to be president if he or she thinks themselves a better fit. But go around pandering to a precautionary electoral committee after being mathematically trounced by popular vote all but a handful of times spits in the face of each voter who cares about their lives, the lives of their friends, the fate of their enemies, the fate of the planet and believe that they have a duty to leave the world in a state that future generations can be proud of in their hearts and do so without regret. To be so desperate is to lose that all-encompassing tenacity required of all great leaders in a free world.
Alas, as I try to maintain my sense of humor, I cannot help but think it all a bit too “high school.” This is not the Junior Prom, or the state football championship. The fate of whole government is lingering in the wind because one person’s needs are not being met. Waaaah! Cry me a river, build a bridge to the Democratic National Convention and get over it, Hillary….
And until next time… keep waxing poetically!
