We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
I can't believe that I'm paying any attention to the back-room dealings of a previously-obscure DNC committee today. But the footie season is over, Euro 2008 doesn't start for another week, so there it is. If you've got C-SPAN on in the background today, chip in your opinions on the absurd primary process here.
posted by gatorbob @ 10:00 AM
We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
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DNC chairman Howard Dean has just finished pumping up the crowd. No "Dean Scream" this time, but he did catch the attention by remarking on the "outrageous sexism in the media" during the campaign. Bit of a nod to the Hillary camp then.
The hypocrisy of some of the Clinton hacks speaking before this committee this morning is just breathtaking. Florida senator Bill Nelson has just finished his remarks in which he claimed that his only goal in testifying today is to "represent the people of Florida." Bollocks. He knows that if the shoe were on the other foot, he'd be steamrolling the process through to the inevitable Hillary coronation process at the convention.
The tedious speeches continue but Sam Stein at Huffington Post is reporting that a deal has already been struck last night for Florida. The details are:
* All Florida delegates will be seated at the convention in August.
* Each of them will receive half a vote rather than a full vote as a punishment from the party.
* This means that Hillary Clinton will pick up a net 19 delegates.
* It also means that she picks up 300,000 more votes. That's her real victory here because it adds to her absurd claim around the popular vote.
Now for Michigan...
All the scintillating committee is over for today and the big news is that all of the delegates in Florida and Michigan will be seated but they'll only be allocated half a vote a piece. (All this discussion of half a vote today has the immortal Python tune "Eric a Half a Bee" stuck in head.)
That means that Clinton's argument about the popular vote has been advanced but the delegate argument is decisively with Obama now. After today, he's a mere 88 delegates away from victory. If the votes in Puerto Rico tomorrow night and Montana and South Dakota go the way that they're expected to, he'll only need around 20 superdelegates after Tuesday night. The Democrats have their nominee, in other words.
So are you Obamamanics breaking open the champagne tonight?
I had a Boddingtons . . .
Good on you, mate. Just stay away from that arugula - makes you look elitist.
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