At least 40% of the delegates elected to vote for Hillary Clinton chose instead to vote for Barack Obama.

My vote wasn't even counted, since I live in Pennsylvania.

And all of this was done to create a facade of artificial unity in a way that disrespects millions and millions of Democratic voters.  

I'm not in the mood for bull**it. I just wathced 18 MILLION vote's dismissed so that Obama could win without even looking as if he had serious competition. I have decided who I want to win - neither of them. Since I can't have that, I'm not voting. If you keep up the attacks, then I may just decide to join the growing ranks of (former) Dems who support McCain.

From today's Jodi Kantor article.

I saw discussions back-and-forth here earlier.

Hillary when she said to move to acclamation asked to suspend the roll call.

I.E. the vote will be preserved for the states that go after, all the states take secret ballots and put them in the count.

Also, she released her delegates days ago; if you wanted them to stick by her she shouldn't have released them.  Most delegates switched because she told them she was going to vote for Obama...

Obama, on the other hand, allowed his campaign to insinuate that Clinton (and her husband) were racists.

Bravo.

Honey, if I were still a Democrat, I'd be ashamed that my party wiped away 18 million voices, more than any other candidate in history AND YES FL AND MI COUNT.

As an independent, I'm free to feel everything I am about Hillary (terribly, terribly proud), about the Democratic Party (unmentionable) and their selected nominee (even more unmentionable).  

Best, I'm free to vote my conscience, guilt free, because I did what I could to prevent this debacle.

If this guy is a democrat, what is Kucinich?
I know. Big tent... but Rockefeller has a lot of power, and Kucinich has none.

Then, here comes Reid.
He talks about oil and wars being fought over oil.
He mentions Iraq invading Kuwait. He mentions Japan and Pearl Harbor(!)
HE MADE NO MENTION OF THE WAR IN IRAQ.

In addition, he just said that off-shore oil drilling is "snake oil".
He doesn't seem to realize that Obama recently said he was fer it.

From ABC News, 7/17/2008.

Sen. Jim DeMint, R-SC, the ranking member on that committee, which is chaired by Sen. Obama, wrote earlier this week requesting that Obama hold a hearing after his upcoming trip to Afghanistan, where NATO countries are currently engaged.
SNIP
But the Committee chairman, and Obama's guardian-in-chief where it comes to foreign policy, Sen. Joe Biden, shoots back in a letter sent last night to DeMint that there have been plenty of hearings on European Affairs, they've just been held at the "full committee level."

"On the particular issue of NATO's mission in Afghanistan," writes Biden, "We have held three Full Committee hearings in the last 22 months: one under Senator Lugar's chairmanship (September 21, 2006: "From Coalition to ISAF Command in Afghanistan: The Purpose and Impact of the Transition"), and two under mine (March 8, 2007: "Afghanistan: Time for a New Strategy?" and January 21, 2008: "Afghanistan: A Plan to Turn the Tide?").  At all three of these hearings, we were fortunate enough to have the expert testimony--in addition to other witnesses, both in and out of government-- of former NATO commander and Supreme Allied Commander-Europe, Gen. James R. Jones (USMC, ret.). At my request, Senator Obama chaired the confirmation hearing for our next ambassador to NATO, which he focused on NATO's mission in Afghanistan."

Aside: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee hasn't considered the role of NATO in Afghanistan since last January? In February, Biden called it the "Forgotten War," apparently for good reason.

Biden goes on in last night's letter: "Senator Obama has displayed great leadership on this issue: he called nearly a year ago for the deployment of at least two additional combat brigades to Afghanistan -- it has since become the accepted position of a wide range of U.S. military officials, including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  I look forward to working closely with him, and with you, on any future Afghanistan hearings that might be held in our Committee."

The issue of how many hearings have been held will become a prickly one if DeMint, as a McCain surrogate, pursues it. Sen. McCain has skipped nearly every Armed Services Committee Hearing even though he is the ranking member. And Sen. DeMint skipped the one hearing Obama did chair to consider some executive nominations.

Thnx to MKS for alerting me to his having held meeting(s).

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed

and I missed you since the place got wrecked
And I just don't care what happens next
looks like freedom but it feels like death
it's something in between, I guess
it's CLOSING TIME

If Obama wants me back, he'd best sing
I'm Your Man

If you want a lover
Ill do anything you ask me to
And if you want another kind of love
Ill wear a mask for you
If you want a partner
Take my hand
Or if you want to strike me down in anger
Here I stand
Im your man

If you want a boxer
I will step into the ring for you

Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon were the first same sex couple to be married when San Fran Mayor Gavin Newsom allowed marriage licenses to be issued to gay and lesbian couples in defiance of CA state law.  They were both plaintiffs in the CA lawsuit that got the state ban on same-sex marriage lifted.