Imagine our grandkids reading about that asterisk, as you put it so well.  Imagine the explanation, and in the context of the 2000 election in a preceding paragraph of the history textbook, that the party was punishing two states for having primary elections a couple of weeks "too soon."

Now, your grandkid comes to you, since you're so old that you actually were alive in '08, and asks about this -- about what law or whatever it was meant that a party could punish voters, set dates of elections, etc. . . . and in so doing, screw up an election.  And in so doing, maybe keep us at war in Iraq even then, when your grandkid will be only a few years away from having to serve there, too.

We Democrats talk a good game but too often it is 'just more empty words.'  

Obama's people seem to be perfecting the 'take your eye off the ball' technique in 'let's play process!'

On February 8, 2008, Barack Obama stood in the aisle of his airplane and told reporters that he would be "fine" with a new primary in Michigan if it could be done in a way that gave him and Senator Clinton time to make their respective cases and the DNC signed off. Since then, such a plan has garnered broad support from top Michigan lawmakers and the DNC has given its blessing.

So Barack Obama is on board, right? Guess again. It turns out that his comments about being fine with a re-vote if the above conditions were met were just words. As yesterday's headline in the Detroit Free-Press made clear, Senator Obama is the lone standout: "Michigan do-over depends on Obama's backing, Senate leaders say."

I do agree with you.  I don't know what causes that kind of blindness.  Is it the pursuit of some higher ideal?  Is it being caught up in an ideological mania?

Two I can name are Kid Oakland and There Is No Spoon. They are bad jokes - the both of them.

"An overwhelming number of members had concerns and unreadiness to go this route," State Sen. Tupac Hunter, an Obama supporter, just told me. "And when I say overwhelming, I mean overwhelming."

Another Michigan source said only two of 17 senators would commit to supporting the re-do.

Anyone trying to look at the situation at all objectively would acknowledge the flaw in promoting a plan that will produce another illegitimate result but maybe some bogus mo for one particular candidate over the other.