Meanwhile, TMP has the entire Clinton conference call. I'm listening now.

This caught my eye (emphasis angrily added):

There's the fact that Hillary Clinton's name and the uncommitted slate was the only thing that was on the ballot in Michigan because the Democratic National Committee asked the other candidates to withdraw their names from the ballot. So, here you have the institution itself asking people to pull their names off the ballot.

How does one get to sit on that committee and still not know the facts of the situation especially knowing the issue is coming up. The DNC never asked them to remove their names. Hell the pledge wasn't even made to the DNC. And he gets to vote on issues he hasn't taken the time to be informed about?

Here's the other thing:  The electoral argument that Obama is now being rejected by voters, if not delegates.  That folks shouldn't be thinking so much about a delegate lead and magic numbers but the popular vote and Obama's electability issues at this point.

Just a question of focus, and I can definitely see how focussing on one too much and not the other would lead one to conclude that one was backtracking and giving up on the other.

If you can hypothesize a situation where Obama met the higher magic number but still lost the popular vote, then I still think a lot of people are going to think the nomination was rigged.

Anyway, Mr. Peters also offered, a Falling out of love blurb, with a bad case of Clinton Derangement Syndrome, when he wrote "the repeated attemps by the Clintons to make race a major issue" and Hillary's answer to the 60 Minutes question if she thought Obama was a Muslim as "There's nothing to base that on--as far as I know".

You keyboard:  Dirtier than a toilet

Would that cause a flood of SD's (app. 130 more) to Obama that would have him reach the lower number before nuclear option day?  If so, Obama can have the press declare him the nominee before Hillary can take her next major procedural maneuver to have MI and FL count.

From the article:

Mr Werner, chairman of C3, a Los Angeles-based holding company for private equity firms, is pouring millions of dollars into developing the Baghdad Zoo and Entertainment Experience, a massive American-style amusement park that will feature a skateboard park, rides, a concert theatre and a museum. It is being designed by the firm that developed Disneyland. "The people need this kind of positive influence. It's going to have a huge psychological impact," Mr Werner said.

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Mr Werner, who has been sold a 50-year lease on the site by the Mayor of Baghdad for an undisclosed sum, says that the time is ripe for the amusement park. "I think people will embrace it. They'll see it as an opportunity for their children regardless if they're Shia or Sunni. They'll say their kids deserve a place to play and they'll leave it alone."

[snip]

But Mr Werner, whose company manages several hundred million dollars of equity, sees Iraq as a great opportunity. "Iraq to me is an open field. I have never in my life seen an opportunity with the potential that Iraq has with its skilled workforce and oil reserves." He has begun partnerships with several Iraqi factories in the last year, investing tens of millions of dollars in joint ventures. But the Baghdad Zoo and Entertainment Experience could prove the most ambitious. General David Petraeus, head of US forces, is said to be a "big supporter" of the project, according to Mr Brinkley.

To my knowledge, the Standing Rules Committee has not met & reduced the total delegate votes that are available, nor have they changed the 50 percent plus one rule.

At the convention, the 3 standing committees will each expand from 25 to 186, with 183 voting members.  The 161 added members, per committee (483 total) will come from the state delegations in approximate proportion to the overall percentage of selected delegates at the convention.  The Credentials committee may choose to make changes, or may not.  Same with Rules, & it appears that the Platform Committee has no bearing on this issue.

An easy fix for Dr. Dean is to leave the majority number for the nomination at 2,209 and seat the FL & MI delegations with no votes.

At all times, the 2,025 number has been a very questionable extrapolation.

"Going nuclear" could be moves that force both committee & floor battles on 2 different fronts, then using procedural tactics to tie-up the convention.  If it takes 2,209 to pass a motion, nothing will be finished.  If they attempt to change the number to 2,025, there may not be enough votes in committee or on the floor to make the change.  Stalemate.

He's entitled, and I don't care that he wants to vote for Obama. He did make a bit of a funny along the lines of "now that you know who I'm voting for, you can choose your candidate".

My gripe is that he listed a few previous presidents (JFK and before), and Ronald Reagan as the comparison to Obama's greatness.

I'm sick of the Obama campaign diminishing Bill Clinton's presidency by refusing to acknowledge it as one of the finest we've have in decades.

Remember the preacher who asked McCain about the c*nt remark?  Turns out....he was a Huff plant.