For the life of me, what Barack was afraid of in Michigan I will never understand.
Hillary Clinton, in the Washington Post, again repeated and detailed this lie that Obama blocked a revote in Michigan. Nearly all news sources have been repeating this narrative verbatim, despite the fact that it has never been true.
Please, Obama, give a public speech on this issue. Explain your position and call her out on this lie, and specifically call out those in the media who are continually complicit in pushing this lie.
Obama did not "block" a revote in Michigan. Clinton, on the other hand, DID block nearly all the options put forward on the table, including the party's preferred method of a caucus (Clinton said there were no circumstances in which she would honor a caucus vote -- it was either primary or nothing.)
Obama's campaign did have concerns, rightly so, over Clinton's insistence that those who voted in the Republican primary couldn't vote in the redo. Of course this was a sticking point, because Obama (like Edwards, Richardson, Biden, etc.) honored the pledge they signed to not participate, and Clinton did not. Therefore, those voters who wanted to vote for Obama (or Edwards, etc.) couldn't (even write-in's weren't allowed), so a large percentage of them voted, strategically, in the Republican primary instead. Accepting a proposal that disenfranchised these voters a second time was, and is, an anti-Democratic non-starter. Obama would have to be a blistering idiot to accept a radically unfair revote as the plan (the ONLY plan) Clinton would approve. Obama is, in fact, not a blistering idiot. It would be the equivalent of, say, doing a revote in Florida, but telling voters that if they had supported Edwards the first time around, they couldn't select between Clinton and Obama this time.
Furthermore, as we all know, Obama wasn't the won who stopped it anyway. Michigan's primary redo, as proposed, was declared illegal and unconstitutional by Michigan. Period. Obama wasn't even the one fighting this -- it was an ACLU issue.
Any paper or news story that perpetuates this easily disproved and debunked "Obama blocked Michigan" lie should be called out on it. Obama needs to give an address on this -- in Michigan, preferably -- and vehemently, publicly reject and denounce Clinton and the media for their continued refusal to tell the truth.