Update #3: Go rec this second Mydd diary (yes, 2 diaries a day are allowed). I think you'll enjoy it. I've posted it at the bottom of this diary.
Crossposted at MYDD...please rec there too!
UPDATE: Yes I know that I spelled "spigots" wrong. But I'm refuse to change it until all of Michigan's delegates are seated for Hillary Clinton!!! Giving legitimacy to a non-campaign between one candidate and "uncommitted" is what our democracy is all about!!! This is about our basic freedoms, man! The supreme court has roundly rejected prior restraint!
Barack Obama has no shame. None whatsoever.
According to the Chicago Tribune (Uh oh, Chicago style politics!), Obama is threatening to launch a massive voter registration drive in all 50 states. The goal would be to register new voters who will support Democrats up and down the ticket (these will all be mildless naive cultists). This drive would be paid for by his corrupt fundraising machine that is very corrupt because it is raising way too much money from elitists, black people, and other non-white-working-class-older-rural-voters (the most important an uncorruptable demographic). Even more notably, it would turn the spickets of his machine towards superdelegates' districts, where voter registration could help them strengthen their position and even elect more democrats down ticket. It's quid pro quo at it's worst!
This is corruption in it's most base form. How dare Barack Obama attempt to curry favor by registering people to vote in undecided superdelegates' districts! He's even planning to register people to vote in HRC supporting superdelegates' districts. He's trying to buy them off! Is there nothing that's not for sale???
Here's the story:
Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign is planning to unveil a "massive" voter registration drive, one that will reach all 50 states and seeks to boost confidence in him as a potential general election candidate.
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"That's why I'm so proud that today our campaign announced a massive volunteer-led voter registration drive in all 50 states to help ensure every single eligible voter takes part in this election so we can take back Washington for the American people," Obama said at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place.
Barack Obama is the lowest of the low. He belongs in jail! How dare he use his 21st Century campaign tools to gain favor and boost his electability!
Who will hold him accountable?
Update #2: Because I'm on the rec list, I want to share with you the most inspiring video I've ever seen. Imagine if Hillary finally gets the nomination and beats corrupt Barack Obama. We'll run dozens of ads just like this one!
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NEW MYDD DIARY:
I've reached my breaking point.
I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO furious about this Michigan situation. We need to seat all of those delegates. We need to seat all of them for their rightful owner, Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama is lucky that the Clintons are even letting him have a few delegates in undemocratic caucus states. They didn't have to do that for him. I think they were so generous to him because he is black, and the Clintons are great on Civil Rights. At least that's what Geraldine Ferraro thinks, bless her heart.
At any rate, just today, I was made aware of some incredibly dismissive comments about Michigan's delegation being seated. These comments sound like a dictator trying to end democracy forever:
Here are the offensive remarks dismissing our very democracy. The comments are a conversation between a Michigan Senator and a DNC Chairman who is out of control and trying to destroy our Democracy forever:
"I'm going outside the primary window," the Michigan Senator said definitively.
"If I allow you to do that, the whole system collapses," the DNC party chairman said. "We will have chaos. I let you make your case to the DNC, and we voted unanimously and you lost."
The Michigan Senator kept insisting that they were going to move up Michigan on their own, even though if they did that, they would lose half their delegates. By that point the Senator and the DNC Chairman were leaning toward each other over a table in the middle of the room, shouting and dropping the occasional expletive.
"You won't deny us seats at the convention," the Senator said.
"[Senator], take it to the bank," the DNC Chairman said. "They will not get a credential. The closest they'll get to Boston will be watching it on television. I will not let you break this entire nominating process for one state. The rules are the rules. If you want to call my bluff, [Senator], you go ahead and do it."
We glared at each other some more, but there was nothing much left to say. I was holding all the cards and the Michigan Senator knew it.
Where are we living??? Communist Russia? Communist China? Communist Laos? Communist...Cuba??
The DNC chair has lost his mind. He's blatantly trying to disenfranchise the voters of Michigan. And if the situation were reversed, and his candidate would benefit from an election where one candidate was on the ballot, he would still stand his ground, dictator that he is.
This is an outrage.
I am outraged. I wasn't outraged until recently, but now I am very outraged. Outrageous.
Almost as outrageous is the statement made by a candidate for President DISMISSING THE DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS OF MICHIGAN VOTERS:
"[Michigan] is not going to count for anything."
The person who made that statement is a danger to our democracy. They should never be allowed to obtain power, because they are blood thirsty for power, and they would deny the FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO VOTE TO MICHIGAN OH MY GOD THEY WOULD DO IT OH MY GOD.
Oh...my...God...
I am so outraged right now. It feels good. It feels great to be outraged, because if I convince myself that Hillary Clinton is losing because of some sort of nefarious plot by her opponents, it helps me cope with this fact. It's like a warm blanket a cold night, or a change of sheets after you've wet the bed.