Obama on FL Delegates: I'm Going to Stick to My Pledge

Barack Obama on ABC's This Week, January 27, 2008

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[caferrell]

How much do the Clintons pay you?

[wiskawind]

Ted and Caroline Kennedy just indorsed Obama! (smile)

[doetim]

sahseh07,

I agree with you, especially Florida being a very crucial swing state and Florida's democrats being disenfranchised because of this fiasco could make some difference in the general election which is what I'm afraid of. I hate it when the party officials screwing things up but it's the PEOPLE who have pay for it.

[sahseh07]

oh i see... thanks... but i'm still pissed that they moved the date cause thats causing a lot of drama between floridians and the dem. party...

[doetim]

Hi sahseh07,

Obama's name was in on the ballot in Florida. It was Michigan where his name was not on the ballot. Both Clinton and Obama didn't campaign in Florida so the votiing that took place happened in a fair way, just as if both campaigned, no one had an advantage over the other so it would be fine to seat the delegates according to the voting that had already taken place. Michigan is a different story, Obama's name was not on the ballot so it's not fair to him to make those votes count.

[sahseh07]

i live in florida and i am pissed off... if obama's name was on that ballot i'm sure people would have voted for him

[JimmyMay1967]

Bring this country together. Associating with racists for 20 years!? Obama has done NOTHING but tear Democrats apart. We would have won in November with HRC easy--Why couldn't Mr. Big Ego; No Experience wait?

[JimmyMay1967]

prrolg-that's pretty shocking. do you know anything else about speech? where can I see it?

[harker3355]

Hillary always wants to change the rules in the middle of the game if it's not going her way. The DNC Rules were known by everyone. There was NO real contest in Michigan or Floria. Those delegates CANNOT be counted toward the total now. That would be THEFT.

[doetim]

Everyone's saying that the democratic party penalized Florida and Michigan for moving their primaries up so early but it wasn't the people of those states who did that, it was the people within the party do did that so you're punishing the people who are the voters who had nothing to do with their state's primary moving to a different time. It's just not democracy to say 1.7 million votes don't count but the rest of the votes in the US do. I'd be pissed if I were a Floridian.

[lizben08]

Democratic Party needs Florida in the general election. No matter the Democratic nominee, hoping the Democratic party does the right thing and counts the Florida votes