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To: Road Walker who wrote (375849)4/2/2008 5:33:50 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1577532
 
JF, > I'm just criticising the method. Public figures used to act with a lot more reverence toward the election process. Rush is changing that...

A quick look through American history suggests that nothing really has changed. The election process has always been subject to abuse whenever politicians can get away with it.

Personally, I think every single primary should be held on the same day. We live in the Internet age these days, and the old traditions are, to put it mildly, quaint. Kind of stupid to have Iowa and NH dictate the entire flow of the primary campaigns.

Tenchusatsu



To: Road Walker who wrote (375849)4/2/2008 5:44:15 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1577532
 
I'm not worried about the outcome. I'm just criticising the method.

How is "Operation Chaos" any worse than Hillary's attempt to sway super-delegates to switch their loyalty to her? For that matter, how is it any worse than the systemic attempt on the Party's part to create these super-delegates in an effort to PERMIT such a corruption of the process?



To: Road Walker who wrote (375849)4/2/2008 8:26:52 PM
From: i-node  Respond to of 1577532
 
So, JF, are Clinton & Clinton encouraging people to "vote for someone they hate to screw up a US election"? Or is it okay when a former Democratic president does it?

blogs.abcnews.com

Candidate Clinton to Richardson: 'Barack Obama Can't Win'

April 02, 2008 7:39 PM

ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and former President Bill Clinton are making very direct arguments to Democratic superdelegates, starkly insisting Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., cannot win a general election against presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz