Comments on: Reality? You Can’t Handle Reality!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:07:30 +0000

That meeting takes place after the fact and is worthless.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:58:26 +0000

I replied on the other thread where you provided the background history of this. I agree that the Florida delegation has a good case for the rules committee to seat them.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:28:20 +0000

Not exactly, Michael, the Republicans set up the situation, but the Democratic National Committee screwed us.

Five states violated DNC rule 11A, but only two were penalized. That is not a fair way of conducting affairs and Floridians know it.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:25:42 +0000

As I understand it, at the convention the rules committee can seat the Florida delegation if it chooses, but it will have to solve both Florida and Michigan.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:22:30 +0000

Republicans screwed Florida. What else is new?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:18:20 +0000

Michael, I have no concern with Michigan. I don’t live in or vote in Michigan. You need to consult someone in Michigan.

My understanding is that Michigan has a Democratic governor and Democrats control one of the chambers of the legislature, so I would assume that the Democrats in Michigan had some control over what went on there.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:20:18 +0000

Who do you blame for your disenfranchisement, Bryan? Florida got screwed no doubt about it, but there’s not even an arguable case that Michigan had a fair contest.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:12:53 +0000

Geraldine Ferraro is in her seventies and dying of cancer. After all the garbage she has had to put with in her life, and especially during that ’84 campaign she is free to say whatever she wants.

I spent years on an Equal Employment Opportunity board when I was on state civil service in New York. I dealt with complaints all the time. Some were egregious, some were subtle, some were stupid, and some were being too thin skinned to live on this planet.

This was a comment in a local newspaper in a small town in California that was sought out and highlighted by partisans to generate a controversy. The premeditation in this [did I mention that the civil service job I had was criminal investigator] was not by Ms. Ferraro.

If I saw a little more condemnation of the sexism in this competition, I might feel differently, but when you go out looking for something to be outraged about, don’t expect to be taken seriously.

I don’t care who wins this because I’m a liberal and won’t vote for either one of them, but if I was inclined to vote it wouldn’t be for the individual who is doing his damnedest to disenfranchise me.

By: Frederick

Frederick — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:41:34 +0000

Like everything this Primary season, it’s a wash.

By: Jack K., the Grumpy Forester

Jack K., the Grumpy Forester — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:41:11 +0000

…I was giving this some thought over the last couple of days ’cause I was thinking about posting on it, but now I don’t have to. I was pretty sure that I understand the point that Ferraro was trying to make, but I’m not sure that there is a way of making it without being spun as being a racist comment…