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I Vote For Hillary - Our New DNC Chairman for REAL CHANGE

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Now that Hillary, as she puts it, has won all the States that ‘matter’, perhaps she’d play it smart by dropping out, or at the very least step to the side lines and just let voters finish voting.  Why you might ask; because now she can make a strong argument for ‘change’ of the DNC rules.  She can become the Democratic National Committee Chairman and get the ball rolling.

Her campaign has done nothing but complain about the ‘rules’ since she lost Iowa.  If the State had a caucus instead of a primary, we were told those are “caucuses are undemocratic”, if she lost a State it was because the States should be, “winner take all” instead of the way the DNC districts out the State.  Or we’d hear that the State had a high black population.
 
When the DNC and the candidates signed an agreement that Michigan and Florida delegates would not be seated, Hillary was one of the first to sign on.  Hillary kept her name on the Michigan ballot but Barack Obama and the rest of the Democrat candidates did not.  They were both on the Florida ballot; but neither campaigned there.

Obama wasn’t very well known at that time Florida voted.  Floridians voted in favor of the candidate they were familiar with, Hillary Clinton.  As soon as it became clear that Hillary was losing the nomination, her campaign immediately argued that those States should be seated and the votes counted.

After winning Pennsylvania Hillary’s camp is now claiming they’ve won the popular vote (including Michigan and Florida of course).  They will go to any length to convince super delegates that it is ‘they’ that are in the lead, not Barack Obama.

By becoming the DNC chairman, Hillary can really stand for ‘change’ and change the way the Party votes for their nominee.  She claims to like the way the GOP vote for their candidate, so why not push for that change?

Come on Hillary – do something that really means something to you – fix the system that ‘you say’ broke your back.


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I actually like Howard Dean as head of the DNC. I think he's been doing a great job. I say we raise enough money and buy her an island.

What, she can't buy her own with $109 million?!

Ha. Like Hillary cares about rules, or law, or policy or anything other than power.

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Is my snark-o-meter malfunctioning? You can't really be suggesting we replace Howard F*cking Dean with the Terror Of Tuzla? Dr. Dean represents the democratic wing of party and hillary is DLC Royalty. We should reward her petulant behaviour only with an extended timeout. Dean's run laid the ground work for the people to take back the Democratic Party.Howard Dean is the main reason the Dems kicked Rethug Ass in 06, as well as why we'll do it again this year. Don't buy the DLC crap about Dean's effectiveness.He's helping rebuild the party in a big way. Howard Dean's The Man.

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