Someone call a doctor ...
By Jennifer J. Foster
Published: May 31, 2008
Harold Ickes needs his meds.
Hillary Clinton’s senior campaign adviser is officially off his rocker.
He’s on a diatribe about FAIR REFLECTION!!! and “THE GALL!! THE CHUTZPAH!!!“ the Rules and Bylaws Committee must have to “substitute its judgment for 600,000 Michigan voters.“
The committee is “hijacking” four of Clinton’s delegates from Michigan, Ickes says.
“I am simply stunned,“ he whines.
And if you weren’t certain of his malcontent with the motion to apportion Michigan’s delegates between Clinton and Barack Obama, he threw in a few non-G-rated words for good measure.
I’ll remind you that my six- and three-year-old daughters watch elections coverage with me, so they were well within earshot when Ickes delivered his intellectual response.
P.S., Ickes says with a snarl, Hillary Clinton “has instructed me” to “reserve her rights to take this to the Credentials Committee.“
Looks like Harry and Nancy have their work cut out for them ... Clinton’s giving every indication that she intends to take the nomination fight all the way to Denver.
Harold Ickes. What a sad, grumpy, angry man. What a terrible ambassador for Hillary Clinton.
Someone get him some meds.
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Posted by ( ) on June 01, 2008 at 7:28 am
As a disinterested person made aware of this squabble among Democrats only because I had my TV on for a while as reports about it came in, I think it may be the Democrat Party that needs some meds. The way it seems to me, the national Democrat party has punished the wrong people, namely citizens who went to the polls and voted in Florida and Michigan at the behest of their state parties. I wouldn’t think that’s the best way to maintain their loyalty to the party. Every vote should have counted and every delegate elected by those voters should be seated at the convention.
What should have been done would have been to punish the guilty, rather than the innocent. Those guilty of breaking party rules by holding elections earlier than permitted by the national party were, of course, the state Democrat parties in Florida and Michigan. They could have been fined appropriately in order to maintain party discipline, but I guess it’s easier to bully the faceless voter than it is to confront your party cohort.
Does that make any sense, Jennifer?
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