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Mark had the wrong angle on this story. The reason this agreement happened prior to the selection of a candidate is because Hillary Clinton supporters are demanding that Howard Dean use his limited “leadership” abilities to fix this Michigan and Florida debacle before sending money to the DNC for the General. The DNC is having trouble filling it’s war chest for the general election and sees this as necessary to get the cash flowing in.

I’m one that is of the opinion that the democratic party has been co-opted. It has become the Soros party with far-left ideology that centrist democrats find a bit much at times. The new ”management” has indicated an apparent disdain for the center of the democratic party, practically verbalizing a desire that we just go away.

It has become obvious that this struggle is about what Democrats really stand for. In my eyes, Hillary Clinton and her supporters are fighting for nothing less than the heart and soul of the democratic party.

Howard Dean, Donna Brazile, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have chose their candidate long ago. They have been stacking the deck for him all the way with the extremely punitive handling of Michigan and Florida and favoritism shown by party “elders” in the effort to keep those votes from being counted. The DNC has had in its power the ability to resolve this issue and yet they fail to do so because it will mean momentum for Clinton and will allow voters in the rest of the country to see how close this race really is.

Howard Dean has been pushing the superdelegates to declare before the race is over. With each Clinton victory there is a veiled attempt to shame her into dropping out by “party elders”. Let me just say this…I did not vote these people in, and right now it doesn’t look anything like my party.  

Party elders not stood up to the sexism displayed by so many in the race. They have not stood up against the race baiting. They have not stood up for voters that want to be counted. They have only stood up for Barack Obama.

Hillary supporters are protesting this lack of neutrality by withholding funds until the democratic party leaders start acting democratic again. I assume that is why Hillary has not signed on to a joint agreement.

Barack Obama was not properly vetted, he is a severely flawed candidate that cannot win a general election. Barack Obama has very little experience and has not shown anywhere near the depth that Clinton has on the issues. Many of us that found him an interesting candidate, but have been turned off by the race baiting, the low blows to Clinton’s character, and the attempts to tarnish the only successful democratic president and presidency that many of us have seen in our lifetimes.

There is a fundamental lack of respect emanating from that campaign and the decision by Obama’s people not to count or revote Michigan and Florida says it all.

Howard Dean is enabling this mess because he wants to make sure Obama wins. I saw this info this morning on Taylor Marsh’s website:

“At a strategy session yesterday, Terry McAuliffe alerted those present that the superdelegates from Florida had filed a formal complaint with Party’s rules committee board, because regardless of the status of the seating of the Florida delegation, it is a violation of DNC rules to refuse to seat the Florida’s superdelegates (superdelegates are not chosen by primary). Guess what Howard Dean is doing? Refusing to refer the complaint to the rules committee. Terry urged everybody in the room and everybody we know to contact the DNC and specifically ask that the RCB address the complaint filed by the two Florida delegates.”

Hillary Clinton’s supporters for the most part have been kicked around like she has. We work hard and are under-appreciated by corporations and our government. We are saying Dean, Pelosi and the DNC - DON’T TREAD ON ME!