A few days ago Obama stated that if the DNC figured out a way to do a revote he would go along with it.The DNC approved Michigans revote plan today,as did the governor and Senator Clinton.
By Greg Sargent
I'm told that private conversations are continuing right now between officials at the Democratic National Committee, the Michigan Democratic party, and the Hillary and Obama campaigns over ways to salvage some kind of last minute solution. Elizabeth Kerr, the spokesperson for the Michigan Dems, emails me:
I can confirm that discussion are ongoing with the DNC and both campaigns but cannot comment on the substance of those negotiations.
There's nothing in the Detroit News on the revote being dead, and the paper is reporting that several influential Michigan political players -- Senator Carl Levin, UAW chief Ron Gettelfinger and Democratic National Committeewoman Debbie Dingell -- are still gearing up to push the legislature one more time.
As best as I can understand it from talking to Michigan insiders, there's a sense that if a solution is agreed upon that Obama can support, then the situation in the state legislature could conceivably shift and it could conceivably pass. But it remains a long shot. There are no indications that Obama will shift his stance, and one aide to a Republican state senator put the chances of a revote happening at "two percent."
I'm trying to determine what's going on in the discussions and will keep you posted.
(Remember come voting time who did not think your voice mattered)


Comments: 4
Yes, I hope they will remember.
On the other hand, Barack Obama agreed to play by the rules when the DNC told the two states not to move up their primaries. And now with the revotes his words are equally clear - that he will abide by any rules that the DNC defines as fair to both parties. He has stuck to his words.
Yes, I hope everyone will remember at voting time that Obama has consistently played by the rules and Hillary has constantly tried to manipulate the rules for her own benefit. And, I might add, to the detriment of the party.
Note that 48 additional superdelegates just since Super Tuesday have said they will now support Obama. The net gain in superdelegates in that time for Hillary - 0. Even the party establishment is abandoning her because of her selfishness. She believes she is bigger than the party. The party is beginning to disagree.
Yes, I hope we all remember who is bringing down the Democratic party to feed their own self interest.
Hillary said one thing in December, then something else when she is behind. What a hypo? So are the people who support her and get behind this argument.
You can make the argument that every vote should count but to say somebody is coming back on their words. Laughable.
Now on the issue of her experiences. The records have been released first look of those 11000 pages has started, she is being debunked!
Foreign Policy Experience?
But the calendars also seem to show that, on occasion, Mrs. Clinton was not substantively involved with foreign affairs when a real 3 a.m. crisis hit the White House.
Take, for example, when Al Qaeda terrorists bombed the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, killing hundreds of people. Mrs. Clinton's schedule does not show any foreign policy meetings in the aftermath of the crisis, only a trip to Andrews Air Force Base to console victims and their families as they returned from Africa to the United States. And when, in retaliation for those embassy attacks, President Clinton bombed Al Qaeda terrorist camps in Afghanistan, where was Mrs. Clinton? The records show that she was vacationing at a "private residence" in Martha's Vineyard, Ma., and had no official events.
Foreign trips offer a mixed review of Mrs. Clinton's national-security experience. On a trip to Japan and Korea in 1993, for example, her schedule was filled with teas, tours of gardens and other traditional first lady fare. And on a trip to Russia in 1994, Mrs. Clinton met with other first ladies and attended coffees and tours, separate from her husband or the Russian president. Clinton campaign spokesman Carson described the calendars as only a "guide," and said that they "of course cannot reflect all of Senator Clinton's activities as First Lady."