Obama Likes Rule Breaking Florida And Michigan Now

Barack Obama has decided, now that it doesn’t matter, to fully seat the Florida and Michigan delegates. In March Hillary Clinton won both of those states and counting their delegates might have turned the election the other way just before super Tuesday. Obama hired his lawyers to work behind the scenes to make sure the delegates from these two states would not count. On Sunday he wrote a letter to the co-chairs of the Democratic National Convention’s Credentials Committee asking them to give Florida and Michigan them a “full vote” at the Democratic convention this month. In the letter Obama said, “I believe party unity calls for the delegates from Florida and Michigan to be able to participate fully alongside the delegates from the other states and territories.” Last spring it was all about breaking some rules, but now it is all about a perceived party unity. Obama has asked the committee to pass a resolution when they meet on August 24th to give each delegate a full vote instead of the half vote that was agreed on in May.
Alan Cosgrove