Reply #27: I'm not one to completely torpedo a source because of his ideology.

[Occam Bandage]

I have no doubt that some of what Brooks said is accurate. However, that doesn't mean Brooks is telling the entire story, either. It's true that if O and C both agreed to something, they could probably push it through. But we simply don't know the terms and conditions of the revote that the Obama camp nixed, nor do we know which conditions they were ready to accept, or do we know whether the Clinton camp rejected or accepted any proposals. All we know--taking Brooks at his word--is that at some point during the process, Clinton proposed a certain revote package that Obama shot down.

This might indeed mean that Obama was being a jackass and trying to keep MI from being represented. It might also mean that Clinton was overplaying her hand, and trying to secure concessions that had nothing to do with the revote, or that she wanted restrictions on the revote that the Obama camp disagreed with, or that the two camps couldn't come to an agreement on the funding for the vote.