Privately, aides to both Clinton and Obama say they prefer to see the issue settled this weekend.

[Why Syzygy]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-dems29-2008may29,0,6084656.story

Both campaigns and thousands of voters have been lobbying the committee members, who are used to working in anonymity. E-mail messages are flooding in. The 500 tickets set aside for spectators were snapped up within three minutes on the Internet.

At stake are the 368 delegates from Michigan and Florida, who were disqualified because those states held their primaries in January, earlier than allowed by party rules. Under the outcome Hillary Rodham Clinton has called for in recent weeks, she would pick up 111 more delegates than Barack Obama. That would narrow his lead in the delegate count and might position Clinton to argue to the party's superdelegates that they should throw the nomination to her.

But there is little support on the committee for giving the New York senator everything she wants. That leaves the panel with a second challenge: bringing Clinton, Obama and Democratic officials together in an agreement that unites the party and keeps bruised feelings to a minimum.

Should Clinton or her supporters come away feeling she was treated unfairly, they may prolong their argument all the way to the convention and hesitate to get behind Obama if the Illinois senator becomes the nominee. That outcome would leave the party weakened in its general election battle against John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee.

Privately, aides to both Clinton and Obama say they prefer to see the issue settled this weekend.
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What would it look like for a US Senator to disrupt her party's convention solely on the basis that she wants the rules changed to suit her ambition?

[TexasObserver]

1. Her hair is fake, her eyes are fake, her "experience" is fake. She's a fraud.

An overachiever who poses as a blue eyed, blonde haired, experienced politician. Everything about her is fake.

The DNC needs to bitch slap her back to February.

[Why Syzygy]

2. The difference is obvious.

Committee members are receiving a level of attention they neither imagined nor particularly wanted. One, Garry Shay, a former chairman of the Los Angeles Democratic Party, said he was receiving as many as 500 e-mails a day, which he tries to read and answer. "It's horrible; it's horrible," he said.

Summarizing the correspondence, Shay said: "Some of it is very emotional. Some is very dry and rules-based. Some of it is short. Some is very long and detailed, and some is threatening, as in, 'I won't vote for the other guy.' "

Clinton loyalists are expected to demonstrate outside the hotel. The Obama campaign has urged its supporters to stand down. "We don't think it's a helpful dynamic to create chaos," said David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager. "In the interest of party unity, we're encouraging our supporters not to protest."

from above article

[TexasObserver]

9. Obama is showing his usual good sense. Hillary is showing her ass, as usual.

Hill Dog's brownshirts in training are no surprise. They'll show up and make complete asses of themselves. But I agree with the notion that the delegates on the committee want to see this over, and will try to get it resolved. I do not believe Hillary can hold those delegates alleged to be "hers" to give her what she wants. These people know Obama is the nominee. They know that is not going to change, and to try to do so will take the party down.

[Window]

3. It would look like just what it is, a selfish, ego maniacal woman attempting to take the Democratic

Party hostage and her ransom demand is the nomination. Period.

[Why Syzygy]

5. Not very senatorial, is it? But we are to believe she would transform into someone presidential.

She is a crook no matter where she is.
Everywhere she goes, there she is! People don't change.

[Window]

8. No, it senatorial nor presidential. People have seen her true colors, and she is finished.

:crazy:

[casus belli]

4. Hillary has made it abundantly clear...

that the only solution she considers fair, is the one that omits Obama from receiving any votes in Michigan and restores 100% of the delegates. It's not going to happen, so I think it's fair to assume they already have their "we are disenfranchised voters" schpiel ready to roll out as soon as the news hits.

[Kokonoe]

7. More time and energy spent on hillary's road map to hell. nt

[MaineDem]

6. It'll be over within a week

I bet Dean will start calling in the Superdelegates to commit beginning Tuesday night.

Hillary will be able to say that all states have voted and can back out then.

[Why Syzygy]

10. I'm predicting she will hang on until June 19th

give or take two or three days. It's almost unbearable at times.

[NotThisTime]

11. I don't believe it, she will drag this to the Convention