I feel like I did before the Iraq war...surrounded by propaganda and drum beating.

madfloridian

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Sat May-31-08 12:13 AM
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I feel like I did before the Iraq war...surrounded by propaganda and drum beating.

Only this time it is one of our own spreading the propaganda against our party. There is no truth on the local news or the newspapers about the real story behind the DNC sanctions. There is just spin.

The worst offenders are Bill Nelson, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Corinne Brown...congressional Democrats whose support for Hillary Clinton has clouded their vision of what a party really is about.

Corinne Brown has twice on TV fibbed that it was all Howard Dean's fault and called for him to step down.

She led the screaming at the DNC protest in April, saying they would shut down the convention. She is a speaker tomorrow.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz was caught on video responding to Howard Dean who said that rules are needed.

She said "we need to stop worrying about whether rules were broken and that all of this talk about the rules and that kind of thing is counterproductive".

Bill Nelson was recently on national TV doing the usual blame game on the national party. Here is the video from Morning Joe.

He even had the nerve to invoke religion when he said "come now and let us reason together."

I found some more names that are organizing the protest tomorrow in DC. They are big names, they are deadly serious.

Clinton Backers Plan Rules and Bylaws Protest

The cracks in the divided Democratic Party just got a little deeper.

A group of high-profile Hillary Clinton supporters, Democratic fundraisers and Florida Democrats is planning to hold a day-long rally Saturday outside the Washington hotel where the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee Meeting will be considering the fate of votes cast in the Michigan and Florida primaries to call attention to what they say is the exclusion of women's voices from the democratic -- and Democratic -- process and the disenfranchisement of Michigan and Florida voters.

"Our purpose is not to divide the party or attack the DNC or Senator Obama," said the Hillary Rapid Responders, one of the rally planners, in an online announcement of it. "At the same time, Hillary's strong support cannot be dismissed in DNC efforts to unify the party."

Of course the purpose is to divide, of course it is.

The event is being co-organized by the Women Count PAC -- founded by five top Clinton supporters, including longtime Clinton friend and fundraiser Susie Tompkins Buell and Stacy Mason, a former editor of Roll Call - -and a coalition of disparate other groups working under the umbrella of the New York-based group Count Every Vote '08. It will draw together some of Clinton's most loyal backers and be emceed by Jehmu Greene, the former president of Rock the Vote who sat on the DNC committee that spent 2005 trying to reform the party's primary process.

Announced speakers so far include National Organization for Women President Kim Gandy and Florida Democratic congresswoman Corinne Brown. Organizers say that they expect individuals to come in from 26 different states for the rally, as well as some major celebrity speakers, and that they are receiving logistical assistance or other support from the pro-Clinton United Federation of Teachers and EMILY's List. The group Florida Demands Representation, organized by James Hannagan, will also be there.

The rally was the brainchild of a young Clinton fundraiser and New York attorney who is a member of Count Every Vote '08, according to the group's spokeswoman Karen Feldman, a political consultant from Hudson, N.Y., who specializes in female candidates. Count Every Vote '08 first came together in mid-March to lobby Democratic superdelegates on behalf of Clinton. "When we started we were a group of women primarily supporting Hillary Clinton," said Feldman of the initial team, which also included legendary N.Y. Clinton fundraisers Ricki Lieberman, Pamela Hayes, and Barbara Layton, as well as Allida Black, the project director and editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt papers at George Washington University who has known Clinton for years through human rights circles.

These are serious people, and they mean business.

Hillary can stop it, she can reign these surrogates in. She can stop encouraging these protests.

In the movie recount, it was us against them. In the 2008 version playing out in living color in my state....it is us against us.