Neither Senator Obama nor Senator Clinton can reach 2025 Delegates without the help of the Super Delegates. The remaining 343 Super Delegates will probability side with who gets the popular vote.

It looks like Barack Obama is going to try to disenfranchise the Michigan voter and make sure their vote won’t count or ever be counted with a new primary. If  Barack Obama does not get the 2025 delegates needed to win and tries to bully the super delegates to give him the margin while disenfranchising the voters of Michigan, this is not very democratic. The only one to blame if we have a brokered convention is Team Obama

As Michigan searches for a way to validate its delegates to the Democratic National Convention, the state party reports that Sen. Barack Obama's campaign has nixed the idea of a new "firehouse primary.''

The Detroit Free Press reports today that Obama's campaign told the state's top party official that they wouldn't accept Gov. Jennifer Granholm's (pictured at right) idea of a party-sponsored primary.

For the Canadians, a key point of concern was Obama's sharp criticism of the North American Free Trade Agreement. DeMora wrote Wilson that in the Chicago meeting, Goolsbee "candidly acknowledged the protectionist sentiment that has emerged, particularly in the Midwest, during the primary campaign" but reassured Rioux that Obama's NAFTA-bashing "should be viewed as more about political positioning than a clear articulation of policy plans."
Canada's Obama NAFTA Memo

AUMF was the only option the democrats had to stop and derail Bush from preemptive unilateral strike on Baghdad (a strike without a war declaration, without congressional approval and without much noise) and push the crisis to the U.N. where there was a chance and time to allow diplomacy to prevent war. AUMF and U.N. resolution 1441 weighed heavily on diplomacy and U.N. inspectors first, not war. A.U.M.F. was meant to send a strong message to Saddam "you better comply" and he did.

Why the I.W.R. vote was a vote for U.N. weapons inspectors and diplomacy, not war. Debate timeline: Authorization For Use Of Military Force Against Iraq.

"I just want you to know, if you do not give me something strong, I am already authorized, if you fail to do that, to use force against this fellow (Saddam)".


The Iraq War Resolution was a vote to give the sheriff a badge and a gun, it was not a vote to shoot up the town.