Florida and Michigan

I am so biased toward Obama's candidacy at this point that I have a hard time getting angry about the injustice done to voters in Florida and Michigan. After all, if Clinton had an issue with their votes not counting she should have taken an issue with it back when Howard Dean said that that's what was happening. But she was too busy playing "the inevitable candidate" to care about those states working something out (at least that's the impression I'm under). So now she cares because she's no longer the inevitable candidate.

But in truth, in all fairness, voters in Florida and Michigan SHOULD have a say. It's not fair. Suddenly they can't have a say because their state's party leaders and the national party leaders got into a clash that to them was nothing more than obscure? I mean, that's just a really bad symptom of representative democracy at work. And Obama did not try his best to get their votes to count and most likely, that's because he wants to win this primary. But that's not fair. Hillary may be right: if Obama were to be consistent with his message, he would be fighting for them to have a right to vote. Yet then again, he didn't cause a stink about it a while ago either.

So the whole thing stinks. It really stinks. And disempowering Florida Democrats doesn't sound like such a bright idea nor does it end up helping Dean's 50 state strategy. I don't really know what went wrong but all I got to say is that it's not fair.