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Obama Says He Hopes to Seat Florida Delegation

During his opening remarks at a Kissimmee, Florida, town hall meeting, Barack Obama noted his pledged delegate majority, but admitted the campaign was not quite over. There are, after all, three more contests in Montana, South Dakota and Puerto Rico, and neither Democrat has secured the 2026 delegates to secure the nomination.

Obama announced he would be campaigning Saturday in Puerto Rico, and will continue to hold events in the western states yet to vote. And, in his second Florida event of the day - his first swing through the state since September of last year - Obama said he hoped the Florida delegation would be seated.

Of course Florida and Michigan were stripped of their delegates when the state moved their primary contests before the DNC’s rules permitted. While Clinton contends the validated results could propel her closer to victory, the Obama campaign has stated they were just playing by the rules and so did not campaign in the two states.

“My hope is in a couple weeks time, that we’ve won some more elections, we’ve won some more delegates, we’ve gotten the Florida delegation seated so that they’re gonna be at the convention. And then we’re gonna have a convention in August and I’m gonna accept that nomination and then you and I together  - we’re gonna have to work hard to make sure that we win Florida, we win this general election, and then you and I together we’re gonna change the country and change the world,” he said confidently to applause.

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Comment by Suzanne

The delegates should have been seated or voted over a long time ago. This whole ordeal has enabled Obama to gain an unfair momentum. The DNC needs to wise up and say that they will seat them all. Obama is scared to count them because he still thinks Hillary will find a way to win back support from the Supers. She could still win and he knows it. I hope that she does.

 
Comment by joe wis

ob is great.you want 48 states ok,you want 5o states ok he thinks there are 56 or was it 57 states okhe gives you or who ever he’s talking too what he thinks you can handle.of course all smoke

 
Comment by jmw

Suzanne, That was the plan from day one. I go vote when polls are open, and so does everyone else. They wanted to see if he can win without Fl and MI votes. Now he is so close, yes they will throw them a bone later to make sure they vote democratic. And the minute they are sure if ever, The votes will count, if it counts Hillary out. I would love to see Hillary run for independent. On Fox last night a lady said that would scare the dnc. I wish she would do it. Why should she be loyal the those manipulators. On one of the blogs last night, someone said something about they saw where the dnc tried to force the delegate of Ky to go for Obama anyway. I didn’t get into politics too much. Of course I do vote. The way I see it, is, you have delegates and the dnc makes up their mind who will win, and make sure that person gets in. Sorry I feel like Im in the twilight zone. I couldn’t believe after all the votes in Wv that traitor went for Obama. Wonder if they think if he is a terrorist, he will protect them They don’t realize that they are an end for a means and will go down with the rest of us. And if they hide as president he will know where they are. I guess he will have privy to all our defenses.

 
Comment by EALY

are you guys retarded? Obama has every right to challenge the seating of fla and mich. according to the rules that clinton had no problems with until now. instead he wants them to be seated. clinton wouldnt care about the seating of the two states if she was ahead.

 
Comment by weid man

Why on Earth would he want to seat the Florida delegates if his name wasn’t even on the ballot? Plus they’re Latino there whch is a demographic advantage for Hillary. Why not just wait till the superdelegates and the 3 states remaining vote THEN try to win Florida and Michigan? I mean he’s getting more and more superdelegates than Hillary is and he already has the majority of pledged delegates. Really he should be campainging hard in Puerto Rico so he can PROVE that he can win Florida. Whoever wins Puerto Rico will win Floirda. Sort of like the dominate theory.

 
Comment by Mr. J

Mr. Obama still doesn’t get it. We don’t want the likes of him any where on our ticket. All he has suceeded in doing is deviding the democratic party. We will never vote for such a disgusting young man. We don’t like his methods. His dishonesty. Both he and his wife’s views of America. We will see him at the convention and settle this.

 
Comment by rwethereyet

Ealy….And the Superdelegates HAVE EVERY RIGHT to endorse Hillary and give the nomination to her “ACCORDING TO THE RULES”.

 
Comment by KC

Clintin had no problem because she refused to split them with Obama, did you forget he wanted half of them and he didn’t win any of them or he didn’t want them to count. Gosh do all of you forget these little details?

 
Comment by KC

clinton so sorry

 
Comment by TJ

Obama made sure MI and FL were off the table to take the momentum from Hillary and now when FL and MI won’t do Hillary any good, he pretends that he always wanted them seated when it was Obama from the beginning who kept on saying no and stopping revotes and seating the delegates in the first place. I can’t stand him. I hope FL will vote overwhelmingly for McCain in NOvember to show this idiot that he doesn’t deserve to be president.

 
Comment by KC

Just like Obama doesn’t know the Indeans can leave the reservation any time they want and they do not have to pay taxes.

 
Comment by TJ

The pledged delegates don’t represent the will of the people. People vote and the delegates are allocated based on the votes. But when Clinton’s pledged delegates from Iowa and Nevada are allowed to switch to Obama and all of Edwards pledged delegates are allowed to switch to Obama, it just more proof that the pledged delegates don’t represent the will of the people. THe superdelegates, as Obama says, should respect the will of the people, but most of the MA super delegates were given to Obama when Hillary won by a whopping 15%. WV primary was won by Hillary by a landslide of 41% and Obama has gotten more superdelegates so far. He’s even won the coal miners union when Hillary has one ever coal producing state. This is just disgusting. We’re not really in a democracy here. MIght as well vote GOP.

 
Comment by KC

Oh yes and did you see on the news that dems want to put a millitry blockade in front of Iran so their ships can not come and go?

 
Comment by TJ

We should start a grassroots organization in every swing state to not let any Hillary supporter sit out but to have them all come out in NOvember and vote for John McCain so taht Hillary gets another chance in 2012.

 
Comment by Nobama!!!!

A letter was sent to the DNC explaining their concern about the shadiness of the DNC and this is how it was replied:

From: vimapo@aol.com
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxx@aol.com
Sent: Wed, 21 May 2008 1:51 pm
Subject: Re: nominee for our party

I have received a number of similar emails form the “Rule or Ruin” crowd. Bottom line, there will be more voters who care about America this November than sore losers and as a consequence Sen Obama will be the elected President.

All I have to say to the DNC is GOOD-BYE and GOOD RIDDENCE!!!!!

 
Comment by KC

Look at Kentucky last night and then at Obama, he won by alot but Hillery smashed him in Kent.

 
Comment by Rick V

I think it just goes to show you how manipulative the liberal left really is. They have “Superdelagates” so they can make sure the other politicians make they choice and not the people. I can’t believe the democratic voters are so naive that they will fall for this latest tactic. Obama thinks he has the nomination locked up so now he wants to play nice with the voters in Florida to make sure they don’t jump ship and vote for McCain and ensure he doesn’t carry the state. If they do fall for it they must be retarded.

 

Investigate the Larry Sinclair allegations. A Leopard cannot change its spots. Superdelegates need to respond.

 
Comment by KC

I think every single one should come out and not only vote but support his campain by showing it. Put signs in your yards and on your cars and everywhere so the DNC can see we will not vote Obama but McCain.

 
Comment by KC

You did see the $300 billion padded farm bill that Pres. Bush vetoed and they are going to over ride his veto and put it threw. Now that is the Dems.

 
Comment by EALY

KC,
in regards to attention to detail…clinton didnt win either. to claim a victory first have to have an opponent which she never had in mich. even though she ignored the rules. the plan to split them is far better than clintons plan which was give me all the votes. if obama had campaigned in mich. he would w/o a doubt have won half or at least a good portion of the state.

 
Comment by KC

Well they are going after Fox now accuse a few of their reporters as prejudice because they said Illegals are costing the working people taxes amd jobs.

 
Comment by KC

Now Mi was not her fault, if you take your name off the ballets you have no one but yourself to blame. I understand why he did it, the same reason he voted 107 times present on bills and taxes so no one would get mad at him. Yes I see how he will make changes.

 
Comment by KC

They were not told to pull their names he did that all on his own so he should live with it all on his own.

 
Comment by KC

Seems your against the Mexicans if you state facts. And the DNC has a man on the commity going after them so we know that it is being done by the DNC to try and control Fox too.

 
Comment by KC

Wake up and reseach before you vote. Go look up the bills and the taxes and the pork barrels and who is shelfing what and wasting what and backing what. Go look up what the theology of Trenity really is and then say it was jus Rev. Wright. Get you fingers busy and go look it up.

 
Comment by KC

Go look up the bill: Born Alive Infant Protection Act and see who blocked it? Then note when and how it got passed and who was not there, it may not shock you but it did me.

 
Comment by NinaK

KC stated: “Look at Kentucky last night and then at Obama, he won by alot but Hillery smashed him in Kent.
————–
KC, yes she did, just as she did in West Virgina and Pennsylvania. Do you know WHY? The governor of PA said it himself: “Whites here will not vote for a black man.”; the great majority of people in West Virginia and Kentucky are embedded in racism and bigotry and backwardness. Their education level is extremely low. They have not moved forward with the rest of America. As for Pennsylvania, all those Catholics who are so religious did not vote for Senator Obama because of the color of his skn. The same went for the majority of the population. I would say the governor of Pennsylvania knows his people very well! Hilliary takes great pride she is getting the votes from these racists and bigots….birds of a feather do tend to stick together!!

 
Comment by brian

Can a liberal out there decipher what the following quote from Barack Obama means?

“…we’re gonna change the country and change the world,”

How
What
Why
When
etc.

Would love to hear it.

He ain’t sayin’, but I have a clue. Just want to hear it from an acolyte.

Thanks

 
Comment by KC

Her win was 65% to his 30% his was 58% to her 42% he did not do all that hot in OR

 
Comment by naomi

EALY -

Speaking of attention to detail, your dolt Harvard Grad today actually said Arkansas borders Kentucky.

 
Comment by KC

And TN what was that one? I am white and I do not care what the color of a persons skin is, I care what the person has done, their morals, and if they take a firm stand on issues. Hillary an McCain may have flopped here and there but they did not vote Present 107 times. Congress makes all those great changes Obama claims and he can’t vote yes or no to 107 issues? How can he make changes when he never bothered when he could of actually done them.

 
Comment by brian

Ask an Obama lemming to describe three policy points Obama intends to champion.

They won’t be able to.

They’re voting on skin color, and nothing but skin color.

 
Comment by km

You Obama people can spin it anyway you want but the damage is done. Fl and Mi will go to the republicans in November. This b/s is too late.

 
Comment by KC

I was going to vote for Obama but when I heard about his church I stopped. I knew what it was before the news made it public. It is well know if you bother with keeping updated on christian churches and religous teachings.

 
Comment by brian

He’s a puppet of the black caucus and far left liberal elitists. He has ZERO original ideas. His big mouth wife tells him what to say when his handlers aren’t around. You can hear for yourselves what an oaf he his when he tries to wing it. Absolute spoiled brat pansie. Nothing more.

 
Comment by KC

I then went and started to check him out. I learned enough to make me know he is just a smooth talker who looks good and speaks with a stutter when put on the spot.

 
Comment by naomi

Obama is the only candidate this cycle who has done less than Hillary Clinton.

 
Comment by KC

Do not take my word for it go look up all his public records on the government site and go look up the pork barrels. Go look up the doctrine of Trinity, go find out for yourself what he really is.

 
Comment by KC

I can run for president and promise changes but that does not mean I can follow threw unless I become a dictator, as congress makes the laws, passes the taxes, passes the bills, declares war, does the over exstended with ear marks budgets, which he has millions in dollars worth, they spend our money so go look it up!

 
Comment by KC

Just once go and look it up.

 
Comment by EALY

brian,
so the many whites in oregon and other states voted for obama because he’s black??

 
Comment by KC

Gosh I get mad when I hear how all us dumb people without a degree do not know what we are talking about, at least we are not sheep lead by a leftest liberal bias media and DNC who lies, edits and puts words in peoples mouths. We bother to go and research what we want to know it it aint done on youtube.

 
Comment by susie

Obama is just trying to please the people in Florida so they will vote for him in November. What are his plans for Michigan?

 
Comment by KC

No they voted because they are younger, 33% black and educated. They do not go and research they beleive what they are told. Name some of his changes.

 
Comment by KC

Tell me how he is going to make these changes and what they are. I’d love to know about the ones we wont like.

 
Comment by KC

I would love it if one person would tell me what those changes we wont like will be. I can’t get an answer.

 
Comment by darrell

@KC
No they voted because they are younger, 33% black and educated.

Wow!!!

So the “smart” poeple are OLDER, WHITE and UNeducated?????

If so; explain Bush.

 
Comment by KC

I know he said 2 days ago iran was not a great threat and 2 days later he is calling them a hurendous threat. He says he will lower taxes then how he want to add taxes to our gas, as if that isn’t high enough, I know he wants to talk to terrorist, and now the speaker of the house annouces she wants a barracade to block Irans shippin industry. So tell me all about how great he is. I would love to know why I should vote for Obama and not from CNN or NBC or utube.

 
Comment by John_Lai

Obama’s message is basically “forget about the people, seat the delegates and that is all I need to get nominated”

The ultimate crime of democracy is to deny the voting right of people. OBAMA and his company did just that to stop any effort of re-vote, split the delegates evenly and ignore the results of election. do not allow any opportunity of revote.

People in MI and FL should get wise and give your opinions to BO directly or you may give your sentence in election time. What do you like about the democratic party when it is democratic no more?

 
Comment by EALY

KC,
you hold a good point in the fact that one should research obama themselves. but while you guys are digging, take a second and have a look at clintons track record. she could burry obama with the dirt she has in her closet. todays trail of tales article on hillary is only a fraction of what you would find on hillary.

 
Comment by KC

No and that does not wash. Most of the blacks 90% vote for Obama yet so far every one of the Obama supporters can not say what his changes are. He wins state that have a hgher black population and younger pop. That is fact not prejudice. I am simply saying vote from what you learn and not from what is said to you.

 
Comment by Jenny J

yeah. Obama really wants to seat the Florida and Michigan delegates - The day after the Democratic Convention is over. But he’s not to fat-headed and proud to suck up now in May, hopening to get their superdelegates.

Shows what kind of a person he really is.

 
Comment by New World Order

Wow, I cannot recall seeing so many uninformed, unintelligent comments.

Michigan and Florida tried to “One-up” all the other States by breaking the rules. I f Obama gives her the portions in Florida, and splits Michigan, it is a gift to that spinning, flip-flopping, liar.

Let’s put deleware in front of Iowa! How about California? No, how about Texas? What a bunch of freakin’ morons.

Obama will win the Democratic nomination, and bury McCain in November!

He flips and flops like a beached fish. His policy smells like one, too.

 
Comment by KC

I am talking about researching all of them not just one. Look at all of them then vote. Go research them all then do a comparison. Forget race, sex and age. Look into their voting on issues, their beliefs, their stands or lack of them. But use real sites. Goverment, and other sites that do not care who or what party you are.

 
Comment by New World Order

KC must be a “Hill - Bill - ieeeee”

 
Comment by KC

I am still waiting on what those changes i may not like are and I still do not have an answer.

 
Comment by New World Order

Her changing the rules, that she agreed to, in the middle of the game, is like playing five card draw, holding two twos, and suddenly calling deuces wild after the draw.

 
Comment by KC

Not hardly bud, I have a partial col. ed. and was in Corp. Banking. I have been a manager and hired and fired and done payrolls. I also see that when I sate facts and you don’t like them you revert to name calling.

 
Comment by New World Order

“Hill - Bill - Ickes”

 
Comment by New World Order

Yeah, you probably were in on the Mortgage scamming fiasco, selling low non-fixed rates to the ignorant with bad credit.

 
Comment by KC

That is one thing I find happens alot. When you want to tell people to go and look up facts or disagree with them they start with infintile name calling. Really shows what I mean. You make Obama proud.

 
Comment by Etcha Sketch

I cannot understand how Hillary has so many people believing her hype of “Count the Votes”. She doesn’t even believe its fair? She will do and say anything to get the vote I don’t trust her. I used to have respect for her, but she is one of the most divisive political figure out there. She should be ashamed of herself and she is playing on the emotions of women and Michigan & Florida voters to promote her strategy of “By Any Means Necessary”. Pitiful.

 
Comment by darrell

@ KC

No and that does not wash. Most of the blacks 90% vote for Obama yet so far every one of the Obama supporters can not say what his changes are. He wins state that have a hgher black population and younger pop. That is fact not prejudice. I am simply saying vote from what you learn and not from what is said to you

Until now; We’ve had to Vote for a white man or nobody. Funny that no one complained when we turned out in large numbers TWICE to vote for Bill Clinton.

 
Comment by New World Order

Try taking a dump when the truck drivers can no longer afford delivering toilet paper to your store, which has increased all their prices, and layed-off half of there staff.

 
Comment by KC

Actually the Bank I worked at dealt only with big business. We never did morgages. You really show every why we would not vote for Obama with your behaviour. Nice.

 
Comment by KC

everyone. not every.

 
Comment by New World Order

Ew, count the vote before a sniper hits her. She’s under sniper fire. Oh, she will answer the red phone at 3:00 a.m., though she is “sleep deprived”, making that sniper comment.

 
Comment by KC

Try asking the liberal far leftest why we are not pumping and using our own oil? Why are we telling forien coutrys to trash their land but we trash our oceans and shores with oil spills but by golly they saved the land.

 
Comment by New World Order

You can’t even spell.

 
Comment by New World Order

Must be a Clinton “uneducated white middle class” voter, which are now known as “Appalachians”.

 
Comment by John_Lai

The urgent and appropriate thing to say is “honour the votes of people”
Unless you seat all delegates as in the election, you must conduct a revote.

Anyone who place delegates above people confuse the issue that the democratic party is democratic-no-more by denying the voting right and the right of nomination of people in MI and FL.

If there is a rule, the same rule should apply to New Hampshire as well as in MI and FL. If the party pundits and Obama are still insisting on splitting the delegates evenly and ignoring the will of people, it would be fair for people of these two states to give their sentence to the party.

There are so many rotten politicians in this party that we need a new party.

 
Comment by New World Order

She quotes Karl “The Architect” Rove, goes on O’Reilly without having to defend any issue, and has Rush “Chaos” Limbaugh’s support. Smells like a Republican.

 
Comment by New World Order

They should have waited their turn like everyone else.

 
Comment by EALY

KC,
that so called younger pop crowd u speak of includes a great deal of whites. you have to give the majority of America more credit than to believe their votes are based on race. im currently serving in iraq on my third tour. i like obamas plan for bringing this iraq war to an end. which does not include a sudden withdrawal like hillarys so called plan. i like his “more than one way to skin a cat” approach in regards to countries like iran. the seek and destroy plan that mccain and bush live by clearly hasnt gotten us anywhere. also his tax cut plan isnt any less perfect than that of hillary. i have no problems with wealthy people paying a little more than usual to help our country.

 
Comment by jt

Obama is scared of counting millions of voters.

Obama must understand this is america. We count every single vote.

Obama knows Hillary is ahead.

 
Comment by darrell

@ KC

I am still waiting on what those changes i may not like are and I still do not have an answer.

I was saving this but……..(since I noticed you DONT respond to me; wonder why)

If Hillary became the nominee; what will change is that little white girls will grow up believing “I can be President”; and that’s noble. However………….

WHEN OBAMA TAKES THE OATH OF OFFICE ON 20JAN09………..E_V_E_R_Y little kid born in America will grow up believing “I can be President!!!!” Since this country has been described as a “melting pot” of different cultures; isn’t that a dream EVERY kid should have?

 
Comment by New World Order

Any “Real” Conservative Republican voter will vote for Reublican Bob Barr, on the Libertarian Ticket. McCain is a slippery beached fish, exactly like Bush.

 
Comment by Jeff X

Comment by darrell
May 21st, 2008 at 8:43 pm

@ KC

I am still waiting on what those changes i may not like are and I still do not have an answer.

I was saving this but……..(since I noticed you DONT respond to me; wonder why)

If Hillary became the nominee; what will change is that little white girls will grow up believing “I can be President”; and that’s noble. However………….

WHEN OBAMA TAKES THE OATH OF OFFICE ON 20JAN09………..E_V_E_R_Y little kid born in America will grow up believing “I can be President!!!!” Since this country has been described as a “melting pot” of different cultures; isn’t that a dream EVERY kid should have?
________________________________________________________________________________

If Obama becomes President it means any traitor can win the office

 
Comment by Cathy in Indiana

Anyone who votes for obama is Anti-American

Hillary or McCain ‘08 REAL AMERICANS

 
Comment by darrell

@ NWO

Ew, count the vote before a sniper hits her. She’s under sniper fire. Oh, she will answer the red phone at 3:00 a.m., though she is “sleep deprived”, making that sniper comment.

When I was in the military; snipers were the best marksmen. I wonder if the Serbian sniper, who couldn’t hit a 45 year old woman, has been courts martialed.

 
Comment by KC

darrell I am not talking about his race and I can understand why blacks would want to vote for him. It is the first time they have had the chance to vote for a black person, I’m saying look at the facts and research. Vote issues and nothing else. My family is mixed and we see what is going on but we also see it is sometimes both ways. I went to see my Aunt, she is black, I am not, I had to drive in an all black neighborhood and i was going slow so I could ask for the street, she moved and I did not know where the street was. I saw a group of men playing football. One ran over to my truck and punched me. I had not said or done anything and I am female. I know how it feels to be treat bad but not for the history the blacks have had. I am saying it is not color it is issues. If you and I held everyone of another race responsible for ingnorance in our race we will never be really free. You have to put the race aside and go with the issues when it is our president we are talking about.

 
Comment by darrell

@ REAL AMERICANS

What has this country gained from the TRILLIONS of tax dollars spent in Iraq? (that is ASSUMING that most of the REAL AMERICANS realize that since the invention of Nuclear BOMBS; no country that has them has EVER been invaded)

 
Comment by KC

When has the facts meant we have to be rude to each other?

 
Comment by 527 THE GIFT

You want it? You got it. We will release the video of Michelle Obama saying some not so nice things about white America. The night of the Democratic convention is when it will air. Just after they say Barack has won…… And watch the cellphones go nuts and the party stop….. So enjoy. Bye.

 
Comment by m-antony

obama is a lib. Weak on defense. Strong on taxing the people that hold this country together. That is right the people who hire, own businesses, invest, and obama wants to stick it to them. So, in effect, we loose jobs. And seek his” hand out government.” Will not work. There are too many freeloaders as it is now.

New world order. Those “uneducated white middle class voters”. They cling to guns and religion. Seems the south and Appalachian voters run congruent. I am happy to know that obama does not need these voters. You should really , just shut the ____ up !

But, you can not . Reminds me of , oh yea, obama.

 
Comment by New World Order

Cathy, Suzanne, and KC, are all full of it. State your candidate and tell why you support that specific one.

 
Comment by Constantine

You Clinton supporters are such sore losers. She started out with every advantage and the whole party machinery behind her and she blew it. She has lost by every single metric and she’s still whining because the “black guy” bested her and took what was rightfully hers.

 
Comment by Dwight

()ld words being used over and over again. #ppeasement

When Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987, which for the first time eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons, Buckley’s National Review dubbed it “suicide.” The Conservative Caucus took out a full-page newspaper @d saying “Appeasement is as unwise in 1988 as in 1938.” It paired photos of Reagan and Gorbachev with photos of Neville Chamberlain and H*itler.

Containment, negotiation, nuclear stability — each of these things helped protect the United States and end the Cold War. Nnd yet, at the time, conservatives thought each was synonymous with #ppeasement.

seems like when they used that @pproach the one using it ,@lways lost their battle.

history repeats itself. you hear it, 8 years proves the party in control has lost its way.

 
Comment by srKathleen

GOP, Karl Rove minions and right wingers in general:
Get used to 3 little words: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA! :)

 
Comment by KC

Look I’m going. I have tried to get answers that show intelligence not silly childish name calling. I can see why people stay angry with each other. Some of us never learn to respect others right to disagree. The lack of respect is showing and what does it say for the people we all support? Not very much. Not when we can state facts and still get a point across.

 
Comment by Jeff X

Comment by srKathleen
May 21st, 2008 at 9:03 pm

GOP, Karl Rove minions and right wingers in general:
Get used to 3 little words: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA! :)

Do you prefer to be addressed as COMRADE…or should I start every sentence addressed to you with “Allah Be Praised”?