Finally…..Now move around…

Honestly though, the views of Reverand Wright are a huge revelation. This is the guy Obama let advise him for 20 years?! Haven't we learned from Bush that bad advisors lead to awful and permanent damage to everyone concerned?? That guy is racist, that guy hates America, and that guy has Obama's unwaivering trust and confidence! Obama says he wasn't at this speech or that speech, but it's not like the guy changed his core values or his central message for those days of Obama's absence. After 20 years and a close personal friendship, you know where a guy stands and apparently you stand there too.

Bad decision!!! Wave good bye to any hopes of a Democrat winning Florida. I don't care if you blame Dean or the Florida Democratic Party. There is plenty of blame to go around. Dean has taken an perfect opporunity to win back the White House and has screwed it up just like his Presidential run in 2004. Resign Dean!!!

In 2000 republicans did not want to count the votes of democrats in Florida. In 2007 democrats do not want to count the votes of democrats in Florida. Is it not obvious that Florida is a republican only state that should first secure its border by building a fence between them and the USA, and once it is secure they should expatriate back to the USA all the illegal democrats that have sneaked in over the years.

ok, Obama haters….read the article…he had nothing to do with this…

I can hear it now. "Obama is not letting FL have its vote!!"

Watch for a DNC push to have the delegates seated anyway, paving thte way to move the nomination to Hillary Clinton.

Looks like Howard Dean really studied the elections of 2000.

I think you are making a big mistake by not making an effort to have a primary election, especially since we have this pastor - Obama situation. He will not get my vote if he is the nominee. Be prepared
for 4 more years of McBush!

Florida should have a new and fair election. Allow the candidates to campaign and the voters to vote. Following today's speech by Obama, I am confident that the American public who are open to bridging the gaps in our society and making America a society that cares for all of its people will rally behind Obama and that he will be our next President.

If I lived in Florida I would be outraged. Voters should not be punished for decisions made by politicians.
If no new vote…then count the votes from January…all candidates were on the ballot…Clinton ran a fundraiser and Obama has a few televisions ads play…..sounds like a fair vote to me….NOBODY campaigned. No unfair advantage to any candidate.

Essentially l think the delegates should be split equally,thats the only fair outcome,Florida is represented,and none of the candidates is disadvantaged.Hillary clintons manipulative strategy,is dead in the water,and boy am l ellated.

Let Florida seat the delegates as they are or hold new elections. We need to count Florida elections, else we loose the state to Republicans in Nov. No splitting of Florida 50-50 between Obama and Clinton. With news about the pastor out, I doubt if Obama can even do as better as he did in Jan.

Uh, Ann, Obama wasn't getting your vote anyway, and you very well know it. The bottom line is that both Democrats and Republicans in Florida approved this ascinine move. Rules are NOT made to be broken. What does that teach our children? And we wonder why so many young people have no respect for laws. It's because the adults in this country don't even respect simple rules.

If their votes don't count, so what. Last year, Clinton was opposed to allowing Florida to vote, which is no suprise, especially since Terry McCauliffe was the chair of the DNC. Of course, now he is her campaign manager. Coincidence? I think not.

Oh, and another thing, Ann. Isn't this ticker about the revote? Let it go.

Well, Ms. Thurman, I hope you're happy when Florida goes to the Republicans in November. I and everyone I know will vote for McCain before we vote for Obama.

And I am going to reregister as an Independent since I can no longer stand to call myself a Democrat.

Blame the Florida Democratic Party Leadership for this mess. They are the ones who disenfranchised their voters, took it away from them for what….an early primary, was it worth it…….NO.

What a way to rip the people off from their constitutional right to vote! Florida screwed up in 2000 and now they are doing it again. Seriously, is the sun really baking into your brain that much?

Bad decision on this. If Obama does get the nomination, it will be under the same conditions that Bush won election in 2000. Obama will not be a legitimate candidate. At this point, it is really bad as Obama is un-electable, given his relationship with his pastor. No matter how you spin, a candidate with these values should not be in the White House.

To: The DNC and the Florida Democratic Party..

Today I mailed my change document to the County Supervisor of Elections with my new selection of : Undecided (independent) for party afiliation.

Guess where this former lifelong Democrat will be placing his trust in the future?

Obama had NOTHING to do with Florida's decision. If anyone will not vote for Obama because of Florida's decision, they probably are using it as an excuse because they were not going to vote for Obama anyway!

Do i hear the Republicans laugh ???

txpoodoo posted: " ok, Obama haters….read the article…he had nothing to do with this…

I can hear it now. "Obama is not letting FL have its vote!!"

Why dont you read the responses before posting? No one said anything of the sort. I hate Obama and his followers but am not blaming the Florida situation on Obama.

We need Hillary!

Obama has to much problem: NAFTA problem, Iraq withdrawal problem,Rezko problem, Pastor problem, foreign policy problem, change of what change problem and who know what else…

Obama will still get my vote, I don't judge men on 20 second soundbites from their friends.

I love how the people of Florida are whining about the democrats causing the problem, when it was the REPUBLICAN controlled congress and REPUBLICAN governor of Florida that caused the problem to begin with. Gov. Crist did this for this very reason, knowing that many of his residents would be to stupid to realize who screwed them and blame the Democrats.

TOO BAD!

You reap what you sew.

That big gust of wind you feel is the collective groans and whining of all the now "disfranchised" liberals whose state couldn't play by the rules.

Seat them as they voted originally!

CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT!

I concur with some of the remarks about Howard Dean but quite frankly, the Florida Democratic Party bears some of the blame for this, don't they? Had they not been greedy and moved up their primary, WITHOUT PERMISSION, this would not be happening. Florida screwed themselves AND the Democratic party.

Everybody will blame Obama, they do for everything. This was agreed to before the primary, so why change the rules now. If Hillary was ahead, I bet she wouldn't want to change the rules, but she isn't and so we go on and on until she figures out a way to win. I am getting sick of this election process.

Whatever Ann, you just talk to talk, learn how to walk the walk. When time comes to cast the ballot in the general election, you will be the first one to vote for Obama.
Obama 08

It is the GOP leadership in Florida that caused this situation. They planned this to disenfranchise democrats.
Blame Gov Criss from Florida not Howard Dean.

In a Sep 30, 2007 article in the Tampa Tribune. Obama said he "will do right by FL voters."

Why are people talking about Obama in this blog. Sure it's a critical issue in this election, but I thought this particular blog was talking about how Florida's votes won't count…

Ohh watch out here comes Hillary and Bill with law suits……… she will not like this watch out, she will start going nuts again. Even so she agreed to FL and MI not having their votes counted NONE is saying that…now she wants them counted..
pleazze Hillary go away. ohh Bill too oohh Chelsea too

If you act stupid, you are stupid.

Blame your Govenor people. They completly understood the rules and thought they were above us all (again) .

Do not disinfranchise the people who did not vote because we were told it would not count ! (and the numbers prove it)

This is a real shame for the voters in Florida.

Obama should have pushed for this. Now, he looks 1) scared of losing, & 2) like he doesn't really care about these voters.

Unfortunately, though it helps Hillary …it doesn't help where it counts - earned delegates.

This will be the 1st election in my life where I will not vote Democrat.

Another "victory" for that political genius Howard Dean.
Dean runs the DNC as well as Rumsfeld ran the Iraq War.

This is garbage - this is the democratic machine pushing Obama into the nominee position because they want a puppet on a string and Hillary is too strong for that. If they don't give her the votes or revote - this will be the democratic mistake of the century and it will be unfair to Hillary and will be favouring Obama. This is plotted in the back rooms.

The Democrats have just sealed a Republican victory in November.

I am very disappointed that my vote is not going to count. The Florida voters had nothing to do with the date of the primary being moved. The Democratic Party need some changes.

No more super delegates!
No more slpitting up the delegates. It should be winner takes all.
States should be allowed to have thier primary any time the want.
You must be a registered democrat to vote in a democratic primary.

If we did this tere would not be a problem and Hillary Clinton would be the nominee

It's truly a shame that basically we voted only not to have our vote count.. where is the fairness in this?

Can we all just get beyond Florida and get back to really important matters, like uniting the democrat party, like getting back the lead McCain is beginning to steal while the 2 dems are pre-occupied with personally ripping each other to shreds…Enough already!

This is antithetical to the spirit of America, the spirit of democracy. To disenfrancise the voters of a whole state who held a perfectly legal and fair election, is the stuff tyranny is made of. Either the stated will of the voters of Florida will be recognized, honored and included, or this primary season is a farce. An injustice to one, is an injustice to all.

Thank Goodness. This is very beneficial towards the Obama camp.. Chances are, he would have lost to Hillary in Florida. I believe the delegates will be seated 50/50. Good news for the Obama camp.

Just count the votes that you have. the vote was not partial to either party, all were on the ballot. Obama ran ads in Florida for about a week , Hillary or John Edwards did not. Give them their delegates.

Hey Arnold does Farwell and Swaggert speak for you. Obama is an individual he thinks and speaks for himself-get over it.

NoBama!
He is not ready!

In a Sep 30, 2007 article in the Tampa Tribune, Obama stated he would "do right by the FL voters." We'll see.

I live in FL. I am a Democrat, I voted. For those who don't know there where several state and local issues on the ballot that I wanted to vote on in addition to the Presidental Primary. Those who didn't vote because they said the primary wouldn't count don't have any say, they also didn't vote for all the local issues. I want my vote counted.

Michigan should revote because Obama was not on ticket. However everyone was on it for Florida so there is no excuse they cannot stand as it is. Hillary won that state legitimately. It is unconstitutional under the 14th amendment to disallow Florida just because they held it early. Their delegates should count as is.

I am thrilled that someone has the backbone to say NO to a revote
It is about time we do as intended the first vote and stay within the
guidelines that were set.
Thank You
Patty Schoech
Missouri

Good. Don't waste money to get about the same response.

Good…..we have enough people in this state begging for handouts.

There is one simple way of resolving this problem. The DNC could decide that the voters did nothing wrong and should not be punished for the actions of a few legislators and Party officials. They could seat the delegates, count the votes, and put the interests of millions of voters ahead of their pride. Tell the people who created this problem that they can't watch CNN for 3 days as punishment but that the voters must not pay the price for their mistakes.

That decision would require maturity so it will probably never happen.

Even with Clinton taking Florida at the percent of the now-nixed primary, she gains a total of 36 delegates over Obama. This is nowhere near enough to make up the difference. Add in a win in PA and she still lacks enough delegates to overtake Obama. (Michigan really is out of the question to any 'fair player,' as Obama was not even on the ballot. But perhaps that's the way Clinton likes to "win.") Summing it up, any Clinton supporter with third grade arithmetic can see that Clinton cannot overcome Obama's lead. All she can do at the best is get close enough to hope the super-delegates will hold their noses and vote for her over the guy who really won.

Let's see just how honest Obama is about his 20 YEARS OF SUPPORT FOR THE RADICAL CHURCH today. I can here the claim of ignorance now. What a liar.

Folks, Hillary REALLY needs to be our next president.

Great! Now award Clinton and Obama the delegates they won.

Hillary 2008!

Barack,
I am from Illinois. I have watched the politics. I am really sad at the current state of affairs.

You have stood for "Judgement" and then make the "Judgement" to follow this type of Pastor. It was the worst form of "Judgement"

and now…. to save your political aspirations, you will split the American Democratic Party in half.

Judgement… is making the decision to give up your quest for the nomination and support Hillary, with the expectation you will be VP. See, this allows you to be seasoned… it allows all of us to see you… and come to know what type of Man you are.

Please, in the sake of Christ…. and the light of love… do not push your political aspirations to the point you hurt the very nation you say you do love….

With love,
Sharon

Florida did this to move their primary ahead on the calendar. Now the jig is up with just a few states eliminating many of the candidates before all get to vote.

Now is the time to plan for the next primary while this is fresh on our minds. All the states at the same time. No more focus on one or two states who get to meet all the candidates and eliminate some that others in different states would like to vote for.

You people posting on here about Obama's spiritual advisor make me sick. Quit trying to spread the racial fears and get off this blog!! Obama 08!

Florida broke the rules and so did Michigan. That the way it should
stand. If the rules keep changing the DNC will loose all credibility.

Break the rules, pay the price. Now, the voters of Florida need to express their opinions about how their arrogant public servants have basically disenfranchised an entire state by refusing to follow simple rules that were clearly and articulately spelled out to them.

Great, Now give Hillary her Win and seat her delegates!!!

Michigan and Florida have no one to blame but their own state officials. Both these states knowingly broke the rules and yet somehow people are spinning to blame this on Obama. I am a McCain supporter but the ignorance of some Clinton supporters really makes me wonder.

Facism. Pure and simple.

God Bless America.

Maybe they should have just done it right in the first place. I feel like Florida is trying to come off as the small kid who is getting bullied by the bigger kids. Follow the rules, and you won't have to try to come up with a solution to re-vote.

Ann, Obama would'nt have got your vote anyhow. Some of you people kill me nowing that you are Republicans and making a comment like that only to divide the Dems. Who ever we get Obama or Clinton we will get behind them a win back the white house.

Okay everbody, scream like Howard Dean. EEEEEEEEEEEHAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

good for them, and us..

If the Dem do not want to hear the voices of Florida Dem the Republicans will. Instead of Dem staying home on election day and not voting perhaps they should vote for McCain at least the republican party will count their vote for sure

Obama already vocally denounced and condemned those words. The guy is a pastor that didn't usually make these kinds of political/racial themed diatribes, he preached at the church Obama attended.

All the Clinton shills trying to desperately make something of this are just prolonging her long, disgusting fall.

And Florida's voters deserve to be heard, but they only have their OWN party leaders in the state to blame. No one was complaining LAST YEAR when the decision was made, did they? The local idiots who did this need to be voted out of their office… not given another chance in the spotlight. Whatever happened to personal responsibility?

After researching this I am only to conclude the democratic voters of Florida did'nt want a revote. That's thier choice. Time to move on and for the news to focus on real problems like the economy. If the president had not repealed the laws in 1998 we would'nt be haveing a potential econicic disaster in the wings.Enuf said

Thanks goodness Florida doesn't count. How can we rely on the state that gave us George Bush in 2000 and had Congress convinced that Terry Schiavo was an energy drink away from becoming a professional dancer!

But Robert.., what arrre we going to do with all those senior women(Hillary's supporters)??

Florida has messed up enough elections We should cut Florida loose from the United States and give it to Mexico or Cuba. Let them vote on it

I know the Obama people are happy. But if it was a Obama favored state being taken away. The Obama people would be crying.
To be fair lets split the delegates in ILL 50/50

Good florida should be counted as is. due to unbeliable turn out! if they didnt think their vote counted why turn out.

a revote would only work toward obamas favor anywyas because theres less people in the race now

Arnold, get a life I'm willing to bet that you have a grandfather, father and/or brother that use racist remarks maybe even using the N word, do that make you a bad person?

GOOD Maybe they will honor the millions of voters who made the effort to have their voice heard in the first place! They shouldn't waste millions of dollars, the votes should be counted AS IS

Obama's name was on the ballot, so it's fair (besides the fact that he broke his pledge and advertised on CNN!) Anyway, Hillary still beat him!

The Democratic Party needs to get its act together if they want to win the white house this November, and yes Howard Dean must go.

While I wanted to see them do a re-vote, I'm happy they at least came to a decision now instead of dragging it out until June.

Obama will be the demo nominee of 48 states not 50

What a mess! No suprise, poor leadership all the way around. Say good bye to the Presidency Dem's because they sqewed you. The DNC deserve what they get. I'll be registering as a Independent, needless to say.

I fill that this is the right way to go. WE have to show our young voters that you don't get redos if you don't like how things turned out. When you break the rules you have to suffer the penalty attached. I hope the same thing happens in Michigan. Puts a little more faith in the democrats that make the decisions thank -you for not disappointing me at least in Florida. Michigan act like adults take your punishment for breaking the rules

Hooray for democracy! We have done our founding fathers proud! (Sarcasm.)

Florida made the right decision, for all in Florida who don't think so, get ride of the people running your Democratic Commitee for your state. They disappointed you not the DNC or your country.

Have you ever noticed that at Hillary rallies there is always someone who supports Obama there being a Heckler? Also like this past weekend, When Hillary was in a Parade, Obama supporters were chanting mean things. These are the kind of people supporting Obama. They are not bringing us together, they are dividing out party. This scares me.

Blame your state officials!

No one was complaining when this was decided months ago. Not unti Hillary saw she actually had a chance! A decision can't be undone whenever one decides. Get Over it!

Clinton only cares about the Florida delegates because they favor her. If the shoe were on the other foot, she would be taking the postion that the DNC made a decisiona nd they should stick with it. That's The CLinton brand of politics for you. What's good for the Clintons is best for the coutnry. Me, I don't buy it. This is what makes their political stances so inconsistent.

GO OBAMA!!!
HATE WILL NOT WIN THIS TIME!!!

Sharon, you are asking the person winning to drop out? In what way does that make sense?

Henry: You are trying to change the rules to support your candidate! Obama has more votes, so why should Hillary get the nomination? Becase she won some bigger states? If you really want to be fair, just award the nomination based on majority votes. No delegates at all. That's the only "fair" way to do a "winner take all". You can't put more emphasis on larger states, or you cheat the smaller states by stating that they don't matter.

RE: March 18th, 2008 9:01 am ET: "ok, Obama haters….read the article…he had nothing to do with this…I can hear it now. "Obama is not letting FL have its vote!!"

No, but his campaign is purposely dragging its feet on a revote in Michigan.

If my vote did not count now,,,forget about November!!!!

Alexandra get your facts straight. You can't blame this on the GOP. The DNC is to blame for setting the rule to not seat the delegates. It wouldn't matter who they voted for the party decided and all the candidates agreed to it. HRC will not give this up until they pull it from her cold dead fingers.

Obama made the choice to remove his name from the Michigan ballot. That was his poor judgment. Don't blame it on the voters who had no say in the entire fiasco.

The United States is of 50 states not 48. This isn't about Hillary Or Obama . It is about the voters right to vote.

Spirit of America:

I believe if this was actually a government sponsored election everyone would agree. However this is not. It is a primary vote held by a private club so to speak, the democratic party. They get to set any rules they choose. If they wanted to select their nominee by the color of the voters hair they could.

its fair and rules are rules if people of fl,mi want someone to blame youe should start with your local goverment not the howard dean

Florida and Michigan violated the rules. They should be penalized. Elected officials who represent constituents from these states, need to be removed form office come time for elections.

I am also surprised the people did not speak up about this in their states.

I think that Florida should just consider the results they have in hand because both candidates were in the ballot.

Why is if Florida can't figure out how to voate for a president? Two elections running they can't seem to deal with it. Is it the alzheimers of the retired or the burgeoning english-illiterate Cuban population?

Newsflash:

If you talk bad about Obama for using speech-writers, you're stupid. Seriously. Every politician uses them.

If you still think the NAFTA issue was about Obama, you're not paying attention.

If you call Obama a liar, and support Hillary, you're perhaps too dumb to be allowed to vote.

Why don't they seat the Florida delegates as both candidates were on the ballot. Then I suggest re-vote Michigan. I also think Howard Dean should pay as he is the one who got us in this mess by not allowing the vote to count. It is not very democratic and the Democrats will lose in General Election if Fl and MI are not seated.

bush didn,t get help to new orlean,s . now obama don,t want to count the people in florida if obama dosent drop out mccain win,s everyone know,s this ecept obama !

Give Florida a re-vote. Do not hold the voters accountable for the mistakes of the nit-wits who changed the date. This is a democracy. Their vote should count.

The whole idea of a primary is to get the most electable to represent both parties. Let the process complete itself. Let the voters speak.

how fair is this then?
Those people do not belong to the USA?
Let's make this country even more divided!
Where is the logic and fairness in this?

This is not right! This is manipulation - unfair manipulation.
I do not think I will vote for Dems at all if those votes will not be counted.

the florida legislature knew what it was getting into. the broke the rules and now have to face the consequences just like any other person who breaks the rules or law!

its there fault.now they'll probly lose alot of people for this

if you need to punish someone, punish the politician who decided, let him him pay for revoting!
But this is ridiculous, not right. These are circus politics. Unfair to people.

com'on people don't mix politics and religion otherwise it becomes an ugly, nasty, bitter cocktail and hard to swallow. Obama believes in God, and there's only God besides he made it clear he rejects his pastor's statement isn't that enough!. Talk about issues people after all that matters the most. By the way… Obama 08

My family and our friends announce today we will change our party affiliation from Democratic to Independent/Republican and will vote for Republican/Independent candidates in the general election.

Unbelieveable…….How can a state like Florida not be counted? The people in Florida need to vote…….I thought we lived in a democratic country. If Florida's votes are not counted we can no longer preach democracy around the world.

David - you are correct Hillary does NEED to be the next president only to satisfy her own insecurities. Hillary may have this need. The United States of America doesn't need Hillary to be president. Offer her Senate Majority Leader. This will give her lots of power. Something she craves.

For goodness sakes just seat them.It was a real vote -Obama was on the ticket as was Hillary-so it was a level playing field.

Someone please explain to me what is so bad about splitting the delegates 50/50? This way the people of Florida and Michigan will be represented.

bigben, why would we split the ILL delegates 50/50? Obama dominated that state fair and square. Also, I am very interested to see what Obama says in his speach today. I am not going to judge the man by a sound bite from his pastor. I go to church every Sunday and I would be lying if I said that I always agree with everything my Pastor says.

The Demorcratic Party, their National Committee and Chairman should realize that disenfranchizing Florida and Michigan voters is not a very good idea. Especially in light of what happened in the 2000 election. Nuff said.

You people throwing fits about Florida and saying you'll vote for McCain are hilarious.

The GOP legislature in your state can't believe how good a job they did. They never expected to get your vote but in your somewhat twisted mindset, you're going to give the machine just what it wants.

This is hilarious. You've become pawns in the Republican game plan.

To all you Obama supporters, WAKE UP, Hillary won the Florida primary of Obama was on as well. Count the previous votes and seat the delegates, after all the people that got out and voted have the same rights as the rest of us. If it was not for the REPUBLICAN controlled legislature in Florida, this would not have happened….

Amen to Reality Check #1…….There were ads on TV by Obama, but I didn't see any for Hillary. She did come to FL for a fund raiser, I believe, on election day. There was the biggest turnout in voter history. COUNT OUR VOTES! We wouldn't have gone to the polls if we thought our votes wouldn't count and why would they be proportionately given to someone else. Obama's argument is they didn't campaign here???? Not so Mr. Obama. We Floridians do watch TV and saw plenty of your spots! Hillary won, fair and square, so COUNT OUR VOTES!!!!!!!!! How democratic is do-overs in elections??????

I will never post here again.

This is the right move. Sorry Hillary folks……..you'll aren't reading the vibes from the DNC. NO MORE CLINTONS……to high maintenance. Afraid you will have to vote for McCain. Its okay though Obama will do just fine with out ya's…considering all the new and Independents we are attracting. All of this negative stuff that you have been shelling out should work just fine on the other side. BYE

Florida and Michigan knew the rules, had agreed to the rules and then decided to rebel against them. What good are rules if the penalties for violating them can be avoided?

And Obama has consistently said that he has always used his good judgement in differing with Reverend Wright on many of his views. I trust Obama.

I am proud today to be a Floridian. I don't want MY tax dollars to be respent on another primary. I wouldn't care if it was Democrat or Republican.

If they won't do a re-vote, they need to seat them as is. People didn't vote just to be ignored in the end.

The DNC rule cannot and should not have the constitutional or legal right to remove the sovereign votes of Americans!

This is pathetic, the Democratic Party has failed me for the last time! Thank you for ignoring my vote in selecting the party's representative! I doubt I will ever vote Democratic again!!!!

I don't understand why everyone is saying that no one in Florida will vote for the democrats now. The republican governer, Crist, is the one that moved up the date. I wish people knew where to direct their anger….

God is Good all the time, and God has and always will bless the USA.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are both up to the Job as President

However this is a Job for a new person the Clinton needs to answer a lot of unaswered questions like the Dubia Poet World Deal and all of that new money!!!!!!!!!!

Florida should stand as it is no one campagined there Michigan should be recast that is fair in my opinion.

see how easy is to loose an election…. there you go. Concratulations Howard Dean… you are making a career out of loosing elections. I hope you were a better DR.

As an Independent I look at this mess and ask myself — do I really want these same people running my country?!

You break the rules you pay for it. Go after the people that brought you this wonderful moment. Not the DNC

its about time florida, that you accept the punishment for violating the rules, AND for God sakes Hillary, stop whining! your whining is losing support very quickly !!

This is all Hillary's fault. She stirred up this hornet's nest in the first place. Now, her and her pants suits have damaged the Democrats chance of winning Florida . . . although there was never much of a chance for that anyway!

Obama stil gets my vote. I have the sense to read and find out what is going on and not let the media spoon feed me crap.

Why bother with a revote-Since neither candidate campaigned here–use the votes already cast.
They were cast in good faith and desrved to be counted!

Let us have our voice back.

OBAMA 08.

No law and rules are higher than the Constitution and people's voting rights.

I know you Obama haters are mad but the rules are the rules. I would hope that you would support the nominee whoever it is. Please bury the hate and let's change for the better.

HRC supporters, stop pretending this will impact the November election. Most people in FL don't know and/or care about this "inside baseball" stuff. When the election comes in November, nobody will be thinking "well, they didn't seat the delegates at the convention so I'm not going to vote!" Stop 10 voters randomly on the streets and 8 of them will have no clue what a convention delegate is!

THIS IS OUTRAGOUS !!!! Howard DEAN…. BE A MAN FOR ONCE and DO SOMTHING !!!

THIS IS AMERICA - WHERE WE HAVE RIGHTS TO BE HEARD!!!

VOTES NEED TO COUNT AS THIS IS THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE !!

Does one get do-overs as President?

I'm disappointed… *pouts*

Obama is making a mockery out of the United States and the American people. People are following this guy like blind mice, while he laughs in our faces with his anti-American, anti-white sentiments.

Where in the constitution does it say that the DNC has the authority to NOT allow votes from any state of the union to be counted and their voices to be heard?

Stop blaming Dean. Gov. Crist and the republicans are the demons here. THEY voted to move up the dem primary, NOT the dems.

The commenters who say they are going to vote Republican just because they are annoyed by the Florida voting situation are ignorant and childish. Way to run the country even further into the ground.

My Question: Did the 795 Superdelegates (now 793; minus Liebermana nd Spitzer) include Superdelegates from Florida? I know the 210 pledged delegates from Florida were not included, but I am wondering if the Florida Superdelegates are being punished as well. Seems only fair, since they were the ones who created this problem by initiating the legislation to change their Primary to January 25.

Anyone, anyone, Bueller?

If florida votes are split equally, it is same as havign no election. Why is then Michican holding election if votes can be split equally. This is not democracy. Votes should be counted as they are or revote needed.

Oh yeah…I hear my fellow republicans laughing!

We republicans don't have to worry about winning the presidential election this year….

The Democrats are losing it for themselves.

JMHO,

Mary

Well, this would not even be an issue had Obama won in Florida and Michigan….you all know very well that Hillary would not even consider the option of letting their votes count had she not won. It would be hands down that the decision was made before the election and that FL and MI did not have to vote when they did but they chose to. The residents of the these two states need to not blame Washington, Republicans, or Democrats but blame instead THEIR ELECTED OFFICIALS who SCREWED the whole thing up. HAD they followed the rules of the DNC this would not have happened.
As far as Obama and his minister are concerned…let us not forget that Hillary's top advisor had just been in the news for her racial comments about Obama not even having a chance if he were black. This country may have came along way through the years but there are still very serious racial tensions all across America. We can say what we want but this campaign is about if America is ready to accept a new type of person in the White House—a woman? A black man? or a man who has a war agenda-all but wait we already have one of those in the White House already. Needless to say…I don't think America is capable of making a decision based on the issues. Unfortunately, many still just see a black man or a white woman. Sad.

Would it be legal for both Florida and Michigan to just divide the delegates evenly between the two candidates? That way both states could "save face" and the candidates would not be penalized.

Hey Demwit !!!…your the reason those old ladies fought for the right to abortion ! your mentality doesn't need to multiply !

We don't want Obama. We don't need him. Go away with your UNCLE Wright! Count the votes in Florida or Demorat will have a big lost in November. We, a large group of Hillary supporters in Dallas Texas have pledged that, no vote for Obama if he is nominated.
COUNT IT NOW!

I feel that they knew if the primary was held in Jan. Florida's delagetes would not count. They made the decision to do it anyways, so be accountable for the choice.

If you were stupid enough to vote in Florida when the whole world knew your primary election was disqualified because your state party broke the rules, then, perhaps you really deserve what's happened. The time for you to be outraged was when Florida was disqualified.

I say keep at it you 2 (Clinton & Obama), you will solidify the split Demo vote and McCain will win! The lesser of the 3 evils! Hillary has already proven that her "hormones" get the better of her when she doesn't get her way. And I say this as a WOMAN people!!! The woman is down right scarey.

Florida needs to get their act together. Elections in Florida have had problems for years now. There are all kinds of voter irregularities. That state needs to stop whining and clearn up their act.

This is NOT the end of the world, people. It's only a case where someone didn't follow the rules and received an appropriate consequence. WHO is getting harmed? No one, absolutely no one.

Even Hillary can live with this if she really tries. What's next for her? More pouting, crying, complaining, blaming, and manipulating. Same ole, same ole, and life goes on.

Maybe FL will eventually get their political and voting procedures right in the future. They have had more than their fair share of mess ups recently.

Florida is a backwards bunch. When explaining something make sure you talk that way otherwise they cant understand!!

GOOD!
Stick to the rules and maybe… just MAYBE FL will get it right the 3rd time around.. **rolling my eyes**

Florida voters did NOT break the rules.
Floridians deserve to be heard. We would never accept a 50/50 split.

We do NOT want Obama as our President !!!

Count our votes NOW.

It amazes me how many people keep saying "if such and such happens, I will vote for McCain." It is obvious that you have no clue about the issues and do not care to. The policies of Obama and Clinton are night and day from McCain's. If you think it's ok to continue on a path of distruction that the Bush Administration has begun and continuing it with McCain, then you are a fool. We are on the way to turning our dollar into a penny. The issue with the cost of gas is that the dollar is shrinking; the price of gas has not gone anywhere. But your employer isn't going to pay you to keep up with it. Folks, do not buy into this crap over Wright. He isn't running or anything. We must get our economy moving, and borrowing $208 billion a month from China to have a war we should never have had to fight get control over a commodity of another country, when we should be creating jobs by changing our energy policy anyway, is just plain stupid. If we don't wake up, there won't be an America to fight for at all.

WHY DOESN'T SOMEONE GO BACK AND READ THE DNC DELEGATE SELECTION RULES (8/19/06) - THERE WERE PROVISIONS MADE IN THAT DOCUMENT TO SEAT AT LEAST 1/2 OF THE DELEGATION.

Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire all violated DNC rules by changing their dates, yet weren't stripped of their delegates.

Read up on it.

the people of Florida should only be outraged or upset with there elected officials (Republicans)! Bottom line they are the ones who created this mess in the first place.

Way to go Obama. Stalled on Florida. Trotted out the attorneys to Michigan. Aaah just like sleazy Chicago politics where you piled on with lawyers to get everyone kicked off the ballot so you could run alone. Well, garbage politics got Bush elected. Good job.

I am a registered Florida Democrat. However, I DID NOT vote in the primary because we were told that it WOULD NOT count! How can the DNC take away our primary, but then say "Just kidding!" and count the votes from the people who showed up anyway??? My vote is not going to count because I was stupid enough to follow the directions of the DNC!!

The same party rules applied to Repubs as to Dems, but both parties moved the primary forward knowing their punishment by the RNC/DNC. Isn't it true that the RNC allowed for one-half of the Repub delegates to be seated at the convention?

Sorry, but viewing this ridiculous race which will last almost three years for a four year term, I am proud to be a Cnadian and to have the British Parliamentary Sytem we have.

Please don't get HRC wrong. She just wants to make a point and also has obligation to make that point to go all the way until the convention.
That does not mean she does not understand that she no chances of getting party nomination, atleast in 2008. Good luck in 2012, HRC !!

The original agreed upon rules was that the delegates wouldn't count. ALL camps agreed to this. Either don't seat the delegates or seat them 50/50. Thus the delegates will still have a vote, Clinton will have her way in that the delegates ARE seated, and Obama can have his way where the delegates dont' really count as ORIGINALLY AGREED TO.

This is very sad. The Democratic Party will not allow the citizens of Florida to have their voice heard. Another example of how the Democratic Party is destroying itself. They have the funds to do a revote - they just don't want to use it. I guess everyone needs to become a Republic - at least they can vote……….

You Democrats are just plain stupid! You can't even run a political campaign. How do you expect to run the country?!?

Every American legal citizen has the right and obligation to vote. No one has the right to remove a person's right of a vote.

if everyone's vote doesn't count what's the point of an election? i thought we lived in a democracy. just another step backward for the US.

Hillary GO far and away

Florida had the names on the ticketsand it should be counted, MI should revote. they can all spend Mills campaining why cant people come up with the cash to revote.

The DNC is learning a hard lesson. If they were smart, they would have done like the Republicans and only seated half the delegates.

That would punish the two states without having to worry about disenfranchising voters.

State of Florida held an election, who showed up was a decision made by the canidates. To heck with Dean and the DNC, watch as they hand another election over to the RNC.

Whats with all the flags on stage. Is obama playing at being president already.. And as far as the public being racist, I believe that the media has played a big part of this by separating american voters in ethnic groups such as black voters, white voters, latino voters etc.

no matter what happens ,nothing will change in washington.remember,that they r all gods and u r nothing.

if you don't vote you have no say, we need leadership ,not cry baby's we need laws ,.because people can not agree on good manners and act like adults.mostly in the goverment.

Good. Hopefully if people are upset by this they actually decide to take action instead of complaining about it on cnn's website.

The voters of Florida have been disinfranchized. Have we forgotten the Constitution?

This whole process is like a circus…. Were still using a two century old process to help elect the leaders that are supposed to move us forward. Everyday I lose more and more faith in our country.

it's actually a constitutional question: can the DNC eliminate ALL the superdelegates and thereby ensure no voting and no representation. The republicans punished the state by cutting their delegate allocation in half. The dnc should reconsider their role as supreme court justices and figure out a way to guarantee that votes actually count.

as it should be. you break the rules and you must live with the consequences. the people must take this up with their state legislature. it was their fault.

FLorida you made the right decision. Now Michigan needs to do the same and stand up against flip-flopping Clinton who now opposes the rules she agreed all along.

This getting crazy, Clinton is really starting to divide the Democratic party.

If you want a revelation, go to your computer and look up "Snopes Hillay comments" All this women cares about is becoming president. She will go to any length to try to win. She will not let this go. She doesn't care about the people that vote, she just cares about the vote.

Florida Democratic Voters wouldn't have figured out the re-vote.

The Steal!!

Iam so happy to see the democrats swirling in their own swines.

When President McCain is taking the oath of office, I hope all of you who insist in "playing by the rules" are just as self-righteous. Only national Democrats can screw up this badly — disenfranchising their supporters in a battleground state. And yes, the GOP is laughing, as they should be.

CNN, are you watching the speech? Do your job.

Awesome! Please put the money that would have been wasted on another election and put into your schools.

The people of Florida complain and say they won't vote for Obama or a Democrat because of this situation; where were they when they let their state officials GO AGAINST the rules and move it up in the 1st place.

How can they be mad now?

How can you say that is fair?

People are unbelievable.

Florida… Don't blame all of this on the DNC. Your state government officials bare a great deal of blame as well. Your Republican gonvenor clearly does not care about your voice as Democrats…

However, the DNC did drop the ball, and Howard Dean needs to go.

THESE PEOPLE NEED TO GET A GRIP! THIS IS THE FAULT OF THE REPUBLICAN RUN STATE OF FLORIDA!!!!!!!!!

WE NEED TO KEEP SUEING UNTIL SOMEONE WAKES UP!!!!

WHAT KIND OF A PRICE DO YOU PUT ON BEING DISENFRACHISED??

THEY NEED TO DISTRIBUTE THE DELEGATES AS THEY WERE CAST!!

JUST DO NOT COUNT THE EDWARDS VOTES!

OBAMA ADVERTISED IN FLORIDA FOR 10 DAYS!

SENATOR CLINTON DID NOT!!

I SUPPORT HILLARY 100%%%%%%%

THEY ARE DRAGGING THEIR FEET BECAUSE THE GOP OF FLORIDA WANT THE NOMINEE OF THIS WHOLE MESS TO BE OBAMA! THEN THE SMEAR CAMPAIGN AND 4 MORE YEARS OF REPUBLICANS!!!!!!!

WELL I AM NOT FALLING FOR IT!!!!!!

OBAMA IS COMMITING POLITICAL SUICIDE AND IT IS HIS OWN FAULT!!!

SENATOR CLINTON RISES ABOVE IT ALL TO WIN!!!!!!!!!

GO HILLARY!!!!!!!!!!

In these blogs: Florida equals Govenment officials, not voters. Voters had no choice, no say, and are having their constitutional rights taken away for nothng of the voter's own doing. Goverment officials are to blame. DNC rules are to blame. Floridians only remember all too well how precious votes are and not intentionally going to mess with that. We are the innocent, taxpaying clients to "lawyers" who screwed up the case and the voters get rights stripped for someone else's mistake. By the way, the DNC shot themselves in the foot: they pay the biggest price for this mess and their own decisions (Crist conspiracy? maybe, but not so true of Michigan so that can't be the whole picture, we just have more delegates so more coverage). I'm not paying, as a tax payer, either way for someone else's decision.

It was an Republican legislature and Republican governor that sign the bill to have their primary early. Obama had TV ads in Florida , he spend 1.3 million on them, his name was on the ballot. So not to defranchise the democratic voter, their votes. Divide the delegates according to the voting out come.

Do you know why they won't redo Florida? Because the FL democrats are Obama supporters, and they know that it will only help Hillary to redo the vote. There is a lot of unfairness going on…It was the Republicans who made it impossible for FL to count.

The crooked FL. Republicans did it again. They set the Vote date knowing there would be trouble. What a bunch of —-.
Since everyone was on the ticket the DNC should count this primary and not let the GOP get away with there agenda again. They are treating FL. like a dictatorship 3rd world country. Everyone who wants to vote should be counted in this USA.

Too bad, Hillary, you can't fool the people this time.

Wow, some of you people are "out there". Yeah, sure, it's ALL the Republicans fault isn't it! C'mon. How about we all get back to one of the things that made our country great and learn to take some accountability. FL and Michigan wanted to play a bigger role in the elections, they broke the rules knowing the consequences, and should pay for it.

And for the love of God, what will it take to have the word "disenfranchised" wiped from the English language. It's such a whiny, pathetic word laced with entitlement. We're turning into (or are already) a nation of spoiled brats that think the world owes each of us whatever we want. Get over it. Sheesh.

Your votes WILL be counted, people, in the general election. Until then, yeah, be upset but figure out how to keep this from happening in the future rather than just wringing your hands and whining about being "disenfranchised". Do you think ANY society on Earth other than ours even USES that word???? Does that not tell you something?

You Clinton supporters that say you'll vote for McCain over Obama are full of it. I don't believe you I think you are just trying to convince other people to stop supporting Obama. Why not just stay home? Why go through the trouble just to spite one particular candidate that has most of the same views as the one you support now? Do you realize how stupid and ill-concieved that is? I don't even support Obama and I see how wrong that is. Who gave us Nafta? Oh yeah Clinton! Who bombed serbia? Clinton! Who was the chosen successor for H.W.Bush? You guessed it that corrupt govenor from Arkansas. Bush the elder knew his chances were slim so he handpicked a candidate to win in case he didn't. Now you know that we will possibly have Bush policies for 28 years if Hillary Clinton gets 8 years. What a sad time to be an american.

I've never heard of anything so undemocractic as not counting the Florida votes……they voted in good faith. They didn't know that ther vote would not count or there would not have been a record broken in the large numbers that turned out for the primary….DNC…get your act together!!!

This decision should make Obama very happy.

Nobody asked us Floridians whether we wanted a revote or not, of course we do, I'd even contribute to any fund raising to get it done.

Why don't everyone who is not going to vote demacratic because of Florida send Howard Dean an E-mail. If he get enough , they may listen to the people.

I am a Hillary supporter. But I believe what Obama said in this speech. He is sincere. He did a great job. He does not need to disown Wright. He should not have to. Once in while in one’s life, people may say or do something radical just like what Mr. Wright did. Let’s move onto the real issues that Americans are facing.

To Henry in Florida - you are right on all accounts. Many changes have to be made in the Democratic primary process. I would include one more change, n