Now the NAACP's Julian Bond is turning the FL MI delegates into racial discrimination.

madfloridian

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Tue Feb-12-08 06:32 PM
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Now the NAACP's Julian Bond is turning the FL MI delegates into racial discrimination.

Edited on Tue Feb-12-08 06:52 PM by madfloridian

This infuriates me. It was not about race, and I am most disppointed in Julian Bond. It was never about race. Bill Nelson sued Dean on that basis and lost. This is going to turn off a lot of voters, including me.

In 2002 we heard we MUST vote Democratic or we lose our country. In 2004, we heard the same. We voted Democratic in droves. In 2006 we heard we MUST get out and vote in droves...or we lose our country. And we did. Today those Democrats we voted in sold us out.

I don't have a clue why this group would put play the racial card against Howard Dean and the DNC. Hillary alone will benefit. They should have stayed neutral, rather than turn a party situation into something racial.

Julian Bond says the refusal to seat the delegations could remind voters of "racially discriminatory primaries."

WASHINGTON (AP) - A civil rights leader is calling on the Democratic National Committee to reconsider its decision not to seat delegates from Florida and Michigan at the party convention.

The DNC penalized the two states for moving their primaries up, in violation of party rules. Both states were stripped of their delegates, and the presidential candidates promised not to campaign in either state.

In a letter to party chairman Howard Dean, NAACP chairman Julian Bond is expressing "great concern" at what he says is the prospect that millions of voters in the two states could "have their votes completely discounted." And he says the refusal to seat the delegations could remind voters of "racially discriminatory primaries."

Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign has pushed hard for both states' delegations to be seated. She won both primaries, and was the only candidate to appear on the Michigan ballot.

Playing the race card is getting down and dirty. Stripping the Florida delegates had nothing to do with race, but with keeping every other state from leapfrogging and ending up voting in December 2007.

Florida has done a magnificent job on propaganda. I have written a lot about it.

Now the NAACP is going to play the race card against Howard Dean. I am very angry. Bill Nelson played that card in court, and he lost.

I am seeing a very dirty underside of our party right now. I thought I saw it all in 2004, but I was only getting my eyes opened.

I hope Governor Dean will step down rather than give into the false accusations. The party does not deserve someone who really did care about bringing change. Many of thought he would have been more effective working outside the party.

Maybe the time has come. I want Bill Nelson, the NAACP, and anyone else who turned the loss of Florida delegates into a racist thing....to think long and hard about what they are doing to the party.