Obama says on NPR he will abide by DNC decisions on FL and MI

[dailykoff]

Obama was interviewed Thursday in the US Senate chamber and it just aired on Morning Edition. From the write-up on the website (click "listen now" to hear the actual story):

"We were told that these contests would not count," he tells Steve Inskeep. "Sen. Clinton agreed. Our name was taken off the ballot in Michigan, and in Florida we did no campaigning. Now, if people think that that is a normal democratic way of running an election, then that's not the America that I know."

Clinton said a complete re-do of the two primaries would be acceptable to her. But Obama says he's not sure that's such a good idea.

"Our position consistently has been that the Michigan and Florida delegations should be seated and that we should come up with a system that is fair to all the parties involved," Obama says.

"My understanding is that the full primary is just not realistic," he says. "It's not on the table because neither state wants to pay for it and there are all sorts of problems. In Michigan, for example, the Republicans control the and they would have no reason to agree ..."

"Look, we're going to abide by whatever the Democratic National Committee determines is fair," he says. "But the important point is ... that we agreed not to participate in this process. Not just me, but Sen. Clinton did as well. If you ask my 6-year-old, should that election count, she would probably be able to figure out that that's not fair."

link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88212282

[durrrty libby]

1. He is a liar. He ran ads in Florida.

[quantass]

2. National Ads

[durrrty libby]

3. Ads are ads. When a person sees an ad, they don't wonder...

hmmm...Is that a national ad? Why act ignorant? It is just DUmb

[quantass]

5. It wasn't his intentions...it just happened to appear on FL tvs while airing across rest of USA

Check the many articles online ...

[durrrty libby]

6. Hopefully you are just acting dense and that is not your normal state of being

:dunce:.......... :dunce: .............:dunce:

[MadHound]

7. Umm, you have no clue as to how national feeds work, do you.

An ad that is bought and paid for on a national level runs nationally. Local stations are contractually bound not to interfere with that feed or those ads except under certain circumstances that all parties agree to, the local TV station, the national network, the party that bought the ads. So unless there was such a prior agreement, or the local TV stations were willing to risk a lawsuit that they would probably lose, they were contractually obligated to run those ads coming in off the national feed. It's that simple.

[durrrty libby]

9. Umm Ads ran in Florida People watched them. It's THAT simple

[MadHound]

12. And the local TV stations had no control over airing those ads,

Nor did the local campaigns. Are you stating that there should have been a complete moratorium on national ads by all campaigns in the weeks leading up to the Florida and MI primaries, and do you actually think that any of the campaigns would have agreed to that?

Speaking of simple:eyes:

[niceypoo]

8. If Hillary had ran ads there would you be defending her?

no, you would be going bezerk

[durrrty libby]

10. I guess once you've kissed the robe, you lose all common sense

:shrug:

[pampango]

4. Tough call for the candidates. Agree to let the party decide what is best for the party

or wait and reserve the right to accept or reject any solution based on its effect on your own candidacy.

Then there is a possible second stage. If both agree in advance to accept any party solution to the Michigan/Florida issue, we will then have to watch and see if, in fact, they do live up to their agreement. Their would be a temptation for either to adopt a new stance if he or she didn't like the actual solution - in effect "I agreed to accept the party's solution when I thought it would help me, but it actually hurts me so I am going in a different direction."

[krawhitham]

11. That is a great quote, he needs to keep saying it till it gets traction

"We were told that these contests would not count," he tells Steve Inskeep. "Sen. Clinton agreed. Our name was taken off the ballot in Michigan, and in Florida we did no campaigning. Now, if people think that that is a normal democratic way of running an election, then that's not the America that I know."