Obama has officially lost my vote
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howeirdI have nothing against Joe Biden. Obama has lost my vote by naming a running mate before he has officially been nominated. On top of his arrogant European tour and elitist Hawaiian vacation, this is just too much.
I'm a stickler for people following their own rules, which is why I don't read a lot of fantasy novels - most fantasy authors keep making up rules and exceptions to them as they go, and that's cheating. I like sci-fi because once the nature of the broken rule is established (warp drive, time machine, silicon life forms, etc.) the author stays within that framework.
The rules for Obama were simple:
1. There's an election by the delegates at the convention. No matter what the pundits and second-guessers say the vote total will be, it's not over till the delegates vote.
2. You don't get to choose a running mate until you are the official candidate.
It's called democracy. Obama apparently prefers the Chicago-style version.
I'm a stickler for people following their own rules, which is why I don't read a lot of fantasy novels - most fantasy authors keep making up rules and exceptions to them as they go, and that's cheating. I like sci-fi because once the nature of the broken rule is established (warp drive, time machine, silicon life forms, etc.) the author stays within that framework.
The rules for Obama were simple:
1. There's an election by the delegates at the convention. No matter what the pundits and second-guessers say the vote total will be, it's not over till the delegates vote.
2. You don't get to choose a running mate until you are the official candidate.
It's called democracy. Obama apparently prefers the Chicago-style version.
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Date: 2008-08-24 08:46 am (UTC)Obama lost your vote a long time ago
You are 100% correct. Well 99%, at least. The 1% is had he waited till after the vote to choose a VP candidate, and had he chosen someone who was not a Washington insider, he would have gotten my vote.
steel yourself and vote Democrat
What's hidden between the lines here is I remember Lyndon Johnson as the Peace Candidate, the one who promised to get us out of Vietnam, and Barry Goldwater as the hawk. Johnson was elected, and we got 4 more years of war. Former Air Force General Goldwater would probably have ended it in a year, one way or the other. And it was Kennedy who got us into the war in the first place.