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Senator Obama, you moved too soon...
You should have waited until after the convention, once you secured the nomination, before you moved to the right.
Pledged Obama delegates:
Yes! You can switch your vote at the convention...and you can do it legally, morally, and within party rules!
Here is what the Democratic National Convention Committee's own website says regarding pledged votes:
"Pledged delegates are not bound to vote for the candidate they are pledged to at the Convention or on the first ballot. A pledged delegate goes to the Convention with a signed pledge of support for a particular presidential candidate. At the Convention, while it is assumed that delegates will cast their votes for the candidate they are publicly pledged to, it is not required. Under the Delegate Selection Rules, a delegate is asked to 'in good conscience reflect the sentiments of those who elected them.' This provision is designed in part to make the Convention a deliberative body."
If pledged Obama delegates no longer feel that he "reflects the sentiments of those that elected them," then delegates not only have the right but the obligation to switch their votes.
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Another day, another flip-flop
- FISA.
- Gun-ownership.
- Death penalty.
- Federal-funding of the campaign.
- NAFTA.
- No Moslems in the same photos as Obama.
- "Responsible, GRADUAL, withdrawal from Iraq" (exact quote from Obama from the speech at Unity, NH, making his Iraq stance pretty much the same as John McCain's)
- Special interests; donations from lobbyists
- The Cuba embargo
- Illegal immigration
- Decriminalization of marijuana
- Single-payer healthcare
- Rev. Wright
- Jerusalem as capital
- Meeting with foreign leaders
- Iran and terrorism
- Palestinian elections
- North Korea
- Patriot Act
- Coal
- PAYGO
- Nuclear power
- The Surge
- Vouchers
- Welfare reform
- Gay marriage
- Faith-based programs (George W.'s favorite "to hell with separation of church and state" initiative).
Obama adopts The Nixon Strategy
Richard Nixon famously said: When you are seeking the nomination for president of the Republican Party, you run to the far right; once you've secured the nomination, you run to right of center during the election campaign; once you've won the presidency, you govern from the center.
Barack Obama has embraced The Nixon Strategy lock, stock and barrel, adapting its mirror-opposite to the Left. He suckered the hard-working base of the party -- the Left-wing -- into voting for him during the primaries by appealing to the issues dearest to their hearts. These are the very people responsible for getting him to where he is today! Yet once Obama felt he secured the nomination, he has tripped over himself running to the center (some would argue the center-right). Oh, Barack, we thought we knew ye!
How wrong we were.
But Obama made a mistake; he started his move rightwards before securing the nomination. And what he didn't realize was that...
What the Left giveth, the Left can taketh away!
Enough is enough! A message must be sent to all politicians that you cannot say one thing to get our support and then, once secured, say quite another.
Contact your pledged Obama delegate today! Tell them in no uncertain terms that Obama no longer represents you and that they must reconsider their pledged vote at the convention!
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* Thanks to Matt Hurley of Weapons of Mass Discussion.