illusionofjoy | Half-votes and changed votes

After a very long "lunch" break, the Democratic Rules Committee has come to a decision regarding the delegates of Florida and Michigan. To surmise: all the delegates will be seated, albeit with only half-votes each. Florida's delegate count will stand as-is, while Michigan's delegates have been reassigned in such a way that Hillary Clinton gets 69 delegates while Barack Obama gets 59 delegates - a "compromise" which not only awards Obama all of the uncommitted votes, but four of Clinton's delegates as well!

This is unacceptable. If Florida and Michigan are to be punished with half-votes for moving up their primaries ahead of schedule, then Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada should share the same fate for committing the same crime. However, the big travesty here is that Obama has been given Michigan delegates that he did not earn. I might have been able to stomach him receiving the "uncommitted" vote, but to blatantly take four of Hillary Clinton's delegates and simply hand them over to a candidate who did not earn them, who didn't get the percentage of the popular vote to earn them is beyond reproach!

The Democratic Party, in today's decision, has proven that it is continuing to let slip its tenuous grasp on what Democracy really is.