Hillary Will Have A Roll Call

[Marline]

News today is that Hillary will have her roll call. Obama seems to have come to his senses and knows it's the best way to handle it. Well duhhhhhhhhhh Obama it doesn't take a Rocket Scientist to figure that out. People want this guy as President when it took him awhile to figure that out.  Gezzzzzzzzz

Now that we know that I just have to see if she will dismiss it 1/2 way through as I heard before.

[24hrlib]

Is it being done on the convention floor.  Or privately in their rooms?  And how does that work.  Please, don't say diebold touch pad. 

[Marline]

I think it will be done on the roll is Obama's best move but Hillary can dismiss it half way through, we will have to wait and see. Does anyone know what time the roll call is to begin?

[Marline]

I heard the roll call will begin at 7:00 p.m. EDT but they are doing something at 5:00 p.m. something they write in, I'm not sure what that is about. They are now saying all states will be included, at least at this hour it's been reported. I also heard that it is still possible for Hillary to be VP, something to do with the roll call but I think it's impossible. Also they are saying Hillary is to release all her delegates this afternoon, we will have to see how that plays out.

[destiny]

Its over, she did it, she stopped the vote.  She did what was expected and they will continue to vilify her for not doing it enthusiastically enough.     Our loss, truly ours.

[MiamiForEdwards]

I agree Destiny it is our loss.  And a great loss for our daughters who will not have the written record reflect that the first serious female contender for the presidency earned over 1600 pledged delegate votes representing close to 18 million voters.  First the delegate sessions this morning at the hotels and written ballots before the floor vote, then Hillary Clinton releases her delegates and the rest is history. 

http://heidilipotpourri.blogspot.com/

Regardless of what people see on their televisions over the next hour or so, do not be fooled. No ritual that is preceded by private balloting can be understand to be a genuine or authentic vote. When Americans go to vote in the general election, for example, they will not be rounded up beforehand and asked to sign documents stating how they will vote before hand. If we were, the documents would not count as votes anyway. That is because, messy and imperfect as federal elections can be, the one thing the government does is at least try to do is to make the elections that occur on Election Day be genuine decision making making mechanisms, a chance for those eligible to vote to cast ballots according to a previously established procedure to use that procedure to decide the question at hand.

Quite the opposite has occurred at the Democratic Party convention this year. Every effort has been made to ensure that today's televised proceedings NOT be the actual mechanism to decide the Democratic Party's nominee, to turn what could and should have been a vote into a "vote".

What we are watching today more closely resembles closely Iranian parliamentary elections than U.S. federal elections.

A "vote" is not a vote. It is a sham, a fake, a show.

[destiny]

I can't even look at Nancy Pelosi. 

[Lataet]

Did anyone happen to hear the roll call?  The states that began, did they call out their nominee?  Was it always oby or was it Hil?  Just curious.

[destiny]

It was messed up, some states "passed", some ie arkansas called out their votes wrong.  Didn't matter, it was a totally prestaged media event.  And don't even get me started on Pelosi.