The Deciders

Rush Limbaugh is having a delightful time with this issue. He is boasting his "Operation Chaos" is working and winning, "You know what frustrates me about this? How right I am." Limbaugh has declared the democratic primaries a "train wreck." Limbaugh is right on this. All on the DNC committee deciding the outcome of this comedy should recuse themselves. It is quite impossible for any of those folks to remain fair and impartial. Each will vote according to a personal agenda, most often a personal agenda developed by a promise of a political position, a cabinet position or an administration position by a presidential candidate. This debacle is a mockery of our fourteenth amendment to our constitution. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

This is neither a debacle or a train wreck. Obama has shown up as the guy who wasnt supposed to be here. He is the fly in the soup or the block in the wheel. The democrats believed that Hilary would run away with this thing. They counted out the very people that Obama enlisted. The young, disgruntled, tired of the same old politics people and people who are sick and tired of Washington as usual have been awakened by someone who connects the real every day people. He is killing them and nobody knows what to make of this guy. I dont understand what it is that the DNC's rules committee is supposed to figure out. The rule was set long ago. Dont move your primary up! If you do your delegates will not be seated. Both Barack and Hilary agreed. They moved them up and were punished accordingly. Nobody cried foul at that time because Hilary thought it was still her race to win.......by a landslide!! Now she has realized that the unkown guy that couldn't actually did!! and she cries foul!! She cries sexism! She cries unfair coverage by the media!! The debacle and the trainwreck here is the Clintons!!!

The one thing of this so called rules committee is that they need to get rid of the super delegates and go to a winner take all approach since this is a system that is flawed and hence HRC still in the race keeping it divided. Sure its in place to keep a repeat of the 1968 debacle forming happening, but, its going to start up this weekend with the loud and vocal HRC supporters, who like her don't care about getting rid of McCain all about her sense of entitlement and making Obama and the DNC look as bad as possible. This whole thing has been one big joke, and, all those who are involved have in all likelihood been paid off by the Clinton's or their cronies, I don't trust anyone associated with them, be they black, white, orange or purple.

According to the lawyers, only half of FL and MI delegates can be seated (or all seated with half a vote). With Obama's current lead, this will not significantly change the outcome. If Hillary gets any more than this, propriety will be called into question! Hillary, the Queen of Spin and a Legend in Her Own Mind! http://klintons.com

'dre uses some common sense, "The one thing of this so called rules committee is that they need to get rid of the super delegates and go to a winner take all approach since this is a system that is flawed...." Sho 'nuff! This democratic system of selecting a presidential nominee is not democratic at all. Why do we even bother voting? Final analysis is some crooked politicians will make the decision. Our votes are truly meaningless, truly only amount to statistical surveys to determine what class of peoples will vote for whom. Based on our voting trends, corrupt politicians then go about cutting cigar smoke filled backroom deals to jockey for political power, then announce who will be a nominee or be our president. We do not vote, we are just marks in a con game. Even our general November election is meaningless. Not uncommon for a candidate to take the popular vote and lose the election because of our electoral college system. This is how George Bush was elected. Americans did not vote Bush into office for the 2000 year election. I cannot place enough emphasis on this. George Bush did not win the popular vote but won the election because of our electoral college system. Look at the price our country and our world has paid because George Bush came into office, but not through popular vote. Al Gore won the election. Would our world be different today if Gore had taken his rightful place as our president? Over the years I have sent out literally thousands of letters to politicians from municipal level to federal level, sent out thousands of letters to talking head media types, to urge abandonment of this rigged electoral college system we suffer, in favor of popular vote. Never a response, never does any good. I agree with you 'dre our election process should be based strictly on popular vote, based strictly on who wins the most American votes. You watch, in a year or two, this Michigan-Florida issue will end up before our Supreme Court. However, our Supreme Court justices are politically appointed politicians. Final decision by our Supreme Court will be to support our current corrupt and fraudulent system of elections, to protect their personal agenda; they are politicians before justices. Keith Boykin, I would think you would be out there in the forefront calling for a fair and democratic election process of popular vote. You are in a public position to do so and I believe you should do so. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

Most of the members of the Rules & Bylaws Committee signed up for this assignment before this year. When they did join, I'm sure the last thing they expected was this kind of scrutiny and -- good grief! -- wall-to-wall cable news coverage of the committee's meeting! I suppose there's a first for everything, but normally this kind of stuff is so dry and obscure that it might not even merit coverage by C-Span. And now the excitement and anticipation surrounding it rivals the lead-up to the Super Tuesday primaries. I, for one, plan to tear myself away from the TV this Saturday. I'll wait for the nightly news to find out what happened...and I'm sure it won't be Earth-shattering. I enjoy politics, and especially watching the twists and turns of this year's campaign, but this is too much even for me!

If you're like me you didn't pay attention to the DNC's decisions to revise the calendar in 2006. Here's one Washington Post story that highlights the criticism it received even back then: "The Democrats' Dysfunctional Calendar" By David S. Broder (Thursday, August 31, 2006; Page A25). This whole thing was a nightmare waiting to happen and neither Obama or Hillary are the cause of where we are today!!

I'll sit back and watch if these beautiful people really do the right thing coming from their gut. Or they try and impress America, which they will regret for the rest of their breathing days.

In keeping with my firebrand personality, do not expect me to play nice-nice nor to be politically correct. I am an American Indian truth speaker. Let's meet these four deciders from a different perspective. This information is readily available to all readers through simple research and reading. Some issues presented are resolved, some issues presented are not resolved. Readers who are interested, are charged with learning more about these issues through research and verification of quoted material. All of these snippets are independently verifiable through sources available at your fingertips. The best truth is truth you discover on your own. -------------- YVONNE GATES "Gates, the husband of former Clark County Commissioner Yvonne Atkinson Gates, drew similar comments. One was, 'I have practiced law for 38 years in three different states and Judge Lee A. Gates is the rudest, crudest judge I have ever been [sic] before'...." "All of the felony charges against the son of former Clark County commissioner Yvonne Gates and his wife have been dropped. Brian Atkinson Turner and Kathryn O'Gara have each pled guilty to one misdemeanor charge of child neglect. The two were arrested last year. Police say they found a marijuana growing operation, no food and feces on the walls of their Southern Highlands home. The two faced a series of felony drug charges from the arrest, but now those charges have been dropped. They are still under federal indictment on unrelated tax charges." "...Inside the house, they found filth and garbage and more, including marijuana and a hydroponic growing system favored by indoor pot farmers. A loaded handgun was in the glove box of the car, just inches from where the child had been." "Not just anyone can get a contractor's license from the state. There are strict standards and requirements. Yvonne Gates managed to get a license though and is now a full fledged contractor, involved in multi-million dollar home projects for her friends. How in the world did she qualify? ...Together they formed Gates and McClain LLC, the parent company for Built by Yvonne. However, the I-Team has learned plenty about Gates' new partner. State records show that Lesa McClain's contractor's license was revoked in 2000 for shoddy workmanship. ...Thomas was fired by the county and is under criminal investigation. Gates says the listing of her company for the doctor's home was a mistake and premature. ...Law enforcement sources have told the I-Team that Metro, the FBI, and IRS are each looking into Ms. Gates' business dealings, in part to see how a longtime public employee can afford all the stuff she's accumulated." "Law enforcement are still tracking down leads about Gates and has long suspected that some of the money paid by Gates to her family members-- more than $400,000--for her campaign made its way back into her own pocket." -------------- ALEXIS HERMAN "President Bill Clinton was interviewed under oath Wednesday by the independent counsel in the influence-peddling probe against Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman." "Ralph I. Lancaster Jr., a private attorney from Maine, has been appointed to investigate allegations of influence-peddling against Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman." "African businessman Laurent Yene claims he gave Herman an envelope full of cash. The payment may have part of a scam in which Herman allegedly would use her White House influence to help a consulting firm. Yene also claims Herman played a role in illegal campaign contributions to the Democratic National Committee." "Alexis M. Herman serves as Director of Entergy Corp since 2003...." "Entergy Corp. was the last Fortune 500 Company still based in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina struck. Unless the federal government grants its wholly owned subsidiary, Entergy New Orleans, the $718 million it seeks to maintain and rebuild its gas and electricity infrastructure damaged in the storm, the utility might not be able to continue doing business in the city it currently supplies with gas and electric. It isn't that Entergy can't afford to rebuild; it's that it would rather keep its profits and let the federal government pick up the tab. Entergy Corp. racked up $10 billion in revenues last year and has $29 billion in collective assets. On paper, there is no question Entergy could comfortably cover its losses and rebuild the infrastructure of its utility business in New Orleans. On May 2, Entergy announced that its first-quarter profit rose nearly 13 percent...." "In late March, a huge crowd assembled to meet with Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Entergy representatives, who repeatedly claimed that the numerous radioactive leaks recently detected seeping from the plant and toward the Hudson River were nothing to worry about. But the crowd was concerned, largely because they knew Entergy was positioned to protect its assets by filing for bankruptcy in the event of a nuclear disaster. Where, they wondered, was the motivation to maintain safety standards, if not the specter of lost profits?" -------------- DONNA BRAZILE "...she made news by telling a group of reporters that George H.W. Bush needed to 'fess up' about unsubstantiated rumors of an extramarital affair. Said Brazile, 'The American people have every right to know if Barbara Bush will share that bed with him in the White House.' The Dukakis campaign immediately disavowed her remarks and, at the suggestion of campaign manager Susan Estrich, Brazile resigned the same day." "Brazile is driven and brash, given to speaking in a slew of four-letter words that do not stop in the presence of the press." "Donna Brazile has been the most divisive and destructive force in the Democratic Party this year. She engineered the Florida/Michigan fiasco, threatened to bolt the Party if the super delegates did not do her bidding and now has taken to publicly smearing the Clinton campaign...." -------------- RALPH DAWSON "Dawson, a partner at the law firm, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., is also the Democratic National Committee member who introduced the resolution to strip Florida of its delegates for holding its presidential primary ahead of the February 5 date recommended by the D.N.C." "...Ralph Dawson, a Manhattan labor lawyer and college roommate of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean...." "...In addition, a Manhattan labor lawyer and national party official, Ralph Dawson, donated to Mr. Obama." "The Democratic national committeeman who introduced the motion on the party's Rules Committee to deprive Florida of all its delegates - a precursor to the Michigan decision a few months later - was Ralph Dawson, a New York lawyer who was Howard Dean's Yale roommate and an advisor to Dean's 2004 campaign. Dawson's role was seen as a signal of Dean's appetite for a kick-ass rebuke." "If one [Ralph Dawson] thinks that seating the FL and MI delegates after the nominee has been decided will endear those states' voters to the Democrat in November, just put down the wacky tobaccy and step away from the bong." ****** Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

"Among the elite few who will be in the room: Former Clark County Commissioner Yvonne Atkinson Gates...she resigned from the commission last year amid a police investigation into her campaign spending...." - Las Vegas Sun "Women voters are not factored into the decision making of the Democratic National Committee. The DNC is concerned that black voters will protest and stay home if Senator Clinton gets the nomination, even though she is the stronger and more electable candidate. But the DNC doesn't worry that white women, three times larger than the combined black vote, will stay away from the polls if Mrs. Clinton does not get the nomination. They expect the white women of the party to fall in step and vote for Mr. Obama in the general election." (unattributed) Lynette Long, "Painful Lessons" Baltimore Sun Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

From today's DNC committee meeting, --- "My momma taught me to play by the rules and respect those rules. My mother taught me, and I'm sure your mother taught you, that when you decide to change the rules, middle of the game, end of the game, that is referred to as cheatin.'" -- Donna Brazile to former Michigan Gov. Jim Blanchard, who was making the case for the Clinton campaign to get 73 delegates out of Michigan with 55 for uncommitted. http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/31/1090183.aspx --- Clearly Brazile's personal agenda is to not allow any delegates for Clinton and to deny the right to vote of the peoples of Michigan and Florida. Brazile is arguing against our right to vote. This is quite hypocritical coming from a black woman. Brazile's "momma" needs to bare butt switch her girl. My grandpa sure would. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

Obama is arguing the Michigan delegates should be split fifty-fifty between himself and Clinton although Clinton won Michigan by a wide margin. This is no different than not counting Michigan. Obama is clearly working at rigging the primaries in his favor and is clearly working at defrauding the peoples of Michigan out of their votes. Obama is working at Brazile "cheatin'" Americans out their right to vote. Obama is working at winning the primary nomination through fraud. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

From a news report, --- Harold Ickes, a senior adviser to the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., took issue just now with any notion that the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is conceding anything by agreeing to a proposal being floated to seat the full Florida delegation with each delegate getting half a vote -- thus netting Clinton 19 pledged delegates. "Concession?" said Ickes. "Gimme a break. Under their formula, Hillary Clinton loses delegates, not gains delegates. It is just a perversion of the word to call that a concession." http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/05/ickes-sees-perv.html --- Obama continues to work at winning the democratic primary nomination through fraud. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

Today, Obama lost his bid to be president. Associated Press release just out, --- Democratic party officials said a party committee agreed Saturday on a compromise to seat Michigan and Florida delegates Saturday after Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton failed to get enough support to force their positions through. The committee agreed on a compromise offered by the Michigan Democratic Party that would give Clinton 69 delegates and Obama 59. Each delegate would get half a vote at the convention in Denver later this summer, according to the deal. They also agreed to seat the Florida delegation based on the outcome of the January primary, with 105 pledged delegates for Clinton and 67 for Obama, but with each delegate getting half a vote as a penalty. --- The DNC has officially voted to give Obama an edge over Clinton, based on Michigan. The DNC has also voted our American right to vote is meaningless. All of us can now rightfully state, "Obama cheated." This will haunt Obama. This is an absolute guarantee Obama will not win the presidential election. We women will see to this as will a majority of Michigan and Florida voters. Today, Obama lost his bid to be president. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

Well, I'm glad they had a seat and showed some class, since with the venom of Harold Icky along with each and everyone of the HRC surrogates, and the uncouth nature of the HRC surrogates in the crowd, who were as uncouth and disrespectful as they are online, its good to see people who have had some home training and know how to act in public. All that noise about Florida and Michigan, as if either is going to vote for the man in the moon if he was on the Democratic ticket, give me a break. They are GOP states. Its over, although, HRC will make yet another scene in Denver to make sure McCain is elected, but, who really cares about her at this point?? She is old news, and, should try to have some class and leave like a lady. She and her supporters should just vote GOP and join that party, since, they and their identity politics where poor and white and white women are the only ones who can have a say according to HRC herself, have no place in this party, too hateful and divisive, I guess they along with the Clinton's really are Rovian in nature.

The Fat Lady is singing for Obama. Obama is done for. Obama shot himself in the foot and the DNC gave him the six shooter to do this. --- A woman paced back and forth along the sidewalk, holding a sign that declared, "Count our votes or don’t count on us in November!" - New York Times --- Women represent fifty-one percent of the democratic party population. Democratic party women number three times the total of all black voters. Women of the democratic party are angry about being marginalized. Michigan and Florida voters are angry over being marginalized, as well. Both states overwhelmingly support Hillary Clinton. Both states must be won to win the November presidential election. Women are well known for being a cohesive and strong group; we stick together. There is a fast growing grass roots effort to defeat Obama to protest women being marginalized by the Democratic National Committee. This effort is to refuse to vote for a president, write-in vote for Clinton or vote for McCain. Women are conservative leaning voters and women look for a strong leader who will tend to family needs before all; a father figure. Women are swing voters. My personal opinion is angry women, a majority of women, will vote for McCain over Obama. If only twenty-five percent of women across our nation vote against Obama, if only twenty-five percent of Michigan and Florida voters cast their votes against Obama, this is a guarantee Obama will lose the presidential election. My personal estimate, being generous, is somewhere between thirty percent to forty percent of those voters, especially women, will vote against Obama. There is a good chance this might prove to be fifty percent of those voters. Toss in blue collar workers, older people, those without a college degree, Reagan democrats, those who Obama has not and cannot win over, this could prove an almost landslide victory for McCain. Would not that be exciting? What an election! Today is truly the day Obama lost his bid to be president. This will not be a result of voting racial lines, this will be a result of women being marginalized by our male dominated electoral system. Sexism is the issue, not racism. Come November, America will learn of this true power of women. We will roar. Okpulot Taha Choctaw Nation

Mrs Mavis Gibson you are correct, they are just bitter losers, who can't figure out that the country does not need nor want anymore of the Bush and Clinton's in the White House, enough of both clans and their divisive, race baiting for votes families. At this point anybody is better suited for the job, and, for the bitter HRC voters, I say, vote for Mccain, as it this point, the anger, rage and race baiting is old and she is outta here, thank goodness!

An interesting read... http://texashillblog.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/super-delegates-for-sale/