Stealing Michigan Delegates

At one point, Mr. Ickes implied that Mr. Obama had his name removed from the Michigan ballot to "curry favor" with participants in Iowa's first-in-the nation caucuses on Jan. 3, which he won.

Allan Katz, a committee member from Florida who was wearing an Obama pin during the hearings, said no one should compare the current dispute with Florida's 2000 recount mess.

"That election was stolen," he said, citing a common refrain among state Democrats who believe former Vice President Al Gore defeated then Texas Gov. George W. Bush.

Yet they don't see the same thing occuring when someone that wasn't voted for gets nearly half the delegates. He wasn't on the ballot because he took his name off the ballot on his free will and now gets the delegates anyway. Must be nice having special rules just for you when you run for office.

Revoting Michigan and Florida

The simplest solution would be for the National party to quit being a tyrant and sit the delegates from the earlier primary and allow the states to have their primaries when they want them. That's what a democracy would do. But apparently the Democrats don't want a democracy. They think the states which pay for the primaries should do what they want. This is why the two major parties should be done away with. They have become to big for their britches.