WTF: A rant.

Do you all remember things like this? Zuzu was one of the few bloggers to really fight back against the tide of the Big Liberal Dude's insistance that counting Michigan and Florida in the Democratic primary was clearly Against The Rules. Some of the ugliest sexism was involved in this very debate. Just by asking for MI and FL to count, Clinton was called all manner of misogynist slurs and was accused of being so power hungry she would destroy the party.

This is an important point.

Clinton and her supporters and others who wanted to count MI and FL were the ones who were called divisive (at best). Zuzu was the target of ridiculous levels of hate simply for explaining the rules.

Obama benefitted from this argument which fueled the opposition to Clinton as a power-mad harpy and the labelling of Clinton supporters as irrational bitches. He was helped so much that he was given not only more delegates from Michigan than he had demonstrably earned, but also a couple of delegates that Clinton had demonstrably earned. This helped push him over the edge to the magic number.

Now Obama is calling for the MI and FL deligates votes to count in full, as opposed to the half vote the DNC granted them. And what is his reason? Fucking "party unity."

Please excuse me while I go throw up and then break some things.

Alrighty then.

Someone explain to me how giving MI and FL full voting rights now, when the voting will be purely symbolic, does shit for "party unity." The co-chairs of the credentials committee claims that "As always our goal is to ensure a fair process and a unified Democratic Party so that we can win in November." Fair? WTF? Unified? Is anyone but Obama even going to be on the ballot at the convention? How the hell does this matter now?

But mostly, I am angry at the blatant hypocricy. Not because Obama is doing something at a time when it will hurt him the least, as far as votes. That is what a politician does. But for arguing that party unity now demands this symbolic gesture that when Clinton wanted it done (and when it would have given those primary voters a real voice in the primary election) SHE was destroying party unity. Now Obama wants this to be a grand gesture by him to repair it by doing what Clinton and all those other party-destroyers wanted?

Fuck that.

ETA: I don't think I was completely clear on one of the points I really wanted to highlight. Obama is now saying that it's good for party unity to fully count MI and FL delegates' votes. So who was the one who was divisive and breaking up the party? The one who wanted them to count or the one pushing for them not to count at all?