Obama Delegate Purge in California

Well, we've had some shenanigans in delegate selection in California, where there are more candidates for Obama delegates than there were spaces.

Theoretically, the actual delegates are chosen at caucus, but the campaigns can, and do strike names from the list before the caucuses.

Originally, the Obama struck some 950 potential delegates off the list out about 1700 (about 55%), as opposed to about 40 out of about 1000 (4%) for the Clinton campaign, including Marcy Winograd, who sits on the Executive committee of the CA Dems, and contested the primary against hawk Jane Harman.

Apparently, their justification was that they were concerned about Clinton poaching their delegates (the Bitch made me do it defense), but of note is the fact that the people remaining were the bundlers and their girlfriends, so it was payback for the morally repugnant policy of bundling donations, one which the Obama campaign says that they do not need because of their massive small donor base.

It's payback to the big donors.

Of note, once this all hit the fan, the Obama campaign backtracked, but it's both stupid and sleazy.

Just another group of supporters to be thrown under the bus, as Obama is now signaling over "Don't ask Don't Tell", where he's nominally opposed, but won't consider the position of candidates for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which means that we will see a military man lobbying against this, just like Colin Powell did, which sounds an awful lot like the dog whistle gay bashing that he did with Donnie McClurkin.

Oh, well, I guess that I'll be holding my nose when I pull the lever (metaphorically speaking, it will be either Diebold or Optiscan in November) for him.

My expectations are now low enough that I don't think that I will be disappointed.