Controversial US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has received a rapturous ovation at the Republican convention.

Jesse Petrilla, a 25-year-old delegate from Auburn, chatted with KCRA 3 at the Republican National Convention.

Remarks on the importance of service while speaking at the Delegate Service Day in Curtis Park, Denver.

(August 26) - Following Hillary Clinton's spectacular Democratic National Convention speech, one of her delegates, Ann Price Mills, tearfully tells CNN's Suzanne Malveaux that she is not sold on the man who lost to Clinton in the Democratic primary's popular vote, Barack Obama.

Ann Price Mills who was interviewed just after Hillary gave her Convention speech moved me to tears. She eloquently expressed so much of what we Hillary supporters are feeling. And I want to share her words and say thank you to her!

Still devoted to Hillary.

Clinton delegate to DNC is upset that her party did not nominate Sen. Clinton rather than Sen. Obama.

Steve Ybarra, a delegate at the Democratic National Convention, paid a price for his efforts to seek money for Latino outreach.

Debra Bartoshevich of Wisconsin says she's become so disillusioned by the Democratic Party's presumptive nomination of Barack Obama that she's defected to McCain. Harry Smith reports.

A Wisconsin Woman - and Hillary Clinton delegate - defends her decision to break with the Democratic Party and cast her vote for John McCain. The party bars Debbie Bartoshevich from the convention. Mike Gousha talks to both sides, Debbie Bartoshevich and Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Joe Wineke.

Howard Dean discusses his role in LGBT Delegate Selection. Gov. Dean Clip in DC Discrimination, Defamation, and Conspiracy to Defame Lawsuit.

UNICEF correspondent Rob McBride reports on Junior 8 delegates meeting with their adult counterparts at the G8 meeting in Japan.

The time has come for the greatest political showdown in history.

PlusClinton to Concede Delegate Race to ObamaClinton to Concede Delegate Race to ObamaThe Associated PressBarack Obama has effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, according to an Associated Press tally of delegates. Officials tell the AP that Hillary Clinton is prepared to acknowledge Obama's delegate tally. (June 3)[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] Barack Obama has effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination. The Associated Press tally is based on the number of delegates who have publicly committed to Obama, as well as more than a dozen who have privately committed. It also includes the minimum number of delegates Obama would get even if he loses the final primaries in South Dakota and Montana.Obama is the first black candidate to clinch the presidential nomination of a major party.He outlasted chief rival Hillary Clinton in a long primary that sparked record turnout, but exposed deep racial and gender division within the party. Clinton speaks Tuesday night in New York.Campaign officials tell the A-P that Clinton will acknowledge that Obama has the delegates needed to win. However, she does not intend to formally suspend or end her campaign.SOTChuck Babington/The Associated Press"I think she's just being realistic. The numbers have not been in her favor"Obama will face Republican John McCain in the general election. ___ ___, The Associated Press.

PlusStage Set for Michigan, Florida Delegate FightStage Set for Michigan, Florida Delegate FightThe Associated PressThe DNC rules and bylaws committee meets Saturday to work out a solution to the Michigan and Florida problem. Both states had their delegates stripped because they held their primaries too early. (May 30)[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] [Notes:clinton/obama split screen]Democratic divisions will be on public display this weekend. The party's rules and bylaws committee meets Saturday to discuss what to do about Michigan and Florida. The Democratic National Committee stripped both states of their delegates because they held their primaries too early.Hillary Clinton's campaign is pushing for all of the delegates to be seated.She won both contests, but only after all candidates agreed not to campaign in Florida, and Obama had his name taken off the ballot in Michigan. Democratic strategist Jenny Backus says it's likely the committee will settle on a compromise.SOTJenny Backus/Dem Strategist"what we'll probably see happen is a split. The committee will give the state's half their delegates...."The biggest story Saturday could be what's happening outside the meeting.Clinton supporters are mobilizing for a protest that's expected to include several busloads of Clinton backers from Florida. Democrats say there's a danger of showing too much anger this late in the primary season.SOTJenny Backus"there's a lot of anger among Clinton supporters and it's all going to play out in public...."No matter what happens Saturday, Obama is growing increasingly close to clinching the Democratic nomination.The primaries wrap up with votes Sunday in Puerto Rico, and Tuesday in Montana and South Dakota.The party is hoping a solution on Michigan and Florida will keep the contest from dragging on into the summer. ___ ___, The Associated Press.

Look at Clinton's math. She leads only if you give her 328,000 votes for the Soviet-style Michigan election, while giving Obama zero for not being on the ballot. And if you then ignore the caucuses of Iowa, Nevada, Maine, and my own state of Washington -- where a record quarter million people turned out to participate. Our votes don't count under Clinton's math. She disappears them down the memory hole of history in an argument that invents reality as much as Bush's claims of Iraq Weapons of Mass Destruction or Clinton's earlier story about running the gauntlet of Bosnian sniper fire. Clinton said, "No matter what happens, I will work as hard as I can to elect a Democratic president this fall." But then she insisted once again, that "we are winning the popular vote." This lie undermined every word she said about coming together...The superdelegates understand the real math, or they ought to. But given the "bitterness" of so many Clinton supporters toward reality that the woman they thought would be America's first female president will not be, the more they hear a story that suggests Obama's win is illegitimate, the more likely they are to bolt. If Clinton's voters embrace that story that "a man took it away from a woman," denied her a victory she rightly deserved, they're at risk of staying home come November, or holding back from the volunteering and the get out the vote efforts necessary for the Democrats to prevail...polls actually have Obama doing marginally better in Michigan than Clinton, nor have they explored the impact of roughly 60,000 Democratic voters who crossed over in Michigan to vote Republican...Clinton's argument also ignores that this isn't how the rules are set up, and that if they had been, Obama would have made more than three brief visits to California and one to New York State. Clinton's been praised of late for refraining from any truly outrageous comments, like her claim, following the Indiana and North Carolina primaries two weeks ago, that only she has the support of hard working white voters...every time she claims she has a popular majority, she's shattering whatever ceasefire exists and making it that much more likely that her supporters stay home come November. If she really wants a united party, she needs to stop, and the media and the superdelegates need to hold her accountable.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-loeb/the-bosnian-sniper-math-o_b_102979.html
It is incomprehensible to me that Mrs. Clinton can seriously be touting the notion...that she is leading in the popular vote and should therefore be seriously considered as the most electable candidate in the November election. She's including those who voted for her in Florida and Michigan's name recognition ballot saying that to exclude them would be to disenfranchise them. What about the Democrats in Alaska, American Samoa, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Nebraska, Washington, Hawaii and Wyoming who did not cast ballots because they were playing by the pledged delegates playbook and voted by caucus. What about them? Certainly if the rules are going to be changed and judgment is based on the 'popular' vote those voters in the eleven caucus states and Samoa will be disenfranchised. What about them?
And what about us? What about the American people? Haven't we had enough of Mrs. Clinton's mad antics in her pursuit of the realization of venal personal ambition; her 'say anything, do anything, no matter what' effort to manipulate our all too willing media to gull this country's populace into believing that her wretched illegitimacy is indeed legitimate. How much mendacity do we have to suffer, how much brazenness do we have to swallow before someone, anyone, has the decency, the common sense, to relieve us of this terrible trifle, this pathetic madness?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donald-sutherland/hillarys-popular-vote-not_b_104152.html
What you'll see televised from the DNC's Rules and By-laws Committee meeting on Saturday, May 31, will be a swarm of irate Hillary Backers carrying signs and protesting any possible outcome of the Mich./Fl. debacle other than a no-fault decision with the votes going to HRC. She needs 'em. And she needs the rules changed, despite the fact that she agreed with the DNC's decision last fall. But that was when she was still "inevitable"...Whether he liked them or not, Senator Obama played by the DNC's rules in Michigan and Florida. Senator Clinton thought the rules were just fine so long as she was front runner and destined to win the nomination. The specter of losing compels Hillary to change the rules. Of course, she's not playing this bait and switch game only because she has to win this thing any way she can--she's the new, improved populist who cannot bear the thought of a single vote not counting for all it's worth. Not a one. Unless it's a caucus state vote.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-hansen/washington-rules-committe_b_104264.html

Take Michigan: Even though it was an "election" worthy of Joseph Stalin or Saddam Hussein, with no major opponent on the ballot (because the others honored an agreement she retroactively broke), 41% of voters chose nobody when given the opportunity to vote only for Sen. Clinton. Here's what would have happened in Michigan if Hillary Clinton had not been the only leading candidate on the ballot : Based on exit polls taken at the time, she would have received 46% of the vote to 35% for Obama and 12% for John Edwards. That means that, with Edwards' endorsement, Obama would now be getting more Michigan delegates -- and more of its "popular votes" -- than Clinton. But because he honored the agreement and she didn't, she now wants a one-sided agreement that rewards her behavior.

Or take the Florida election: Clinton and her supporters want those votes counted because it will add numbers to this "popular vote" argument. But John Edwards got 251,562 votes in that invalidated primary. Shouldn't those votes be added to Obama's total now? That would bring Hillary's meaningless "popular vote" margin there down from 294,772 to 43,000. Throw in the votes from Dodd et al. and Hillary actually lost Florida's "popular vote" (she received 49% of the vote total).

See how meaningless this metric really is? Please, Clinton supporters: Stop using this damaged and destructive logic. I know that "counting every vote" sounds like a high-minded principle, but it's not. When the Clinton campaign dreamed it up, they knew it would mean defending a Stalin-like vote in Michigan and using M.C. Escher logic in Florida, but they guessed that these nuances would be lost on many supporters - and they have been. They knew it meant reversing a pledge that Sen. Clinton acknowledged on video (in defending the fact her name stayed on the ballot), but so what? Apparently "counting every vote" is a more compelling "principle" than "keeping your word."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/more-people-have-voted-ia_b_104093.html
A reader writes:
My question to you and anyone else who may be interested is: Why is it that the Democrats who played by the rules are now to be punished? I am a 51 year old white woman with two daughters who live, work and attend school in Florida. Both of them played by the rules and did not vote in the Florida primary as they were told their votes would not count. Why is no one concerned about their disenfranchisement? Why should people who broke the rules and voted be granted better treatment than those who did the right thing?..the rules are for the little people, not the Clintons.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/05/playing-by-the.html
What you'll see televised from the DNC's Rules and By-laws Committee meeting on Saturday, May 31, will be a swarm of irate Hillary Backers carrying signs and protesting any possible outcome of the Mich./Fl. debacle other than a no-fault decision with the votes going to HRC. She needs 'em. And she needs the rules changed, despite the fact that she agreed with the DNC's decision last fall. But that was when she was still "inevitable".

While Camp Clinton bats their collective baby blues and denies organizing a mini-mob scene to influence the decision..they've been actively urging Clinton supporters to pressure the DNC to fix the game Hillary's Way.Obama's volunteers, with a little encouragement, could have overrun the city. They got no such encouragement. What Obama volunteers got from HQ was a clear message: Do not go. Do not protest. Do not pressure the DNC. This is not who we are. We are about changing this kind of political posturing. There are better ways, more positive ways, to use your time. Phone banking. Canvassing. Registering new voters.

Whether he liked them or not, Senator Obama played by the DNC's rules in Michigan and Florida. Senator Clinton thought the rules were just fine so long as she was front runner and destined to win the nomination. The specter of losing compels Hillary to change the rules. Of course, she's not playing this bait and switch game only because she has to win this thing any way she can--she's the new, improved populist who cannot bear the thought of a single vote not counting for all it's worth. Not a one. Unless it's a caucus state vote.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-hansen/washington-rules-committe_b_104264.html

Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall is a candidate for the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate; and Conservative Roundtable host, Howard Phillips had the opportunity to interview him about his service in the legislature, his campaign, his beliefs and the important issues of this year. The nominee for the seat being vacated by John Warner will be selected at the Virginia State Republican Convention in Richmond, May 31, 2008. http://www.BobMarshall2008.com

Delegate Marshall worked at the Office of Economic Opportunity with Mr. Phillips in the 1970's, helping to cut government spending. He contrasts his stand on key issues with the views of his opponent, Jim Gilmore on amnesty, pro-life and other issues; and details his fight in the legislature against unconstitutional taxing authorities. In November, he would face Democrat Mark Warner.

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YES - FOUR MORE YEARS OF A REPUBLICAN WILL SUCK - BUT HILLARY IS THE ONLY CHOICE FOR ME!
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REAGAN DEMOCRATS SAY NO! TO BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!
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HILLARY HAS FOUGHT FOR US AND NOW REGARDLESS OF WHAT SHE OR ANYONE ELSE SAYS ABOUT PARTY UNITY - WE WILL FIGHT FOR HER!

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http://oaklandfocus.blogspot.com - This is a 20 minute movie on the dramatic event that was the convention held in Oakland, CA to elect delegates to represent the 9th Congressional District and Barack Obama. It drew 2,000 people.

CNN

Democratic SuperDelegate,CNN political analyst and longtime Clintonite Donna Brazile contributes to this informative discussion an primer on the whole SuperDelegate process...


(The quote takes place at 2:35)

"...I was appointed in 1998 by Bill Clinton and Al Gore and Dick Gephardt, and yes, our role is to help build the party, not to decide elections.

I get two votes.

I get a vote on Tuesday here in the Democratic primary in the District of Columbia.That vote is mine.
But as a SuperDelegate, I believe that vote belongs to the American people...And Therefore I will withhold committing to any candidate until the voters decide..."



CNN February 09 2008


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Let there be no doubt as to whom she will vote for when the time comes.
Donna Brazile has been bought and paid for by the Clintons.

At the end of the CNN clip, she does say that if she has to decide the nominee in this fashion, she will vacate her position on the DNC.

Yea, just like Hillary kept her word not to campaign in Florida, and even now they are lobbying to try and claim those disputed delegates that have been nullified.

Let's not forget, as a SuperDelegate,
Bill Clinton gets two votes also.



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We were in Denver and talked to lots of DNC peeps including young delegates, protestors, and attendees...

Le sponsor Adidas donne rendez-vous au public la mardi 26 août à 15h dans son magasin des Champs-Elysées pour accueillir une partie de la délégation olympique française. Nous y étions et nous avons rencontré l'équipe de ...

Alors qu'une délégation immercurienne d'une vingtaine de personnes était partie sur place encourager la kayakiste artésienne, Saint-Laurent-Blangy avait prévu un écran géant pour la finale du K2, ce matin ...

SUR LA ROUTE DE PÉKIN: Dernière émission, visite de Pékin à quelques jours de la cérémonie - CCTV Olympique: les jeux 24h/24 - La délégation française éparpillée en Chine - Découvrez l'Heure de Pékin dès vendredi 08/08.

NEW CLIP EXCLU ! THE SUPERMEN LOVERS vs Delegation. Lockers ballet réalisé par Poloemaro. 5 ans après "Starlight" The Supermen Lovers Return !

Fathers Day in Beverly Hills and the "Haute Wheels" celebrating "Car Couture" Concours d'Elegance. Over 100 Cars and 30,000 people attended this event. Cars included....

Marie Oser is in Goa to cover the 37th Congress of the International Vegetarian Union. Interviews with delegates and atendees from across the globe.

Delegates competing in the swimsuit competition for the Miss California Queen of Sports Pageant in 2008

"Born on an island, his family didn't have much, but Barack Obama understands the worries of parents on our island," says the narrator of this Puerto Rico ad, which leads with education and mentions Iraq, and is also airing in Spanish.

At the Sean Bell Rally, a protester takes a minute to explain to Lindsay why he's disillusioned with the Democratic Party

Should Hillary Clinton bow out of the primary or take it all the way to the DNC?

Does Philadelphia's brotherly love matter when the decision ultimately lies on the shoulders of the Super Delegates?

Comedian Eddie Griffin puts Hillary Clinton on blast!

Hillary shows us another side and offers a musical message to her opponent.
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Hillary Clinton showed courage under fire as she and Chelsea greeted the Bosnian delegation despite determined snipers.

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Sunday Show Roundup: Rules, Rules, Rules

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: The Republicans' best hope in 2008 might just be the maddening debate raging within the Democratic Party over the rules governing super delegates and the seating of delegates from Florida and Michigan. Who's playing by the rules, who's trying to change them mid-game, and how might the Democrats find a way to screw up 2008? We explore in today's Sunday Show Roundup episode of TPMtv.

Obama Delivers Victory Speech in South Carolina Columbia, S.C. SEN. BARACK OBAMA, D-ILL.: Thank you, South Carolina. This Story * Obama Is Big Winner in S.C...

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Ulysse GOSSET gives you the opportunity to interview Christine Lagarde, the French Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade...

Alalala impossible de rester immobile sur un son pareil! Un superbe mix réalisé par le groupe delegation avec les chansons "heartache n°9", "Darlin' (i think about you)", "Where is the love", "You and i"! Merci pour tous vos coms!