- Posted by Christopher on August 14, 2008
Still grasping at straws, Hillary Clinton will get an old-style roll call vote at the Democrat convention. I suspect that the prime reason for this is to take some of the shine (or rather, Shinola) off of Obama and remind people that he's not royalty and that plenty of people still don't want him as the nominee, a number which appears to be growing.
Democrats say Hillary Rodham Clinton's name
will be placed in nomination at the convention in Denver with a roll
call for the vanquished rival of nominee-in-waiting Barack Obama.
The party will officially nominate Obama at the convention. But
Democrats familiar with the discussions say the former rivals made a
joint decision to place Clinton's name in nomination and do a
traditional role call of the state delegations.
What I find to be terribly ironic is that for all ranting about McCain, Hillary is becoming to Obama what McCain was to Bush, and that is the annoying senator who bucks the administration because of a personal grudge. If Obama gets coronated elected, that's exactly what she will become. Regardless, it will be even more interesting to see if Hillary tries for senate leadership next January.
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