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-Election 2012
Dems to reinstate language on Jerusalem
2012-09-06
[NBC News] NBC News has learned that the Democratic Party will reinstate the language recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Republicans -- including the Romney campaign -- criticized President Obama and the Democrats after it was discovered this language had been omitted in the Democratic Party's platform This will all be changed on the floor today, NBC has learned, and it will probably mean just simply reinstating the 2008 language.
As this article says, it was quite a hoot. The voice vote FAILED three times, after which the chair of the convention, L.A.'s mayor Villaraigosa, declared it 'passed' in fine Chicago style. The response? Delegates booed; some at the motion, some at the way it was handled.

By the way, the word is Obama -- blanching at the loss of the Jewish vote -- ordered the wording back in, but had seen the language before the convention and thought it was okay. Our man Champ couldn't manage either a lemonade stand OR a high school student council properly.
Posted by:Fred

#14  the jewish weeklies have started to come out

the one I get had a page 1 article about the problem with the original platform but, because of content deadlines didn't have anything about the platform amendment or the Wasserman-Schultz lie about the Israeli ambassador.
Posted by: lord garth   2012-09-06 21:07  

#13  Video removed by user Beaver. Though who knows if it was the users will or not.
Posted by: Charles   2012-09-06 17:36  

#12  

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Posted by: Beavis   2012-09-06 13:37  

#11  Okay, this is such an obvious example of the GOP being inside the Dem OODA loop that it's hardly worth mentioning.

BUT, there were two choices...1) come down on the Dem platform right away, as they did, 2) wait till after the convention and THEN blast them for it.

Which would have been better?
Personally I go with number 1 because it made the Dems complicit in the publication of the disaster. Waiting would have allowed the MSM to bury the whole thing.
Posted by: AlanC   2012-09-06 11:52  

#10  Here's the three minute voice vote on cnn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cncbOEoQbOg&feature=player_embedded#!

Posted by: Muggsy Glink   2012-09-06 11:34  

#9  

Axelclod and president Jarret throw fellow Dems under the bus
Posted by: Beavis   2012-09-06 11:34  

#8  

Here's the cock crowing.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2012-09-06 10:29  

#7  

War in the land of a nation is always God's judgement of that nation.
Posted by: Phating tse Tung5744   2012-09-06 10:10  

#6  hmmm...almost as if the actual ayes and nays didn't matter
Posted by: Frank G   2012-09-06 09:27  

#5  Interesting how, by voice vote, they clearly denied both God and Israel three times

Sort of 'End Times' stuff there to see, if Hollyweird actually wrote a plausible script themselves.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-09-06 08:22  

#4  good catch besoeker but no rooster crowing this time

anyway, the WaPo and the NYTimes both treated this as a minor matter burying it deep with boring headlines
Posted by: lord garth   2012-09-06 07:09  

#3  Intersting how, by voice vote, they clearly denied both God and Israel three times.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-09-06 06:45  

#2  Iff the US Mainstream didn't believe that the DemoLeft no longer represents theirs or American interests, they do now thanks to this brouhaha.

IIRC CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER = opined that the fact that the voice vote ocurred three times shows that this is NOT the Democratic Party of yesteryear, ee the Dems of our Parents or Grandparents generation.

The invitation of a Muslim delegation to the DNC should also not be underestimated - I think the DNC did as such, in part, was because IMO it would've been hypocritical or insensitive to invite Allah-fearing Muslims to the DNC where they would observe a Dem agendum devoid of any references to God, Faith, or Moralism-Ethics.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-09-06 00:16  

#1  It really does not matter. It is quite apparent what they feel about Both. Makes no sense to try to put it back in. I know all I need to know about them already.
Posted by: newc   2012-09-06 00:07  

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