How Obama handled the Michigan and Florida Voters goes to his moral Character. The necessity to deal with the rules had to do with the victims of the punishment.
It was the State Democrat Party that violated the rules......and in Florida's case it was the State of Florida that broke the rules with a Republican Governor and Republican state Senate, but the blunt of the punishment was the Candidates and the Voters.
Forget the Candidates....... the voters were the ones that suffered the most........ there lies the problem...... Ignore them in the Primaries and they will ignore the Party in the General Election.
Florida Democrats had the best argument.... they didn't break the rules.
Party broke the rules in Michigain..... Once the National Party decided to look at bending the rules, it created even more problems.... .(preventing a land slide of states rushing to schedule at any time at the next opportunity)
This was not Clinton's idea to break the rules..... she wanted the voters validated..... and really we, you and I, wanted them validated.
Once everyone wanted the same thing.... then it was a matter of how to do it.
The real problem was the race became too close ...... it would have bee better to not have to deal with it.......
You lost respect for Clinton..... Many lost respect for Obama.
Votes counted as voted would not have changed anything, he still would have the majority of state delegates...... so, why not do this and take the high ground? That became the real question. He blocked the re-vote, and blocked the count..... In the end, they manipulated the count. Why? I don't know......
Unless the gap did narrow and he did not want to lose argument?
This goes back to and ends with the real victims here.......
Remember.... he does not lose anything, Clinton does not win anything...... The voters, either lose or win..... they did not make the end result look like the voters won....... they lost.
Votes were taken from some and given to others.
Michigan, they gave Obama all of the Undecided, some of which belonged to Edwards......40%..... then they bumped it up to 59%, which means other voters gave to Obama.
So, if the Voters were the real victims all along.... they ended up the victims in the end. The whole thing sucked.
Who should we be upset with? Clinton? For me it was more Obama and Democrat Party.... they had the power to do the right thing and didn't.