Bent Corner

Former Vermont governor, failed presidential candidate, and current Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has issued an ultimatum of sorts to Democratic superdelegates; he wants them to decide now who they will be voting for at the Democratic National Convention in August.

He wants to lock down the Democratic nominee as soon as possible.

And I thought Doctor Dean was a stickler for keeping to a schedule. He disenfranchised Democrats in both Florida and Michigan because both states dared to hold their primaries before Dean said they could.

He can’t have it both ways. He can’t penalize the voters in Florida and Michigan because they supposedly voted early and then demand that superdelegates do the very same thing by declaring who they plan on voting for in August.

Decision Time, Says Dean [Yahoo]

Members of the lefty blog Daily Kos who are supporting Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination are boycotting the popular website over what they feel to be a pro-Obama, anti-Clinton bias. From the New York Times political blog, The Caucus:

One user, Sentient, called for a “permanent succession”:

“Why should this site and Kos profit from the traffic we add to DailyKos, and the sense by outsiders that it represents the netroots as a whole?” the blogger asked, adding later, “But I just don’t see how people come back together on a daily basis after a falling out like this.”

I see Sentient’s point. I don’t do a lot of reading over at Daily Kos. Though I’m a tree hugging liberal, I don’t care much for the format over there. The whole “Diary” thing kind of creeps me out. People don’t write posts. They write diaries that are to be read by everyone else. I always thought reading someone else’s diary was wrong?

It’s not hard for me to imagine how things have been for pro-Hillary people over at Daily Kos. I’ve seen how pro-Hillary people are being treated by the members of Democratic Underground. By the way folks over there have been acting, you wouldn’t know that Hillary Clinton has received over 12.5 millions votes compared to Barack Obama’s 13.2 million votes. You would think that every Democrat has voted for Obama.

Granted, Obama is currently in the lead of the overall popular vote, but only slightly.

So what is Daily Kos trying to do about this? Not much. Also from The Caucus:

Markos Moulitsas, the founder of DailyKos, spoke to Jake Tapper of ABC News about the so-called strike, which he said was really more like a “boycott.”

“But whatever they call it, I think it’s great,” Mr. Moulitsas said. “It’s a big Internet, so I hope they find what they’re looking for.”

What a strange comment for someone to say that makes a living by driving people to his website. The less people he has visiting Daily Kos, the less money in ad revenue he takes in. Could Markos Moulitsas be on the Obama payroll? It wouldn’t be the first time he accepted money from a Democratic candidate.