The DNC has said it would allow Florida and Michigan to hold other contests, likely caucuses, that would comply with party rules. Top Democrats in both states have rejected that idea, including Michigan icluding Michigan Sen. Carl Levin, who fought for the Jan. 15 primary(and endorses Clinton).

The caucus idea might be the way to go, although the process, based on the campaign so far favors Obama. But I think it is going to be either this or the Clinton forces will end up getting nothing, if they think they will be able to reinstate the Florida/ Michigan delegates in an August Convention credentials fight.

If any change is to be made to the rules (caucus/re-do in MI and/or FL), it is only fair that the Dems should all over again. The rules about MI/FL affected the strategies of all the candidates, including Biden/Dodd/Richardson/Kucinich etc. True democracy.

How big a snow job will the black citizens take before they wise up. He won't help them and as his trillion dollar tax increase proposal shows he will send the tax dollars to the Arab countries by the boat load.

Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian, that from his mother. What those who want Mr. Obama to write history by becoming "America's first African-American president" ignore is that his father was ethnically Arabic, with only 1 relative - a maternal grandparent, ethnically African Negro.

That means that Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother's side, and "43.75% Arabic", and 6.25% African Negro from his father's side.

Obama better be made of stern stuff..The key may be not to avoid losing control of the Convention Credentials Committee, to Clintonites like Harold Ickes who will cheat as much as they have to

On Florida and Michigan, the (Clinton) campaign again said voters in those states should not be "disenfranchised" and that the states were important to the Democratic Party's fortunes. Ickes also said Clinton didn't vote on the DNC rules.

But Ickes did. And he voted in August to strip Florida and Michigan of their delegates as a sitting member of the Rules and Bylaws Commission.

"There's been no change," Ickes said, adding that he was then acting as a member of the Rules and Bylaws Committee "not acting as an agent of Sen. Clinton. We had promulgated rules -- if Florida and Michigan violated those rules" they'd be stripped of their delegates. "We stripped them of all their delegates in order to prevent campaigns to campaign in those states."

In fact, however, that was not why Florida and Michigan were stripped of their delegates. They were stripped of their delegates because they violated party rules by moving up their contest dates before Feb. 5. A pledge to not campaign in those states did not come about until one was put forward by the four early states allowed to go before Feb. 5 by the DNC -- Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina. Clinton was the last to sign this pledge.

"Those were the rules, and we thought we had an obligation to enforce them," Ickes acknowledged today on the call even while trying to convince members of the media that Florida's and Michigan's delegations should not only be seated at the convention, but should also have full voting rights and that delegates should be allocated based on voting that took place in those states -- even though in Michigan, Obama's name did not even appear on the ballot and uncommitted got 41% of the vote to Clinton's 55%.

Now that he is Clinton agent he feels he has no obligation to honor those rules..This is the kind of old politician with no honor, that Obama would love to sweep away.