Do Votes Count?

So the Democratic Rules Committee gave Michigan and Florida half voting rights... not the best of circumstances, but not a terrible adventure in Presidential politics. Honestly, those two states shouldn't have any delegates sitting in the national committee because they broke the rules. But this is Presidential politics and Florida is involved so some shit was expected to come out of the process.

Most people predicted that each state would get half, and that's what happened.

What's interesting is that Puerto Rico is having a primary, because those people -- while I believe are US Citizens -- don't get to vote in the November General Election. So it's kind of stupid to have them vote in the primary, but I don't make the rules.

Did you see the HBO TV Moive "RECOUNT"? It was an interesting look at the debacle that was the 2000 Election... you would think that a movie about voting discrenpancies would be less entertaining than it was, not to say it didn't take me two viewings to get through it (as I nodded off the first time near the end). What it did do was shed some light on that main event that eventually led to the posting Prescott Bush's Grandson into the Oval Office and enabled him to take on the moniker of "The Nero of the Pax Americana" -- yeah, that's how he's going to be seen in the history books, the out of touch leader who not only led the country into a war that he knew never had a remote change of being completely under his watch or as easily or cheapily as he was told. Yes, as he was told, but didn't listen to effectively to those people.

I had an opportunity to read the new Oliver Stone movie called "W", a semi-trenchant look at George W. Bush's years in the White House and how that idiot got there in the first place. It's not going to be what you expect from Stone, because it's not a scathing lashing out attack of the worst president ever... no, it paints the man as a woefully incompetant manager, who could never live up to his parents' expectations.