[lbo-talk] [Pen-l] EI: Did Democratic delegates just vote down Obama bid to pander to AIPAC on Jerusalem?

Robert Naiman naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
Wed Sep 5 17:12:40 PDT 2012


Holy cow.

If that happened in the floor of the House, there would have been a procedure to ask for a recorded vote. I wonder why that didn't happen?

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is absolutely hilarious. Obama tried to appease AIPAC by inserting
> language on Jerusalem as "Israel's" capital into the Democratic party
> platform, then faced a delegate revolt, but Los Angeles Mayor Antonio
> Villaraigosa declared that the change had passed by the necessary two-thirds
> majority anyway (when anyone watching the video can see and hear that it did
> not).
>
> http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/did-democratic-delegates-just-vote-down-obama-bid-pander-aipac-jerusalem
>
> --
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> lytlað."
>
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