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On Sep 5, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:
> 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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