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The Spectacle Blog
It was an amazing sight.
Democrats, under a fusillade of ridicule for ejecting God from their platform, decided to reconsider. In a parliamentary sense, this required amending the platform.
The amendment was proposed… and a vote called. The magic number required to accomplish this was two-thirds.
Here are the painful results.
The Convention chairman, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, called for the voice vote and…. hmmmm. No two/thirds of ayes or nays. He did it again. And finally, again.
So… with a glance at the teleprompter… the Mayor threw caution to the wind and did what he had apparently ordered by President Obama to do. Put God back in.
Thus a clearly divided convention — not to mention the watching national audience on TV — was preposterously told that “in the opinion of the chair” there was a two-thirds majority for God.
Clearly, this was an obvious untruth. Among other things, this small but very telling episode confirms just how far left the modern Democrats have become. Having one reference to God in a platform clearly couldn’t muster the necessary votes. Yow!
But forever after, it’s fair to say that whenever the Mayor steps into the national limelight, he will be known at least in this space as “Tony Two-Thirds.”
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ncatty| 9.6.12 @ 10:24AM
Ah, shades of Tip O'Neill.
Teflon93 | 9.6.12 @ 10:36AM
Democrats have long been the Party of Death; they're simply making it official now.
spike59| 9.6.12 @ 10:43AM
the same DNC that cheered abortion references
c. j. acworth| 9.6.12 @ 11:03AM
"In the opinion of the chair.."
That would be the Empty Chair, I suppose?
Paul McGrath| 9.6.12 @ 11:36AM
It's become clear that there is rather a stark contrast this election. A vote for Obama is a vote against God!
Jake| 9.6.12 @ 1:06PM
Allen West has a great ad distilling exactly what happened.
Hope the RNC takes something similar national.
Most normal people would be offended .
What an amazing display of religious intolerance .
Occam's Tool| 9.6.12 @ 4:32PM
The Dhimmicrats are hopeless. This clip should be the Republican ad, over and over.
CJW| 9.6.12 @ 6:06PM
Given the honest count Mayor Antonio gave the delegates on the motion to amend, he has a future as a professional wrestling referee.
Rich D| 9.6.12 @ 11:47PM
I did an audio analysis of each vote. In all three cases, the noes won, and by a larger margin each time. The final vote was a two-thirds majority for the noes (a 3 dB margin). Animal House?