Prometheus 6

As I recall, Jesse never got one. 

Julian Bond’s Letter and The Delegate Problem
February 13th, 2008 by Sherrilyn Ifill

I don’t want to even waste time on Sen. Clinton’s desperate reversal on this issue – her conduct speaks for itself.  I’m more interested in the distorted reporting of Julian Bond’s letter.      On Yahoo the headline reads “NAACP Head Wants Barred Delegates Seated,” http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080212/ap_on_el_pr/delegates_blacks.  The Baltimore Sun says under the same headline that Bond warned in his letter to Dean that “Refusing to seat the States’ delegations could remind voters of the ‘sordid history of racially discriminatory primaries.’”  http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-delegates-blacks,0,2693272.story.  But that’s not what Bond says.  The exact quote from the letter is:  “While we recognize and appreciate that the Democratic party has done much over the past decades to overcome the sordid history of racially discriminatory primaries and other obsticles [sic] placed in the way of full voter participation in the electoral process, we are deeply concerned that not finding a solution to this delima [sic] that recognizes the will and intent of the Florida and Michagan [sic] voters could cast troubling aspertions [sic] on the democratic process of selecting candidates in a fully and equally inclusive manner.” http://www.politico.com/static/PPM43_080212_naacpletter.html  Now the spelling errors alone first made me think that this letter was a hoax, like the bogus letter issued a day or so before, purporting to be from the NAACP and listing “10 reasons to vote for Sen. Obama.” http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.naacp12feb12,0,7473345.story  But so far, I haven’t heard that the letter was repudiated by Chairman Bond.