The Clinton faction was unsuccessful in their attempt to use the party platform process to ban the use of caucuses in future presidential contests. It was an effort to delegitimize Barack Obama’s victory and it went along with a bunch of other unseemly behavior.
Tensions between Obama and Clinton forces were evident at the Convention Center here, where the meeting took place. Clinton’s supporters sat together in the audience, wearing campaign buttons and T-shirts bearing her name. One person hissed when Obama’s name was mentioned.
Among the activists serving on the committee, there were also signs of a split.
Lynn Forester de Rothschild, the head of a private holding company and a member of the committee, took the microphone after the caucus amendment was defeated to register a protest.
After the meeting, she said she still hadn’t made up her mind about whether to vote for Obama because she didn’t “understand how a person comes to the U.S. Senate and — before they’ve done one thing there — decides they can be president.”
“I have serious questions about Barack Obama and what the Democratic Party is doing,” she said. “I have serious issues with Barack Obama.”
I can readily understand why a Rothschild that is the owner of a Holding Company might be a little reticent to choose Barack Obama over John McCain. But I don’t think it makes for good press for the Clinton camp.
