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"To honor and celebrate" the "voices and votes" of the primaries, "both Senator Obama's and Senator Clinton's names will be placed in nomination."

Ah! What thrills await us? Or do you think it will be pure and dignified honoring and celebrating of the voices?

Although Clinton will be nominated, and there will be a roll-call vote on her nomination, the two sides are still working out the mechanics of how that will happen, aides said. Clinton will not have enough delegates to win the nomination, which Obama will formally secure before delivering his acceptance speech on Thursday night.

How can you be so sure? The nomination will be determined by the superdelegates, and they can do what they want.

ADDED: This news made me go reread Maureen Dowd's column from a couple days ago:

Obama ... allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform suggesting that media sexism spurred her loss and that ?demeaning portrayals of women ... dampen the dreams of our daughters.? This, even though postmortems, including the new raft of campaign memos leaked by Clintonistas to The Atlantic ? another move that undercuts Obama ? finger Hillary?s horrendous management skills....

It would have been better to put this language in the platform: ?A woman who wildly mismanages and bankrupts a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar campaign operation, and then blames sexism in society, will dampen the dreams of our daughters.?

Dampen the dreams of our daughters...

Those platform writers know about alliteration, but they don't notice the imagery.

Full post as published by Althouse on August 14, 2008 (boomark / email).