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Date: 20 May 2008 12:48:23
Today the electorates of Kentucky and Oregon get to vote for their Democratic nominee for this autumn's Presidential election.
It seems that this year's democratic primaries are never ending affairs. Today's votes will not actually decide anything either. It looks like this race will go down to the wire. What it seems to have done is deppen the Democrats' problems. What should have been a battle for the likely next president has turned into a battle of attrition with more damaged caused to the runners than their Republican opponent.
The battle is so hard that the Clinton camp are trying to win by legal means. They say that the voided primaries in Michigan and Floridam, which she won, should be counted in the final vote. Yet the Democratic leadership has already said that they shouldn't.
In an honourable election Hilary should have conceeded by now so that the Democrats can unite and fight the Republicans. In reality she seems hell bent on dragging it out to the very end and damaging her party's image. It seems that her personal ambition is more important than anything else.
History Today :
325 : Emperor Constatine calls the Council of Nicaea and lays the foundations up Christian belief, in view of its elevation to state religion. Some would say that this was the marriage of Roman paganism with Christian belief - to make the transition more pagan friendly. I weasn't there so I don't know...
1940 : THe first concentration camp is established at Auschwitz under SS commandant Rudilf Hoess. Within 3 years it will become the largest camp in the Nazi empire and the centre of the extermination process.
2002 : East Timor gains independence from Indonesia and becomes the first new country of the 21st Century.