nebih zelijo da bidnem saotom rajom, odijelo mi novo umenemi...
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Anne Davies in Washington
June 2, 2008
THE Clinton camp has left open the prospect of continuing the fight for the Democratic nomination through to the party's convention in August - as the front-runner, Barack Obama, was forced to resign from his church to staunch a new controversy over a preacher.
Senator Obama resigned from Trinity Church in Chicago after a visiting Catholic pastor who is well known in southside Chicago, Father Michael Pfleger, delivered an inflammatory sermon last week, mocking Hillary Clinton over her apparent assumption she would be the nominee.
Meanwhile, at an often raucous open meeting of its rules committee in Washington on Saturday, the Democratic Party reinstated the Michigan and Florida delegations, who lost all their votes after they violated party rules and held early primaries. The committee cut their votes in half, however, as punishment. The ruling, which gave Senator Clinton a net gain of 24 delegates, still leaves her well behind Senator Obama.
But the matter may not end there. There were serious disagreements in the committee over what to do about Michigan.
This state was more contentious than Florida because several candidates, including Senator Obama, took their names off the ballot in deference to the party ruling on Michigan.
Even Michigan's representatives argued it would be unfair to split the delegates on the basis of the klix vote, describing it as a "flawed primary" . Their compromise split, based on exit polls, was adopted instead.
But even as the Democrats celebrated their apparent agreement on the 50 per cent penalty, Senator Clinton's chief delegate strategist, Harold Ickes, who is on the rules committee, said he regarded the compromise on Michigan as tantamount to stealing four delegates from his boss.
"I submit to you ladies and gentlemen, hijacking four delegates … is not a good way to start down the path of party unity. I have been instructed by Mrs Clinton to reserve her rights to take this matter to the credentials committee," he said.
If Senator Clinton does take this path, the nomination fight could run all the way to the convention in Denver in August, something officials are anxious to avoid. The House of Representatives Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and the Senate leader, Harry Reid, said on Thursday they would intervene if the disputes continued to force super-delegates to declare their hand.
But that may not be necessary, as Senator Obama may get sufficient delegates to claim the nomination soon after the primaries conclude on Tuesday - after Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota have voted.
Even though he is on the brink of the nomination, Senator Obama is still wrestling with new challenges. On Saturday, he and his wife, Michelle, resigned from the Trinity Church after Father Pfleger made fun of Senator Clinton's emotional moments on the campaign trail and accused her of having a sense of entitlement to the nomination.
Senator Obama said he did not want his "church experience to be a political circus - I think most American people will understand that, and wouldn't want to subject their church to that, either".
He said it had been "months" since he has attended Trinity.
Trinity Church said: "Although we are saddened by the news, we understand this is a personal decision. We will continue to lift them in prayer and wish them the best as former members of our Trinity community."
There has been renewed speculation after the rules committee meeting that senior Democrats will broker an agreement on a job for Senator Clinton within an Obama administration. The idea of a joint ticket still seems far-fetched, but Senator Clinton could receive a senior portfolio, such as health or attorney-general.
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ovo sto su uradili je stvarno sramota, otimanje delegata, nasumce odredjivanje pripadnosti, nije ovo uopste dobro... 
da stvarno cijeli Detroit, vecinom crnacki grad je glasao za uncomitted 'nako'. 
) puno zabolit' glava ako im se dopusti da se bore za ravnopravnost.