In a move sure to anger Democratic activists, party leaders rammed through a re-write of the party platform Wednesday.

POLITICO reports the move came at the behest of President Obama after he saw news coverage of the elimination of passages referring to God and Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

I almost feel bad for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as he tried to make it seem like this vote was 2-to-1 in favor of the change. 

 

 

To add idiocy to insult and injury, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, Chair of the DNC, tried to argue it was merely a "technical correction."  After this, she canceled interviews and went into hiding.