I stand by MOM in his right to be on the debate stage and ask all Clinton supporters to stand by me

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Yes-that's the great man signing!

Hadas Gold ‏@Hadas_Gold 17m17 minutes ago

Dem debate criteria announced: must reach an average of 5 % either nationally or in Iowa, NH or SC in 5 recent polls recognized by NBC


Gabriel Debenedetti ‏@gdebenedetti 4m4 minutes ago
Just in: @MartinOMalley is in very serious danger of not making the debate stage on January 17. Story with @POLITICO_Steve coming shortly.

**update**

DNC says it expects him on stage

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. I want O'Malley up on the stage.

If we had 13 or more candidates, it might be an issue, but with three, he should be there.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Precisely

[Gawdless Pinko Lib]

17. Of course!

Is this even an issue?

[Agnosticsherbet]

24. Several articles have been posted saying that O'Malley does not meet NBC's criteria for inclusion

in the next debate due to his poll numbers.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251983829

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251983819

[brooklynite]

35. And the news analysis says he does...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=984054

[Agnosticsherbet]

56. News analysis has been known to be wrong.

I look forward to seeing him in the debates.

[liberal from boston]

22. Martin O'Malley

Totally agree Agnosticsherbet!!!

[FSogol]

3. Unlike the Republican party, news organizations don't get to dictate who appears in our debates.

The DNC decides. O'Malley will be there.

[Peacetrain]

36. ^^^^^^^

The media is trying to pick the two candidates who will face off with each other in the general to boost their bottom lines.. and that is how I feel about that

[NurseJackie]

4. Of COURSE he should be there! It's not like anyone actually needs to invent arbitrary ...

... conditions to "make room" on stage for a dozen or so unqualified candidates.

Give me a break! He deserves to be up there as much as Bernie does, and I hope he will be!

[fbc]

48. Actually they do need to create conditions for inclusion

Or should Ed O'Donnell also be included?

https://www.facebook.com/Ed-ODonnell-for-President-142827705827617/

How about the 50 or so other declared candidates?

[firebrand80]

5. I wouldn't say he has a "right"

But it does seem a little silly to impose such restrictions on a 3 person race.

[NCTraveler]

6. K&R

While I get what they are doing, our party gets stronger the more air time O'Malley has.

[MoonRiver]

7. He should definitely be on stage.

NBC made a very stupid and pointless decision.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Chuck Todd is acting like a petulant tyrant./nt

[MoonRiver]

10. I've really learned to loathe that guy.

I think he has a Napoleon complex.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. I never was a fan of his./nt

[Glamrock]

25. Chuck Turd is no journalist.

He's nothing but a well paid poll reader.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

57. I love polls but he's a walking banality./nt

[stage left]

9. K&R

I want to see O'Malley in the debate as well.

[sadoldgirl]

11. I agree totally: He should be there!

Is the reason to eliminate him from the debate
in any form more profitable to the media?

[leftofcool]

12. I agree!

[Beacool]

14. Yes, he should be in the debate.

There are only three Democrats running, O'Malley should be allowed on the stage.

[book_worm]

15. Unlike the GOP field there are only three candidates so he should be allowed to debate.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. One MOM=Ten GOP CLOWNS/nt

[global1]

18. Well Let's See Just How Effective DWS Is Here.....

She should demand NBC to include all three candidates and threaten to pull the debate from NBC if they exclude O'Malley.

Although I'm thinking she would be ok if only Hillary was allowed to be in the debate and the other two were excluded by NBC.

[Ellen Forradalom]

19. Of course he should be there.

He's a candidate.

Besides, It's not like there's a clown car like across the aisle.

[Nonhlanhla]

20. Yes, he should be there. n/t

[1monster]

21. Agreed. I do not believe the "news"media should be choosing our candidates

for us, nor narrowing the field. Their job is to report events, not shape them.

[Dustlawyer]

23. +1!!! Part of the corporate selection of who we can vote for!

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I support Bernie, who would benefit the most by MOM dropping out. Having said that, MOM needs to be on that stage!
I do not wish to live under this corporate rule! They have been used to giving us the candidates to choose from. They do it mostly by deciding who gets campaign money and who doesn't. Now they want to eliminate MOM and Bernie because they are not playing the game. I say FU to that!
We are going to win and regain Representative Democracy! We are going to have Publicly Funded Elections and bust up the media and banking oligarchs. We need some laws to protect us from being propagandize over our own public airwaves. Their day of reckoning is coming soon!

[Glamrock]

28. Yeah!

Agree wholeheartedly

[demwing]

47. I wouldn't be so sure that Bernie benefits the most from MO'Ms absence

O'Malley helps legitimize Bernie's message. The more populist voices that are given a mic, the more Hillary seems out of touch and isolated by her corporate ties.

[okasha]

26. Not NBC's decision.

O'Malley should be in the debate.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

27. i agree.

[Metric System]

29. Agreed.

[Metric System]

30. Agreed.

[hay rick]

31. Disappointing. nt

[peacebird]

32. Of course Martin O'Malley must be on the debate stage, and the mods must call on him equally

I am a Bernie supporter, but I firmly believe all our candidates should be in the debate, and given equal time.

[elleng]

41. If ONLY they WOULD call on him equally.

[JonLeibowitz]

33. I stand with you. k&r. It was bad enough that Lessig was excluded

[zazen]

34. agreed, for same reason we need twice as many debates: EACH HELPS US

I'm a huge Bernie supporter, but the vast difference in level of debate among our three candidates as opposed to the 4th grade level vitriol among the Republicans (well, Rand is maybe at 11th grade) advances our country as a whole.

Any of them would be better than the Clown Car occupants, though Hillary would be similarly corporatist--she'd just be more liberal on non-economic social issues, which is necessary but insufficient.

And I'd to hear more about O'Malley's reforms of the healthcare system in Maryland. Apparently their results to date are very promising.

Every time they articulate their positions they help bring our country back from this dangerous protofascist abyss. I look forward to O'Malley continuing to serve in some sort of public office, including possibly the White House at some point in the 2020s.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

37. Hillary wanted to run unopposed....

Some folks get the idea that anyone running against her is being disloyal.

[bullwinkle428]

38. Pathetic to think that he even might be omitted from debating, given

the air time the clowns on the other side (who have absolutely ZERO chance of winning) are receiving.

[MineralMan]

39. Of course he should be on stage.

As long as he's a declared candidate for the Democratic Convention, he should participate in the debates. We are not Republicans. We are Democrats.

I fully support his participation in all debates.

[fbc]

46. Do you support Vermin Supreme's right to be in the debate?

He's a declared Democratic candidate too. There are somewhere between 50-100 declared candidates.

[MineralMan]

49. Does he want to be in the debate?

I have no idea, but I suspect his candidacy is satirical in nature, really.

If he's serious, why not? I don't care. I do hope he wears his boot hat, though, if he does show up.

[stone space]

40. O'Malley's voice on some issues has moved the whole field to the left.

It is far too important, in my mind, to exclude and be silenced, regardless of which candidate one prefers.

[elleng]

42. He HAS moved the field to the left,

which is likely one reason dnc/dws have done what they can to minimize him.

[demwing]

43. Let the man speak

fuck the NBC rules, democracy is more important

[fbc]

44. I disagree. He's had his time.

He's gotten to pretend he's an actual viable candidate for several debates now. He's not.

There are only two candidates in this race. If it was a crowded field like on the other side of the aisle, then his small numbers would be more significant, but that is not the case. If he can't get more than 5% in a three person race then he's not a legitimate candidate. He's a nothing more than a distraction at this point, taking time away from the two legitimate candidates. Granted, he's not much of a distraction, but a distraction nonetheless.

[stonecutter357]

45. he should be there.

[bluestateguy]

50. I support including him in the debates--for now

But if he only gets less than %5 in Iowa and New Hampshire, then--if he hasn't dropped out-- he needs to be taken off the stage.

[stone space]

53. No reason to exclude him even then.

I'm reminded how quickly the only two candidates supporting marriage equality were not allowed to participate in Democratic Debates in 2007 even before the Iowa Caucus.

Voices for full marriage equality were totally absent from the Democratic debates in 2008 as a result, this despite the fact that Iowa's first legal Gay Marriage had occurred earlier that fall in the middle of the campaign leading up to the Iowa Caucus.

In effect, one entire side of the debate over marriage equality was shut out of the debates.

[Gothmog]

51. I also think that MOM should participate in this debate

[one_voice]

52. K&R

[MeNMyVolt]

54. Hell yes. I rec'd earlier, kicking now.

[ProudToBeLiberal]

55. K&R!

[lunamagica]

58. K&R. Of course he should be included. eom

[eridani]

59. Absofuckinglutely!!

He adds a lot to the discussion.