Reply #27: I notice you ignored my response to you regarding this point on another thread. I'll repost it. [View All]

[Romulox]

Contract drafting 101: Say what you mean.

"Participate" is ambiguous, and leaves reasonable observers to differ in its meaning.

If the pledge was meant to require the pledgees to remove their names from the Mi/Fla ballots, the drafters knew how to say so, in clear, unambiguous language. They chose not to. Which tends to negative the inference that this removal was central in the minds of the drafters of the pledge or the candidates who signed it.

PS: This "pledge" wasn't issued by the DNC, which makes a bit of a jumble of the argument that the DNC required Obama and Edwards to remove their names.