Yup, Hillary is in fact playing hardball. Not a surprise, but still disappointing. Not only does Clinton want the Florida and Michigan primary results to be counted, it sounds like she and her people are starting to say that the results should be counted as they stand.
Hey, I’m all for every vote counting. Really I am. Hillary says:
1.7 million Floridians turned out to vote. They clearly believed their votes would count. And I think there has to be a way to make them count.
And I agree. My problem is that so many others who were quite explicitly told that their votes would not count may have, very sensibly, decided to stay home. What about their votes? I think that if we want to seat the Florida delegation, and we should want to seat the Florida delegation, we really need to have another primary or caucus. Doubly so for Michigan, where millions who wanted to vote for Obama didn’t even have the opportunity to do so. What about their votes?
Finally, Hillary just needs to admit that if they hold another election in Michigan, one that is not, you know, a banana republic style one-candidate ballot, she is still going to be behind Obama in both the popular vote and in the pledged delegate count. Her only chance to win the nomination will still remain convincing superdelegates to go against the clear will of the voters.
Hillary, can you please, please stop being so, I don’t know, Clintonesque?
Hey man,
I agree with you. But…. “Hillary, can you please, please stop being so, I don’t know, Clintonesque?”
Dude, a fish has gotta swim, you know, and a Clinton has to play hardball. While I am not a Clinton hater from way back, I have finally decided that they were mostly right – the Clintons are the kind of people who simply cannot see the difference between “good for them” and “good for the country.” She and Bill embody the “we had to destroy the village in order to save it” mentality, and will do their best to drag the Democratic party down with them….
Without someone ready and able to enforce any given rule, rules are not rules at all. They become merely guidelines. As long as no one can keep Hillary from breaking the rules, she effectively can do so. The same has been true thus far of George W. “I’m king” Bush. As long as no one is ready to go after those who break the law or break rules, we don’t really have them or we have them only for some people but not others.