Senator Clinton has been playing the “every vote should count card,” campaigning to have the delegates from Michigan and Florida awarded based on the unofficial primaries held there. It looks good on the evening news, both for its emotional appeal and its strategic significance. Her efforts have helped to sustain her campaign thus far and made it seem like she still had a chance to pull ahead. However, now that it seems the delegates from Michigan and Florida aren’t going to be awarded to her, she’s changed her rhetoric.
In the past few days, Senator Clinton has repeatedly claimed that delegates pledged based on vote totals do not have to be awarded based on the votes. Or in other words, delegates are not required to abide by the election results. What?! The statement may be true,and this may be the theory behind speculations on a Gore nomination, but lets get this straight. Hillary Clinton isn’t talking about Al Gore resolving the candidate crisis. She’s not stating facts about the electoral process to help educate the populace. She’s talking about having delegates awarded to her against the popular vote.
“We talk a lot about so-called pledged delegates, but every delegate is expected to exercise independent judgment,” Clinton said.
Are these the words of someone who’s determined to be the next President or are they a sign of desperation?
Filed under: Democrats, Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Politics | Tagged: Florida, michigan, Voting, voting rights
From serial lying, to racism, to extortion: Hilary is not merely running to become the Dem’s nominee, she is testing to see if you’re blind enough to let her pathologies run your country. It’s like a game of Dare: Catch me as what I am if you can. If you’re too stupid to see what I am, you deserve me determining your future. Wake up, everyone!
Of course, Obama today indicated that the Selma march was how he was brought into the world… four years before the Selma march.
This just reflects the fact that both parties have names that now deceive more than they illuminate. It’s been pretty obvious that since Nixon, the Republicans have harbored a seething hatred of our republican form of government.
Clinton’s attitudes about the delegates pledged though voting, as well as the very concept of “superdelegates”, designed to prevent the foolish party members from nominating the “wrong” candidate, indicate that the Democrats aren’t all that keen on democracy.
Etra is really on to something, and Lamont is a genius, but to answer Ryan’s question: H is desperate.
Etra,
“From serial lying, to racism, to extortion: Hilary is not merely running to become the Dem’s nominee, she is testing to see if you’re blind enough to let her pathologies run your country. It’s like a game of Dare: Catch me as what I am if you can. If you’re too stupid to see what I am, you deserve me determining your future. Wake up, everyone!”
I totally agree with you.