Hillary is fully entitled to count every vote cast for her, whether or not those votes have any bearing on the 2008 Democratic primary. She can count her votes from her Senatorial campaign, she can count votes from when she ran for student government in middle school. She can count votes that exist nowhere outside of her own head; freedom of speech, that great American right, extends to 'freedom to count'.

When it comes to tallying up the score for the Democratic nomination, however, you have to follow the DNC's rules. LeBron James can't count baskets if the NBA doesn't allow them; Tom Brady can't count touchdowns that the NFL doesn't approve. And, whether she likes it or not, Hillary can't just ignore Obama's caucus victories any more than she can spurn the DNC's (functionally meaningless) decision to count half of the MI and FL delegates.

She is, however, free to confabulate twisted edifices of tortured logic to justify her conviction that she's the one that the Democrats want to lead them. We'd just appreciate it if she'd keep it down a little while we get on with supporting the guy we actually picked.