Re: hillary clinton's run for president
by
spackle
06/03/2008, 10:32 PM
She does if you include FL and MI (and assume nobody in MI wanted Obama, which seems unlikely) and decide that the caucus states represent no votes. All this rah rah about respecting the MI/FL voters is meaningless - the states' parties broke the rules knowing the penalties, it's their fault, not Obama or the DNC's fault, that they jeopardized their delegates. They wanted to make their voters more important than those of others by moving the primary forward, and they are paying the price.
As someone who has been eager to vote for either candidate throughout, I fervently hope the Hillary supporters can understand that the MI/FL thing was unfortunate, but it was the first time I thought "Hillary is actively hurting the party's chances now." She has hurt Obama in two important states by trying to change rules of the game she herself had signed on to and trying to paint herself as championing a rigged voting process as the will of the people.
This election is too important hand to McCain based on things that don't matter, and Obama and Hillary's actual policy differences are small. I hope Hillary supporters will realize this by the election.