Clinton: All The Way to Denver
Josh Marshall has been analysing Hillary's comment that, "I have no intention of stopping until we finish what we started and until we see what happens in the next 10 contests and until we resolve Florida and Michigan. And if we don't resolve it, we'll resolve it at the convention -- that's what credentials committees are for."
He seems to think that Hillary's next move is revealed in that last phrase:By saying she'll continue through the remaining ten contests, regardless of the outcome, and implicitly, I take it, regardless of any superdelegate declarations over the next two months, Sen. Clinton is saying it's no longer about pledged delegates, or superdelegates or popular votes. It's about Florida and Michigan. Period.
I find this simply bizarre. Hillary herself has already conceded that the votes from Michigan and Florida will not count."It's clear, this election they're having is not going to count for anything," Clinton said Thursday during an interview on New Hampshire Public Radio's call-in program, "The Exchange." "But I just personally did not want to set up a situation where the Republicans are going to be campaigning between now and whenever, and then after the nomination, we have to go in and repair the damage to be ready to win Michigan in 2008."
Speaking in the first primary state, Clinton said she understands concerns about her refusal.She said at the time that she understood people being concerned about her refusal to take her name off the ballot and that it was only on there to counter the Republican's, who would be campaigning there. Now, she does a complete about turn, and announces that it is imperative that these votes be counted.
Indeed, now she's saying that this is the most important thing to be decided.
This goes beyond saying and doing anything to win, this is simply two faced and hypocritical. It's no wonder her approval rating is going through the floor.
I wonder if this kind of behaviour accounts for this:
Barack Obama has extended his lead over Hillary Clinton among Democrats nationally to 52% to 42%, the third consecutive Gallup Poll Daily tracking report in which he has held a statistically significant lead, and Obama's largest lead of the year so far.Hillary sometimes acts as if no-one is watching her as she reverses promises which she has previously made and decides that the importance of certain things changes according to whether or not it improves her chance of her gaining the prize.
It's been an astonishing spectacle to witness her and her supporters telling us which states matter and which voters are important and unimportant. The short answer is that the people who vote for her matter and the rest don't.
Simply astonishing.
Click title for Josh Marshall's article.
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