Clinton: I've crossed commander-in-chief threshold

Her behaviour is getting worse with every hour that passes:

In a Cabinet-style setting, surrounded by retired military leaders, Sen. Hillary Clinton said the public should ask whether Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama has met the criteria needed to become the nation’s commander in chief.

“I think that since we now know Sen. (John) McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center in this election. We all know that. And I think it’s imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the commander-in-chief threshold,” the New York senator told reporters crowded into an infant’s bedroom-sized hotel conference room in Washington.

“I believe that I’ve done that. Certainly, Sen. McCain has done that and you’ll have to ask Sen. Obama with respect to his candidacy,” she said.

Calling McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee a good friend and a “distinguished man with a great history of service to our country,” Clinton said, “Both of us will be on that stage having crossed that threshold. That is a critical criterion for the next Democratic nominee to deal with.”

Someone seriously needs to take her aside and tell her to f@cking stop it. She's supposed to want the Democrats to win the next election whether or not she's the bloody nominee.

At the moment she's behaving like, if she can't be the nominee, she wants the Presidency to go to McCain. She even repeated her recent favourite put down:

She said she and McCain had traveled to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan together as she repeated a line that surfaced from the campaign trail. She and McCain “bring a lifetime of experience to the campaign, Clinton said, while “Sen. Obama will bring a speech he gave in 2002,” stating his opposition to the Iraq war as an Illinois state senator.

And returning to her "the votes of Florida have to count because they voted for me" theme:

“I think it would be a grave disservice to the voters of Florida and Michigan to adopt any process that would disenfranchise anyone therefore I am still committed to seating their delegations and I know they’re working with the Democratic Party to determine how best to proceed,” she said.

“But it is striking that we had two elections where the votes in Florida were of great importance. 1.7 million Floridians turned out to vote. They clearly believe that there votes would count and I think there has to be a way to make them count,” she said.

I've made the point before that it's a bit rich for Hillary to act as if she's concerned about the disenfranchising of Floridian voters when she's made it clear that she thinks millions of voters opinions should be disenfranchised according to the whim of a Super Delegate, however, the assumption that gets me here is that she makes no account for the fact that many Floridians might have not gone to the polls precisely because they knew that their votes weren't to be counted. It's a bit much to insist that votes in an election - in which everyone was told in advance they wouldn't count - must now be counted.

I honestly don't think I've ever seen a candidate behave this badly. Shocking. Simply shocking.

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Tags: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, US election 2008, Democratic presidential nominee