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"It's clear this election they're having isn't going to count for anything."
In case you hadn't heard, this was Hillary Clinton's response when asked about the Michigan primary early on in the process. A time when she felt very secure on her way to her deserved presidency.
It is a fair, reasonable, and just statement of the situation. A position that was agreed to by all candidates before the primaries began.
But since then, Hillary has not sounded so reasonable. Now she is adamant that votes cast in an election that she agreed would not count, be counted. She says she is concerned that "all voters be heard".
She has also indicated that pledged delegates are free to vote for whoever they want, regardless of the vote in their district. And she is more than happy to take the votes of super delegates, even if they help her defeat a candidate who received more pledged delegates, because she is more electable.
How anyone can look at all this and not see someone willing to win at any cost is beyond me. She wants everyone to heard alright, as long as they are voting for her. The rest should be overturned by "right" thinking super delegates.
Can't get more elitist than that.
Comments (3)
Hillary Clinton = flip-flopping opportunist
It's very disappointing.
May 31, 2008 1:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
In response to an assertion by Harold Ickes' that the assignment of Michigan delegates must be a "fair reflection of the vote, Senator Levin just said: "It's hard to have a fair reflection of a primary that was flawed."
Good for Senator Levin (even though he is personally responsible for much of this mess). The bottom line is this: are we a democracy, or a banana republic? "Fairly reflecting" a primary in which there was only one name on the ballot is a travesty -- particularly when the one name in question is the person who said she didn't have to remove her name from the ballot because the election would not count.
May 31, 2008 2:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not sure about the bananas, but we're not a democracy, and never have been. The US is a republic.
The difference is pretty simple: in a republic, people vote for proxy representatives - in other words, an elected sovereignty, like our political leadership. In a democracy, the people don't cede that decision making authority, and vote directly on the issues.
So if the US were actually a democracy, we wouldn't have all this election year fun :)
May 31, 2008 5:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
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