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It's Official: Hillary Clinton Has Cheated
Now that the Democratic Party's rules committee has given both Florida and Michigan
half of their delegate votes at the convention, I can now comfortably
say that Hillary Clinton has done a great job of trying to cheat her
way to a win. Of course, she's going to lose, but she still cheated.
She's insisted since February - when it became more apparent that she'd
lose - that Florida and especially Michigan should count in full. Alas,
that's not what she originally said or promised. And had she been far
ahead of Obama by the end of February, I'm going to venture a guess and
say she'd be mum on the whole issue.
Before any primaries were held, all the Democratic candidates, including Clinton, signed this letter stating that no candidate
shall not campaign or participate in any state which schedules a presidentialHillary
election primary or caucus before Feb. 5, 2008, except for the states of Iowa,
Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina, as “campaigning” is defined by
rules and regulations of the DNC.
Clinton indeed signed this document. I've seen it myself on MSNBC. For
those who don't believe it, Clinton's own Web site still has her pledge posted in her press release section.
We believe Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina play a unique and special role in the nominating process.So
And we believe the DNC’s rules and its calendar provide the necessary structure to respect and honor that role.
Thus, we will be signing the pledge to adhere to the DNC approved nominating calendar.
basically what we have here is someone who promised not to campaign in
a place where she campaigned and has been crying foul because the DNC
hasn't been letting her get away with it - but now it kind of is.
That's called cheating.
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