Give It Up, Hill

http://www.slate.com/id/2187558/

If I were Senator Hillary Clinton at this juncture in the marathon, I would strongly consider the manner in which it would take to win the nomination and whether winning in such a fashion is truly worth it. The term ‘Pyrrhic Victory’ is constantly being bandied about in the so-called punditocracy, but I am alluding to the moral argument at hand. It is futile to ask the question if Mrs. Clinton has a problem winning at any cost, for her actions and harsh words speak considerably louder than, um, words.

President Clinton has a great deal of gall preaching in Kentucky that Senator Obama is intentionally disenfranchising voters in Florida and Michigan for his own self-serving purposes. This is obviously a case of the Bubba calling the kettle black, if you will, as Hillary would certainly not aim to serve anyone other than the voters. The delegates, both pledged and super, are apparently an entirely different story. The Clinton campaign is apparently operating under the assessment that the term “pledged delegates“ is something of a misnomer and in classical Clintonian philosophy, no delegate is truly committed until s/he has actually voted at the convention. This point will likely prove to be moot as the Democratic Party Bosses (e.g. Harry “It Will Be Done” Reid) are starting to pull out the stops in order to get the super delegates to perhaps have a straw poll of sorts to determine the presumptive nominee. A point made by Rachel Maddow is that while this presumptive nominee will go forward as such, there is always the safety net of the Democratic Convention in August if the nominee proves toxic.