“Denver, Denver!”

My thanks to (clockwise from the top); Mark Penn, Bill Clinton, Harold Ickes, Terry Mcauliffe, and Lanny Davis…

Inspiration:

• Insane Clinton Dead-Enders Celebrate Glorious Puerto Rico Victory
• Clinton camp converging on New York Tuesday, and shedding staff
• More Coverage of the DNC RBC Meeting!
• Hillary: my part in her downfall

…and furthermore:

I admit I really don’t care at all about the DNC R&B meeting today. There’s no grand principle at stake here and I have no interest in listening to people pretend that there is. The primary system is a weird hybrid of things far removed any concept of “one person one vote.” And it isn’t really a public election the way, say, voting for your Congressman is an election. It’s a contest whereby members of a club choose the leader of that club, who then goes on to participate in a real election.

It isn’t important that muckety mucks from Florida and Michigan get to go to the big party in Denver. The only real issue is if what’s decided today impacts the ultimate outcome – who becomes the leader of the club – and whether that’s seen as legitimate by both sides. Personally I think changing the rules midgame is not the way to do things, though if it doesn’t impact the outcome it doesn’t really matter, but I guess some people differ on that.

• Toxic
• The Nightmare Ticket Is Dead
• Bill Clinton: Florida, Michigan Penalty “Appropriate”

May 22, 2008
Paterson Sees ‘Desperation’ By Clinton, Disagrees On Florida And Michigan

Gov. David Paterson, who is right now being interviewed by WAMC’s Alan Chartock and taking calls from listeners on “Vox Pop,” just disagreed sharply with his presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, on her last-ditch efforts to seat the Florida and Michigan delegations.

While he stressed that he continues to support Clinton and will do so until “she makes a different determination,” Paterson, a superdelegate, said he doesn’t believe the DNC should change the rules after the fact on Florida and Michigan and added that he’s not buying her claims about leading the popular vote if the ballots cast in those states were counted.

First Hillary is on one side of an issue, then the other–then Bill goes and does the same damn thing. I hope she’s not confused about why Obama’s going to reject her angling for the VP spot. Even a blind man can see what’s going on here…literally.

“…Archieee Biilll you were right, that Moveon is nothing but a bunch of Communist sympathizers!”