In honor of the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting to determine whether the rules and bylaws actually, you know, mean anything or are, as pirates say in Disney movies, really more of a guideline, lowly Gleaner will take this opportunity to link to the famous audio clip (via Jabberwonk) from the person vying to be the first woman president whose husband was president first, in which the most active of America's former first ladies was recorded having the following exchange:
New Hampshire Public Radio's Laura Knoy: "So, if you value the DNC calendar, why not just pull out of Michigan? Why not just say, Hey Michigan, I'm off the ballot?"
Hillary Clinton: "Well, you know, It's clear, this election they're having is not going to count for anything."
Now of course the erstwhile inevitable and once-mighty Borg is contending that not counting Michigan's votes would undo every accomplishment won over the last 50 years by the civil rights movement at home and the spread of democracy abroad. Combined.
Is she shamelessy and cynically flip-flopping because, as her harshest critics contend, she will simply say or do anything to advance her own personal ambitions and thirst for power, no matter what the consequences to her party, her country or the people of the entire world, even it if means Obama's defeat in the general election and a continuation of catastrophic and pernicious Bush policies?
Is she that consumed with her own importance, that obsessed with her own sense of entitlement, that unhinged?
To quote another famous statement from the former first lady — a statement that perhaps more than any other summed up exactly what her her long and magnificent quest for the presidency was all about — not "as far as I know."






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