Other than BTD--why hasn't anyone pointed out that BO's road to the nomination by blocking FL and MI is the exact reason he may loose the GE?  I just don't get it, aren't there any Dems who want a fighter and someone who will, you know, win?  

I used to defend the argument that seating MI as is wasn't fair to BO b/c he took his name off.  But after he agreed to whatever the DNC said and then still refused the re-vote, I say, too bad.  He had two chances in MI, now we need to do what is best for the general.  

What I don't understand is why Hillary Clinton didn't protest the disenfranchisement of Florida and Michigan before the candidates agreed not to participate. Why did she sign that agreement at all? It was clearly not in her interest. If she'd protested early, she'd be in much better shape now, her opponents would have a much harder time painting her actions as a naked grab to fix the game in her favor, and there would have been a better chance of her actually succeeding in having Michigan and Florida delegates counted.

I can only think of two possibilities. On the one hand, maybe she just thought she had the election in the bag. Maybe she though she could win the nomination without those two states, and there was no point in raising a stink. Pride goeth before a fall.

The other possibility is she didn't believe the DNC penalty would stick. She assumed she'd get the delegates, even with Obama not on the ballot in one state, and was happy with the advantage of reaping the delegates without to campaign.

Self-interest makes him want to take credit for things he didn't do.

To listen to Plouffe, Hillary is killing the party, she has no chance to win, she's changing the rules every day, Bill Clinton has no business questioning anyone's patriotism, she's got to be hiding something in those tax returns, Obama is The One.  There was more, but you get the idea.

The simple fact is that she has earned the right to stay in and hope that she wins on first ballot (super delegates) or subsequent ballots.

So if we take on the notion of withdrawing 'for the good of the party' - the issue clearly is who is it that clarifies 'the good of the party'?

Perhaps Bill Clinton since he is the only living 2 term Democratic president.

Jimmy Carter?
Al Gore?
John Edwards?
MSNBC?

In the end, it has to make sense to her to withdraw.

For others to demand that she withdraw is partisan and insulting to her own personal judgment.

The events of the past few weeks have demonstrated that the process is fickle and can turn on a dime.

The prospects that she will win the next primary, Pennsylvania by a substantial margin look great.

It would seem that Hillary has fairly successfully scored points on the re-vote issue in spite of blocking a re-vote in Florida and saying months ago that the vote in Michigan wouldn't count....

It all makes sense to me now.  It is another one of those Clinton patterns!  Remember when they did not campaign hard enough for John Kerry, so that he would lose?  And did not campaign enough for Al Gore - or was it that they campaigned too much for him? - I can never keep the patterns straight.  Now if Obama loses, it will be the Clinton's fault.

And, unlike Republicans, I think people are basically good.

This whole idea of politicians (or any group) always placing self interests before anything else is a conservative talking point.  

The human race is far from perfect.  But there's a lot more good in us than we're given credit for.  

PA, W VA, and KY all look like hers without question.

NC and Ind will be close.  I read that Oregon will be close.

Reid says "Michigan and Florida delegates are going to be seated. They're going to be a part of the convention...they will be seated. They're big states. They represent 29 million people. We want to make sure their delegates are part of the convention that takes place in Denver."

And word tonight is that the Florida situation is going to the party Rules and Bylaws Committee for a decision within the next few weeks. "Leonard Joseph, Executive Director of the Florida Democratic party, assured the crowd of southwest Florida Democrats that Florida will count at the national party convention."