The Wash Post's report on the Clinton campaign's over reaction to The Fl & Mi Resolution:
"This motion will hijack -- hijack -- remove four delegates won by Hillary Clinton," said Harold Ickes, who oversees delegate operations for the Clinton campaign and is also a member of the Rules and Bylaws Committee. "This body of 30 individuals has decided that they're going to substitute their judgment for 600,000 voters."
Arguing that the Michigan compromise "is not a good way to start down the path of party unity," Ickes warned that Clinton had authorized him to note that she will "reserve her rights to take it to the credentials committee" later. Campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson later affirmed that Clinton will reserve her right to challenge the outcome.
Really? A difference of 4 measly delegates, when she needs 243 to win, is worth increasing the disunity and discord so evident in the Democratic Party right now (for example, Hillary supporters chanting "McCain" during yesterday's meeting)? Talk about a massive ego that is so narcissistic that she cannot see the bigger picture! I'm just hoping that after a little bit of time passes, and temperatures cool, that Hillary's campaign will not pursue such a destructive (to the party and herself) strategy that wont change anything anyway.
So what do you think? Vote in the poll ...
Btw, contrast her approach to Obama's where FirstRead has reported has that "Obama actually had the votes to get a 50-50 delegate split out of Michigan but ... decided to go with the 69-59 split to win a larger majority" and thereby be less divisive.
{12:45 UPDATE} The folks at 538.com make an important point about Michigan's vote:
Harold Ickes keeps shouting about 600,000 votes in Michigan being thrown out. But as I've pointed out before, the turnout situation in Michigan wasn't remotely normal. According to Jay Cost's spreadsheet, turnout in Michigan was equal to 24 percent of John Kerry's vote in 2004. However, the average in other states with open primaries was 79 percent. In other words, turnout was only about one-third as much as it should have been. The judgment of two-thirds of the voters in Michigan was essentially that the primary didn't matter and wasn't worth their time.