Clinton backs rule breakers when it benefits her

Senator Hillary Clinton on Wednesday warned that millions of people in Florida and Michigan "are in danger of being excluded from our democratic process" if their votes are not counted.

Notice how she presents this situation as a true injustice to millions of Americans? The Democratic National Convention stripped Florida and Michigan of their delegates back in January because they illegally held their primaries early. Michigan and Florida both knew they would lose their delegates but went through with the primaries anyway.

When they broke the DNC rules, she said nothing, when they discovered they will lose their delegates, she said nothing, when she learned that by them losing their delegates she would fall far behind Obama in their race to be the democratic nominee, she is now all over it.

This illustrates her motivation for anything she does now and will do if elected. It is not for the common good that she is fighting, it is for her own good. These states broke the rules knowing full well the consequences and now she is lobbying for them to not have to suffer the consequences, because it will benefit her. She is not being altruistic here. She is fully committed to the belief that rules do not have to be followed.

How do you suppose she would handle this if it was Obama who would benefit by having the DNC decision overturned?

What happens, if while president, she is confronted a with situation in which a corporation, a state or a foreign government decides they don’t want to play by the rules and by shunning those rules she will benefit personally but harm will come to our country if they are not punished? She is giving us an insight into how she will react right here and now. Pay attention people.

Clinton didn’t even consider Florida important enough to campaign in when they held their early illegal primaries on January 29. But now that she sees how their delegates would benefit her, she wants them counted.

She wants the fact that rules were ignored to go away, and she wants to benefit from it.

Florida Governor Charlie Christ’s comment, "It's unconscionable to me that some party boss in Washington is not going to permit the people to be heard. That's not what America is all about, and it's wrong", is not well thought out. Both states knew the rules, and knew the consequences and forged ahead anyway. These are the facts. By allowing these states to break the rules and benefit from breaking those rules is not what America is all about. It is very conscionable that some ‘party boss in Washington’ is following the rules. Live with it.