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By Moe Lane Posted in 2008 | First Cobra Civil War | hee | hee hee | hee hee hee — Comments (26) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

Guess who's not going gently into that good night?

That's right! Senator Hillary Clinton! She has a new website up! And it's not the website of a woman planning to just quit after the Texas primaries, either:

As more voters make their choice for the Democratic nomination, there is growing interest in the facts and myths about the race to reach 2208 delegate votes - the number required for a candidate to secure the nomination with Florida and Michigan included. The Obama campaign is claiming, without precedent or justification, that automatic delegates (commonly referred to as "super delegates") should switch to Sen. Obama en masse based on arbitrary metrics, with the aim of tilting the delegate balance in his favor. The fact is: no automatic delegate is required to cast a vote on the basis of anything other than his or her best judgment about who is the most qualified to be president.

Thank God I don't have a webcam. The manic glint in my eye would scare small dogs (although my son thinks it's the funniest thing ever, apparently).

Read on.

Jake Tapper, who does not approve of this argument (although, as Karl of Protein Wisdom notes, there actually is one, Senator Obama and his supporters aside), gives a bit of the warning:

The three chairs of the Democratic Convention Credentials Committee, which will decide this Michigan and Florida morass, all worked in the administration of Bill Clinton: Former Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman, Social Security Administration associate commissioner James Roosevelt Jr., and White House travel consultant Eliseo Roques-Arroyo, as noted yesterday by the Washington Times.

More and more, this reminds me of the Florida recount.

That's because he's on the inside, where he clearly considers there to be a good guy, and a bad girl. From the outside, it looks more like the First Cobra Civil War:

(Start around 8:24)

...and may they have joy of each other, right up to the convention, and spending all the while all that lovely money that they've been raking in up to this point*.

So good luck, Democrats. Hil's people: we can't wait to hear your explanation why your candidate is the choice of the people when she only got the nod via an end run at the convention**. Barry's: we're equally eager to watch you try to extract yourself from the Michigan seating problem without terminally aggravating an utterly Democratic-owned State with a 7.4% unemployment rating***. Both of you: read up on parliamentary procedure, because the first day's going be a doozy.

And that's assuming no actual rioting. Which I wouldn't wish on a nice city like Denver anyway.

Moe Lane

PS: One other point. It gets this far, having either one win will be fine, thanks.

*And if you're expecting Herself to drop out next month, ask yourself why you think that. No, I don't really care about your answer, but you should.

**Yes, yes, used to happen all the time. So did polio.

***What, you didn't think we noticed? Silly.