Here's another gem from a master of spin and damage-control. "Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton bluntly challenged Barack Obama to agree to new primaries in Michigan and Florida on Wednesday and said it was "wrong, and frankly un-American" not to have the two delegations seated at the Democratic National Convention."
"The proposal offers a rerun for the state but not for all the voters," Bob Bauer, Obama's election lawyer, wrote in a memo during the day. He warned of the possibility of numerous legal challenges and embarrassment to the party.
Of course, Clinton is challenging Obama to paint him into a corner, and his lack of an answer thus far is a good way to parry the Clinton maneuver. Not that Obama doesn't have his own challenges.
Clinton won the renegade primaries in both states, although all the candidates had pledged not to campaign in either and Obama removed his name from the Michigan ballot. "When others made the decision to remove their names from the ballot I didn't because I believe your voices should count," she said. "And that's why I've been saying we need to either count the votes that have already been cast in Michigan or Florida or have new full and fair elections."
Politics ain't pretty.
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