The Clinton position is so ridiculous that it defies any norms of decency. The Clinton mafia literally wants to hold up the Obama nomination over 2 votes. You don't believe me? Listen to Clinton henchman, Howard Wolfson, make that very argument. We know what this is about. Bill and Hillary are fighting not on principle but opportunism. They want to destroy the Democrats chances of winning in the Fall so that Hillary can run in 2012. Why are so many of us unable or unwilling to see that:
WALLACE: She wanted 73 delegates. She got 69. That's a difference of four. And since they're only getting half votes, it's a difference of two votes.
You're telling me that she's going to keep this race open for three months over two votes in Michigan?
WOLFSON: Well, let's talk about what happened yesterday[...]
WALLACE: I understand. But we're talking about four delegates. She wanted 73. She believed she got 73. She got 69, in fact, from the rules committee. That's four delegates and two votes.
WOLFSON: Well, there's a principle at stake here, and it's a principle that is the bedrock principle...
WALLACE: And you're going to keep the whole Democratic fight going on for three months over two votes.
WOLFSON: It's not over two votes. It's over a principle. It's two votes that were taken away from us, and it's 55 votes that were given to Senator Obama that should have been uncommitted. But there's a principle at stake here.
Senator Clinton hasn't made a decision about whether to appeal this or not. She said she reserves the right to do that, and we do reserve the right, because if the Democratic Party doesn't stand for fairly apportioning votes that were cast in a primary, what's to prevent the next set of folks from taking more delegates away from a candidate?
WALLACE: I understand all the arguments that you've made about popular vote, about electability, about the kinds of states she's won in.
If you don't persuade the party, if you don't persuade the superdelegates, and Obama reaches that magic number of 2,118 Tuesday night, Wednesday morning, will she either suspend or end her campaign?
WOLFSON: We're going to be working hard to make sure that doesn't happen.
WALLACE: But if it does happen.
WOLFSON: We're going to be making sure — we're going to work hard to make sure that it doesn't.
WALLACE: Are you leaving open the possibility that even if he reaches the magic number she won't end her campaign?
WOLFSON: I'm not going to accept the premise of the question.
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