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Hillary Clinton, suggesting that even pledged delegates awarded to Barack Obama should vote for her at the convention:

“There is no such thing as a pledged delegate… The whole point is for delegates, however they are chosen, to really ask themselves who would be the best president and who would be our best nominee against Sen. [John] McCain.”

If this isn’t making a mockery of the democratic process (and big-D Democratic process), I don’t know what is. Deplorable.

Sidebar: I love how Clinton is constantly going on and on about how people in Michigan and Florida are being “disenfranchised” because their pledged delegates won’t count at the convention yet she undermines the whole concept of pledged delegates by saying that they shouldn’t be tied to the popular vote.

(Although it is technically true that pledged delegates aren’t held by party rules to vote for the candidate who got the most votes in their Congressional District, it has only happened a few times in history that they have voted for somebody else. When that happens– and it hasn’t happened in decades– they are generally regarded as dishonorable traitors who subvert democracy. I am blanking on the name of what traitor delegates are called but there’s actually a term for them and you could count the number of times it’s happened on one hand…).

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