I am increasingly concerned about the confusion in this Democratic campaign between: a) Machiavellian tactics (used to justify spin and outright lies because, allegedly, "that is just the nature of politics"); and b) basic ethics.
1) Clinton spin says that the Michigan and Florida votes must count lest the voters be "disenfranchised." Nonsense. Adherence to basic ethics would acknowledge that Obama wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan; and, in Florida, it was the state legislature and a republican governor who disenfranchised the Florida voters, not the democratic party. It is a lack of ethics that permits Hillary to disavow her agreement to support the party decision.
2) Clinton spin dismisses the ethical significance, not only of the agreement she signed about Florida and Michigan, but also of outright lies about Bosnia, the woman who died in Ohio and, just yesterday, whether it was she or Obama who spoke against the war in Iraq first. Not to mention the Clinton camp failure to release 2007 tax returns, as promised, before the Pennsylvania primary. Does making a statement that they have an extension justify breaking their word?
Bottom line: After eight years of Bush/Cheney, do we want four to eight more years of decoding presidential pronouncements for truth? Is this the M.O. we want our children to learn as an example of how to conduct oneself in the world?
It is not John McCain who represents another Bush term -- although his fundamental flaw of wishful thinking could have catastrophic results. Rather, it is Billary who will give us a third Bush term, in terms of requiring us all to exhaust ourselves by fact checking because we cannot believe anything they say.