# Bill Clinton Compares Florida Situation to 2000 Vote Count

[babylonsister]

WHAAAAA! :cry:


Bill Clinton expands on FL, MI
Posted: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:38 PM by Mark Murray
Filed Under: 2008, Clinton

From NBC/NJ's Matthew E. Berger


MISSOULA, MT -- Bill Clinton today made an expanded and direct argument for seating Florida and Michigan delegates, suggesting his wife is being punished and arguing that Obama's campaign opposed a re-vote.

“I never thought it would be the Democratic Party that didn’t want to count votes in Florida,” he said at a rally at the University of Montana. “I thought that was a Republican strategy -- or strategery as the case may be. And I just ask you all this, do you really believe Florida would be getting this kind of treatment if the vote had turned out the other way?”

For more than six minutes, Clinton went through the timeline of how both states lost their delegates, and who was to blame. While he has made the case before, he placed new emphasis on it today, as it becomes clearer that seating the delegates from both states is one of the few remaining options to help Hillary Clinton defeat Obama.

“Hillary offered a revote in Michigan; we offered a revote in Florida,” Clinton said. “In both cases, the other campaign said, ‘Nope, no re-vote, we will just see what to do when this thing is over.’ Why would we put Michigan at risk and pretend that these people didn't show up and pretend that somehow she is responsible and the voters themselves are responsible and she should be punished for what intermediaries did?”

more...

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/14/1020792.aspx

[nichomachus]

1. Continuing the Clinton meme

that Barack Obama is George Bush

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5952385&mesg_id=5952385

CLEAR FORK, W.Va. - Hillary Rodham Clinton compared her underdog quest for the White House yesterday to John F. Kennedy's 1960 campaign - while her top strategist likened Barack Obama's sky-high confidence to George W. Bush's infamous "Mission Accomplished" declaration.

[madfloridian]

2. Sounds like he accused Dean of favoritism.

"And I just ask you all this, do you really believe Florida would be getting this kind of treatment if the vote had turned out the other way?”