I’ve never been to Las Vegas. But if I understand how the systems there work, big spenders can find Vegas hotels and casinos that will “comp” them with free lodging — perhaps meals, too? — with the understanding they’ll lay down their gambling money, etc., at that hotel/casino. I THINK that’s how it works, but I don’t know.
It would be sort of gaming the system if you took such a nice comp, then quietly walked across the street and laid your money down on someone else’s table, right?
Isn’t Hillary Clinton trying to pull a similar game on the Democratic Party with her plans to be in Florida Tuesday evening to thank all of her supporters there? You’ll probably remember that Michigan and Florida have formally lost their delegates to the Democratic National Convention for bucking the system and scheduling their party primaries early. Because of that, all the Democratic candidates have pledge NOT to campaign in those states.
So isn’t Hillary’s Tuesday evening visit violating the spirit of that pledge, if not the letter?
Frankly, I think Hillary and Bill Clinton together are starting to show everything just short of public panic at her failure to win big in the primaries, especially in light of her recent loss to Obama in S.C., and the Kennedy endorsements of Obama.
Come on, Hillary, quit gaming the system. Come on, Bill, we all know you’d love to see Hillary in the White House — and what husband would not support his wife? — but you are looking a lot like some of your lust for the Oval Office is clouding your judgment, too.
Ah, well, what do I know? I’m just a guy who reads the papers. Uh, and I suppose that possibility of drafting Al Gore for the Democratic presidential nomination is pretty remote now, eh?
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