Clinton Supporter Attacks "Exceedingly Unfair" Texas Caucus System

CNN:

Former HUD secretary and Hillary Clinton supporter Henry Cisneros excoriated Texas' arcane electoral process as "a great burden on voters" and said that losing the delegate count on Tuesday because of the state caucuses would be "exceedingly unfair."

Cisneros was speaking to a group of Clinton volunteers who had gathered on Saturday morning at Fox Tech High School to train for Tuesday evening's state caucuses, which follow a day of primary voting. One-third of the state's pledged delegates are allocated through the caucuses, while the rest are determined by the day's primary vote.

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Comments

[VOTER]

When Hillary assumed her Coronation would be a cinch, she didn't care about the Texas voting/caucus

mess.

NOW, she cares. :- /

[PTTY]

It was fair for Bill Clinton when he won Texas.

[Zhonni]

I am getting tired of the big-baby mentality of the Clinton campaign. I expected some of these kinds of mistakes/behaviours from the Obama camp. The Clinton camp that is full of whinning and rookie mistakes. So much for all that "experience"!

[olderdem]

More whining from the Clintons. I'm sure Texan Democrats designed the system for the sole purpose of defeating Hillary.

Can the Clintons please, please stop with the whining? Its shameful.

[Ork]

Everyone watch out, she wants to winne her way to the white house.. give way, quick quick..

[InfoGiant]

Hillary has an incredible knack for complaining about the system or wanting to change the rules AFTER she knows how the results will likely fall. Is someone who didn't know the election rules going into the game REALLY ready to lead on day one?

http://infogiant.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/election-prediction-for-texas-updated/

http://infogiant.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/texas-primary-caucus-an-explanation-for-the-curious/

http://infogiant.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/win-at-all-costs-why-hillary-is-bad-for-america-and-definitely-more-of-the-same/

[HowardRoarke]

So now she wants the electorate to choose, not some self-selected activists through a caucus?


Yet her only hope of getting the nomination relies on a bunch of self-selected party insiders (the superdelegates) overruling the electorate.


She's descended into Bush-logic at thsi point. Rules that favor her are good, ones that don't are unfair. Sheesh.

[nacilbuper]

alright kids. i'm gonna try and 'splain it to you one more time so that maybe you can get it through your thick skulls.

rules that work for clinton = good

rules that work for obama = bad

any questions?

[ebbtide]

the more they whine about "unfair" the more they look like losers.

[kanyingi]

Here we go again!

What a great whiny, mismanaged campaign we've run 'mrs president clinton'.

Thank you for allowing us to see how you plan on mismanaging our great nation and then whine about it when things go inevitably wrong.

[NoahVail]

No, we need a re-do. Let's give her those ghost delegates from Florida and Michigan, and certainly do not call on her first. Sheesh-- no wonder Bill went out trolling for Paula Jones and Monica Lewinski. I want to like her, and when Ken Starr was giving her hell I really felt sorry for her. Sorry does not cut it, though. Barack Obama has displayed all of the traits I find desirable in a POTUS, but Hillary and her "campaign of entitlement" is looking more and more like a loser.

[veracal]

It would only be unfair if she were the only candidate who had to abide by the rules. Note to Team Hillary - the rules are not unfair just because you didn't bother to develop an effective strategy.

[FogBelter]

Well, since Bill Clinton pardoned him in 2001, you'd think Henry would be willing to pull some weight for Hillary's campaign.

Henry Cisneros payments controversy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros_payments_controversy

[NoahVail]

Hillary, Henry-

Prepare to be overwhelmed. You cannot stop a Tsunami with a firewall. You are not ENTITLED to hold office. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fd-MVU4vtU

[winterfuknmute]

Fighting for the Soul of the DNC.
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20080317&s=berman

[personalpolitical]

Um...correct me if I'm wrong...but doesn't Obama have to compete in the exact same system? How is it unfair to Hillary exactly...? If it is burdensome to voters, isn't it burdensome to ALL voters, not just hers? I'm tired of this whining and blaming others, I'm tired of the excuses...first students in IA, then men in NH, then too many black people in SC, then its the evil media, then its the caucus system, waahh wwaaahhhhh!

I'm sick of it. Go away Hillary, you are an embarrassment to our party, and you only help McCain by not dropping out.

[NYC07]

My question is : Is this woman a member of the Democratic Party running for President of the United States ? I guess that if the answer is yes, my next question would be : Did her and are advisors just wake up from a coma? All of the ways that a state elects delegates in the Democratic Primaries and Caucuses have been in place of a long time . Why didn't they cry foul before. The real problem with the Clinton Campaign is that they had NO plan for what to do after Feb 5, any state that went to vote after that day they didn't care about because they felt they would have already won . Poor planning of the part of the Clintons should not be used to change the way things are done.

Bush : No plan after the fall of Saddam Hussain

Hillary : No plan after Feb 5

I guess great minds think alike !!!

[Ork]

Absolute fuckingly! Also, see hillary claims she has experience.. especially her white house experience tagging along with bill.. right, but by the same token, she has experience with two (not one but two) presidential campaigns but just see what a freaking mess her campaign is.. her ideas, execution and planning is a mess.. is that a taste of her 'experience by association' white house will be like????

[bronceye]

Hillary won the caucus votes here in Nevada, she didn't complain. She neither rejected nor denounced them. She didn't even repudiate them. In hillary speak-media bias, unfair voting=losing. She is just losing, that's all. Every day is a new Hillary and none of them are resonating. If she weren't a woman, she would have polled below Kucinich long ago. The sniveling only makes her look weaker, more inept and desperate. She is like a spoile rich kid who didn't get what she wanted from Santa. Several months ago, she was the presumptive nominee and complained zilch about media coverage. She had it and lost it. Insight, folks. She is nothing more than an argument for married couples that a woman can't be any worse. Irregardless of her sex, I think she would be much worse. After the hoopla of the first woman pres., what would be next?? I shudder at the sight of maternity pants(I have 8 children).