What is fair about the nominating process?
Judging from complaints by her minions, Hillary Clinton considers it unfair that Barack Obama has wafted close to the pinnacle of politics on an updraft from the nationwide swoon of millions of Democrats and much of the media. But disquisitions on fairness are unpersuasive coming from someone whose marriage enabled her to treat the Senate as an entry-level electoral office (only 12 of today’s senators have been elected to no other office) and a steppingstone to the presidency. The four-letter F word that is central to Democrats’ rhetoric — “fair” — is being bandied about. Clinton would be ahead in the delegate count if Obama had not won about twice as many delegates as she in caucuses, so Clinton implies that it is not quite fair to consider delegates accumulated in caucuses as significant as those won in primaries. Obama says it would not be fair for “superdelegates,” or delegates chosen by Michigan’s and Florida’s renegade primaries, to decide the nomination. Clinton has a small piec
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