WTF is up with Hillary? This past weekend the DNC Rules and Bylaws committee met and voted to split the Florida and Michigan delegates between Clinton and Barack Obama , even though both states knew they were violating party rules by holding their primaries early, and therefore would forfeit those delegates.

But Hillary bitched and moaned enough that the DNC finally caved, sort of, allowing the delegates to be divided between the two front runners. Clinton should be happy, right? She got several delegates that by rule she absolutely should not have gotten. However, she’s still bitching and moaning through her surrogates. They claim that she didn’t get enough delegates from Michigan and now the’re threatening to take their fight to the convention.

No matter that even if she did receive the delegates she’s asking for that she’d still be far behind Obama in the overall count. No matter that her petty fight is really an attempt to either strong arm her way onto the ticket or set herself up for a 2012 run. No matter that she’s hurting the Democratic party’s chances of winning in November with this childish example of a campaign. She, apparently, only cares about one thing, herself. 

Ironically, this constant shifting of the goalposts on the part of the Clinton campaign is eerily similar to what we’ve seen from the Bush administration on Iraq. Whenever something goes poorly for either of them, they change the milestone, alter the endgame. What does she hope to gain with these tactics. Even if she were to secure the nomination, is she what the country really needs right now? Another divider? And this time one who not only divides among party lines, but within her own party?

Someone in Hillary’s campaign needs to grow a pair and have a “comin’ to Jesus” sit-down with her. Explain to her the damage she’s causing and the perception it’s creating. Because she may believe that she’s doing the right thing by continuing to fight, but that’s because the yes-men around her tell her so. For many others, the perception is that she’s simply selfish, and now maybe a bit unstable in her quest for power. And as the saying goes, perception is reality.