Harold Ickes Still Crazy

Harold Ickes, Senior Adviser to Sen. Clinton, is out of his mind. Today Ickes asserted that Sen. Obama should receive 0 delegates out of Michigan since his name was not on the ballot. Of course, it is common knowledge that Obama supporters in Michigan had urged voters to cast their ballots for "uncommitted." In addition, it is indisputable that a great many voters did not cast ballots having been told that their candidate would not be on the ballot and, even if he were, that their votes would not count.

"The views of the voters in the Michigan primary and in the Florida primary [should] be respected and be reflected in terms of the allocation of delegates," Ickes said. "It is presumptuous to assume that each and every one of those delegates is an Obama supporter. That will be up to those individual delegates to make those decisions."

While the Clinton campaign's desperation is understandable, Ickes's proposal would have the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee jump headfirst off the deep end into an empty pool.