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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Clinton and Mugabe

Mary L. Dudziak

Hilary Clinton has compared the Democratic Party’s failure to count the Florida and Michigan Democratic primary votes to the election crisis in Zimbabwe. There may be one similarity, but it is not the one Clinton claims.

CBS News reports that the candidate complained that in Michigan and Florida,
"people go through the motions of an election only to have them discarded and disregarded." "We’re seeing that right now in Zimbabwe," Clinton explained. "Tragically, an election was held, the president lost, they refused to abide by the will of the people," Clinton told the crowd of senior citizens at a retirement community in south Florida. "So we can never take for granted our precious right to vote."
There are so many obvious differences between the Florida and Michigan Democratic primaries and the Zimbabwe election crisis that it is difficult to know where to begin. But perhaps there is one similarity: in Zimbabwe, a losing candidate, incumbent Robert Mugabe, seeing his impending defeat, has worked to change an outcome produced under pre-existing rules. In arguing that the Democratic party should abandon its rules post-hoc – rules Clinton herself agreed to before the voting – she makes a parallel move.

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Posted 7:28 PM by Mary L. Dudziak [link]



Comments:

Congratulations. You have managed to make a sillier point than the one Clinton did.
# posted by Blogger MLS : 7:44 PM

 

The Clintons never did have much of a grasp of history. All Hillary needed to do was wave the "bloody short" of the 2000 Florida election contest and tweak Obama with the shibboleth of "count every vote!"
# posted by Blogger Bart DePalma : 11:12 PM

 

Coincidentally while in the loo this morning I browsed through a National Geographic, November 1981 issue (Vol. 160, No. 5) left behind by our children featuring "After Rhodesia, Zimbabwe" at page 616, which provides background for Mary's post. Quite a lot has happened since 1981.
# posted by Blogger Shag from Brookline : 8:06 AM

 

MLS, she found a genuine point of comparison -- a rhetorically effective one, no less -- and all you can do is call her "silly" with no explanation?

Better trolls, please.
# posted by Blogger Anderson : 9:04 AM

 

Anderson- is it really necessary to explain why I think it is silly to equate Clinton with a brutal dictator who is using violence to overturn an election? Even if one thinks that Clinton has no legitimate claim as to why she should be the nominee, she is only guilty of trying to persuade people with ridiculous arguments. You don't think that it is silly to compare her to Mugabe? Really?
# posted by Blogger MLS : 1:56 PM

 

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Books by Balkinization Bloggers

The Laws of Change

Jack M. Balkin, The Laws of Change: I Ching and the Philosophy of Life (2d Edition, Sybil Creek Press 2009)

Beyond The Formalist/Realist Divide

Brian Z. Tamanaha, Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide: The Role of Politics in Judging (Princeton University Press 2009)

A Right to Discriminate?

Andrew Koppelman and Tobias Barrington Wolff, A Right to Discriminate?: How the Case of Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale Warped the Law of Free Association (Yale University Press 2009)

The The Constitution in 2020

Jack M. Balkin and Reva B. Siegel, The Constitution in 2020 (Oxford University Press 2009)

The Democracy Index

Heather K. Gerken, The Democracy Index: Why Our Election System Is Failing and How to Fix It (Princeton University Press 2009)

Exporting American Dreams

Mary Dudziak, Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey (Oxford University Press 2008)

Copyright's Paradox

Neil Netanel, Copyright's Paradox (Oxford Univ. Press 2008)

Legal Ethics and Human Dignity

David Luban, Legal Ethics and Human Dignity (Cambridge Univ. Press 2007)

Super Crunchers

Ian Ayres, Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way to be Smart (Bantam 2007)

Cybercrime

Jack M. Balkin, James Grimmelmann, Eddan Katz, Nimrod Kozlovski, Shlomit Wagman and Tal Zarsky, eds., Cybercrime: Digital Cops in a Networked Environment (N.Y.U. Press 2007)

State of Play

Jack M. Balkin and Beth Simone Noveck, The State of Play: Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds (N.Y.U. Press 2006)

Same Sex, Different States

Andrew Koppelman, Same Sex, Different States: When Same-Sex Marriages Cross State Lines (Yale University Press 2006)

Law as a Means to an End

Brian Tamanaha, Law as a Means to an End (Cambridge University Press 2006)

Our Undemocratic Constitution

Sanford Levinson, Our Undemocratic Constitution (Oxford University Press 2006)

Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil

Mark Graber, Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil (Cambridge University Press 2006)

What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said

Jack M. Balkin, ed., What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said (N.Y.U. Press 2005)

Torture: A Collection

Sanford Levinson, ed., Torture: A Collection (Oxford University Press 2004)



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