NANCY PELOSI “UNDEMOCRATIC", PRO CLINTON PAC FOUNDER SAYS

[USA Today]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's vow yesterday that she will "step in" and put an end to Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid if she has not dropped out on her own by June 3, 2008 is not sitting well with some Clinton supporters, USA Today reports. Specifically, Allida Black, a professor at George Washington University and co-founder of the WomenCount PAC, which wants Clinton to get the nominationation.

“I thought it was undemocratic," Black said about what Pelosi told The San Francisco Chronicle yesterday. Never in the history of our party have we precluded any candidate from going to the convention floor. ... I'm an elected delegate from the state of Virginia. ... She has no right as a leader of this party to say the party has to make a decision before the convention. That's what the convention was created to do. ... I don't want Nancy Pelosi telling me who my nominee is."

For her part, Pelosi had this to say to the Chronicle about WomenCount, which has in recent weeks bought full-page ads in USA TODAY and other newspapers to make its case that that Clinton should not be forced out of the race:

"God bless their enthusiasm. ... These women are fabulous, and I know many of them very well." But, while "we all want to see a woman president ... they want me to be the chair of the convention, who is neutral. And yet they want me to be for Hillary Clinton."

Eh, um, no Speaker Pelosi. We Clinton supporters do not want you to be “for” Hillary Clinton, we just want you to stop trying to rig the process for Barack Obama. And we find your feigned "neutrality" to be hypocritical in the extreme, since you have done everything in your power to publicy undermine Hillary Clinton's campaign and get her to drop out of the race.