Hillary Clinton goes around the bend of logic, common sense, and history, claiming that failure to count the previously excluded Michigan and Florida delegates is like reinstituting slavery, rolling back women’s right to vote, George W. Bush’s alleged theft of the 2000 election, etc. Really. It’s a wonder the International Court of Justice hasn’t been convened.

Listen, it may be smart politics to count these votes. It may be unfair in some sense to exclude votes from Democrats who made the effort to turn out, but come on. Political parties set all types of rules — crazy ones with superdelegates and indecisive proportionate voting, for example. There is nothing illegal or immoral about this.

But it’s hard not to enjoy the spectacle of Democrats, who made the 2000 Florida recount into an exercise in rhetorical overkill, receive some cosmic justice in having to deal with Clinton’s arguments.

In the end I suspect Obama will just give her the delegates and avoid the fuss. After all, he has delegates to spare.