In 2000, Clinton's mantra was "play by the rules." In 2008, it's "change, break and ignore the rules."

Back in the day, Bill Clinton thought if you played by the rules, you could get ahead:

"The main idea here is still the old idea of the American dream ... that if you work hard and play by the rules, you ought to have a decent life and a chance for your children to have a better one, " he said.

Leave it to Team Clinton to make playing by the rules an out-of-date concept. The new main idea behind his wife's campaign is that you change, ignore or break the rules when you're losing and screw over the candidate who has played by the rules. (Then, you do the easy part of convincing the gullible pundits that the rules didn't really matter.)