Every year the National Football League (NFL) and all of its professional football teams agree before the beginning of the season that Preseason games do not count towards determining who gets into the playoffs at the end of the regular season.

Now just imagine this scenario:

At the end of the regular season, Jerry Jones and his Dallas Cowboys find that they will not be eligible for the playoffs, and now they want the last preseason game - which we will assume for purposes of this scenario that they won - to count towards the regular season record. If that is the case, the Cowboys would make the playoffs.

When the NFL and the other teams tell Dallas that they must abide by the agreement that everyone made at the beginning of the season, Jerry Jones says the last pre-season game should count towards the regular season record (thus, ensuring Dallas would be in the playoffs), and the Dallas fans say they will protest at the Championship game.

In a similar vein, the game of golf has a "do-over" (taking a shot again because you didn't like the first shot); it is called a "mulligan". In other words, "I don't want that shot to count, so let me take it over again." The mulligan is a universal joke in the world of golf because it's really just a rationalization for cheating.

The Point: The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Democratic Presidential candidates had previously agreed last year that the results for the Florida and Michigan primaries would not count as a result of their independent decision to hold their primaries earlier than the most other states.

When President Bill Clinton was in the Oval Office he was notorious for taking mulligans when playing golf. As a gesture of conciliation to the President of the United States, no one ever said "No" to his request for a mulligan. Now his wife wants a "mulligan" for the Florida and Michigan primaries.

If you ever play golf with the Clintons, don't play for money. If they are about to lose, they will subtly pressure you to agree to change the rules to make sure you lose the game.

In other words, forget about winning (or losing) fair and square. In "Clinton World" it's all about what's 'good for me'.