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Well, technically she's right. And so long as it is within the agreed rules I don't really have a problem with it beyond the appearance of poor sportsmanship.
While I don't think she'd really have any success in flipping a significant number of pledged delegates I can think of a reason to prod them towards showing at least a willingness to consider it. She needs to keep the superdelegates from committing en masse to Obama after the last primaries. There'll be a lot of pressure for them commit themselves ASAP so as to avoid going to the convention with things in the air and to allow Obama to begin running against McCain rather than Clinton.
And if it seems inevitable that Clinton will lose at the convention no matter what I imagine that's exactly what the superdelegates will do. However, if she can convince the superdelegates to keep the outcome in limbo past the first ballot by showing that on subsequent ballots, once the delegates are freed from their commitments, she'll get a lot of transferred support then she might be able to convince a lot of superdelegates that really do prefer her to hold off.
I still don't see it working. But this is all also part of what Clinton needs to be doing. She can't say "well, we're pretty much out of it but I like campaigning." She has to be putting out paths to the presidency, regardless of how unlikely they really are.
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