Yes, that's true, there is nothing binding until we all sit down and declare, and I show you mine and you show me yours etc.

But by that measure, there is no reason to count any super delegates, or really any pledged delegates either.

What one does is one looks at the reality on the ground (unless of course you're George W. Bush) and make the most strategic decision based on that reality.

So, yes, we don't know how much homosexual experimentation Barak Obama did while a young boy in Hawaii, just as we don't know how much heroine he has sold to inner city kids while he was going to college. And certainly if these revelations came to light there might infact be a reason to assume that super delegates would defect in droves.

Then again, Vince Foster's ghost could also appear on natioanl T.V. and reveal that it was infact Senator Clinton in the Library with the candelstick, and then where does that leave us?

If we ask ourselves what is in Senator Clinton's best interest, a losing fight on the convention floor just doesn't seem practical, and a winning fight seems rather improbable. Especially if we are counting on Senator Obama's Manchurian Islamofacist programming malfunctioning prior to August.

I actually forgot my point in that last post.

Exactly what would Hillary Clinton be quiting?

If she aknowledges that she doesn't have the votes, and endorses Barak Obama, that's not quiting, and that's not being forced out. That's losing gracefully.

Going to the floor when you know you don't have the votes, that's just suicide.

So yeah, that's about it. Senator Clinton doesn't have to quit but she does need to decide if she wants a political career after the convention.

I don't think she's a self destructive woman. So, unless there is a rush of super delegates to bolster her campaign, I'm going to have err on the side of caution and figure Barak will have the nomination sown up prior to the convention, and that Senator Clinton will respect that.

But we'll all have to see. As I said earlier, thank goodness for George W. Bush.

Of course...I think protecting active artists or their companies rights kind of outweighs the rights of consumers and publishers to profit from other peoples toil.

What is the value of one idea. That thing so perfect that one creates that everyone wants?

Certainly Disney has found lost treasures over the years appropriated them and made great profit from it, but should they be punished for their efforts to create by those wihtout imagination of their own?

I just think that if you want to call yourself a creative you shouldn't need others creations. And if you want to enjoy creations, you shouldn't expect to get others work for free.

That somethings live in limbo for a time because the rights are as yet undetermined. It seems like a small price to pay to keep others from appropriating others work without proper compensation.

Well, we are at an place where three roads meet, and all has become Tri Via.

As I said, you are right, nothing is settled till the convention, and there are a million things that could change the outcome.

And sure if Senator Clinton decides to make Senator Obama's victory Pyric, she can, and perhaps, perhaps it will have as much effect on her career as it did on Senator Kennedy's career when he opposed Carter.

The question is why would or should she take that chance.

I have said elsewhere that despite my support for Senator Obama, I feel, like Senator Clinton, that I would make the better president (mostly due to my support for manditory cloths optional Wednesdays)and yet I understand that it would take an unprecidented effort by the delegates to the Convention to make that a possibility.

Now, I can take my cause delegate to delegate, trying to switch loyalties and make my case. I can try to make a scene at the convention to make my voice heard. Or I can realize that the more I press a hopeless case the more a fool and a spoiler I look.

Could I survive my fight? Certainly. Could I win my fight? Possibly. Would those I've alienated forgive me for my actions to disenfranchise them? Maybe.

But what is the advantage? What is the purpose for this game of self agrandizment?

I think highly of Senator Clinton, and I don't think she's stupid enough to wage an unwinable war of force, when it is a turning of hearts and minds that is necessary.

But then again, perhaps I am basing my opinion on my idea of Senator Clinton and not her past actions.