Letters to the Editor
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What is a superdelegate to do? Poor babies.
What's a weary, befuddled superdelegate -- desperate for clarity -- to do?
How about .. resign in disgrace and ask the party to pick someone with bigger gonads to take their seat.
The reason for being of the Democratic party's at-large delegates is to interject personal judgment into the nomination process, rather than having it all be about elections. If they all decided that the party's viability required that Kucinch be nominated instead of Obama or Clinton, then they could dig in their heels and force the other two to a compromise. Democratic or not, that's how the system is supposed to work.
If a given superdelegate finds that responsibility too great to bear, or is anxious because they never expected that a divided enthusiasm for two strong candidates would ever oblige them to exercise it, then they are both foolish (the superdelegates came into existence because of exactly such a scenario) and unqualified for their role. It's hard to have a lot of sympathy.
And much the same could be said for coastal Democrats who are frustrated that their primaries weren't the deciding ones.