Letters to the Editor
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Ramus1 & L1Standing
Nice try. The clip's been doctored according to Politico and Drudgereport. It's actually from the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign movie by D.A. Pennebaker.
Yeah, just keep trying with any ole bullshit you all can makeup or doctor to fit some of nonsense put out there about the Clintons. But it all ends up a stinking pile of shit coming back to haunt you.
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superdelegates
Hey, superdelegates! You had better get together and find a really good candidate to run vs. McCain. Obama is kaputt and Clinton was always a bad choice. You had better act soon or all will be lost and your party will again have grasped defeat from the jaws of certain victory.
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Bye bye, Obama
Every day a new poll shows him bleeding out, losing support with key constituencies. He's got the Dem nomination, but he's a dead man walking in November. Happy days are here again!
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Making up their Minds
Why is it so hard for democrats to make up their minds? The major complaint about democrats, rightfully, is that they refuse to commit. They couldn't decide on invading Iraq, they couldn't take a stand on the Patriot Act, they refuse to do anything but talk about our assault on human rights, they even fail to take a clear stand on taxes. So here we are, and the super delegates,largely political know-alls in the party, can't make up their mind--and worse (much worse) they are afraid that someone might actually force them to make a hard decision. Making important decisions ought to be a privilege, not something that causes high anxiety nightmares. And certainly, not something that that these super delegates don't want to make because it might make someone upset.
Again, why can't democrats just stand up and say what they believe and stand by it instead of constantly standing on the sidelines hoping that no one ever asks them to do or say anything.
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@Damnthatxanadu
And your logic is: money buys everything? Funny how all that money didn't do squat for Obama in Pennsylvania. I actually think people there were offended that they could be bought off with the sheer 24/7 ad campaign onslaught.
Well, it probably helped him go from over 20 points behind to within 9 points. Enough to dilute Clinton's win, leaving him still far ahead in every metric.
Just because he didn't win PA doesn't mean the democrats don't want his war chest. Or, maybe the superdelegates will read your letter and realize money isn't everything. Then they will join hands and create a rainbow energy beam to solve all the world's problems. Yeah, that's where the smart money is.
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@Susan
Certainly, you're not the first to express that sentiment, and in most areas you cite I completely agree.
But I sympathize with the Superdelegates' plight a bit more than most (even as I question there reason to exist at all). If I were among the party elite and my vote counted more than everyone else's, I would consider that an awfully heavy burden to shoulder. My understanding of my obligation is simple: I could not be a party to installing as our nominee a candidate with fewer pledged delegates than the other candidate. That would render the primary system a sham. We may as well have just installed our nominee before it began.
If it was absolutely clear to me which candidate that would be, I would go public. Otherwise, I would wait until the entire public has voted. Even though I know this extended process is hurting us.
Yes, I understand that as a superdelegate I would have the power to thwart the popular will. But I remember those occasions when we have done so. And I remember the results. I remember the reforms that were put into place after 1968 to make the party more (small-d) democratic. And I remember the rollback of those reforms in 1980 that gave the party elites more power (including the creation of the superdelegates).
But I would reject any suggestion that I should thwart the popular will. The calculus is so simple it's hardly worth discussing. The only hope for a Democratic victory is a united party in the Fall. The only hope for a united party in the Fall is a candidate that has won the nomination, fairly and squarely, abiding by the agreed-upon rules, and without the assistance of backroom wheeling-and-dealing by the Party elite.
So get out there and drum up votes for your candidate. Whoever rolls into Denver with the most pledged delegates will win the nomination. If not - trust me - there will be hell to pay, and it will be far worse than simply losing a single election.
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What about progressives & young voters?
I just heard a Hillary supporter on CNN say if she wins IN, she will say to the Super delegates: look I won the REAL voters. Not a good general electon strategy to dismiss progressives and young voters. This is exaclty why the Democrats have been loosing in past few electins because they are pandering to he center.
If she keeps this up Hillary wont' get my vote in the general if she by some fluke gets the nomination. I am sick of them bashing of eltiites, and dismissing my vote.
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Could It Be That No Democrat Can Win
unless they are willing to become a Republican?
To me it seems that, as things are set up now, the politics of personal destruction and distraction WORKS.
And there is seemingly no defense other than reciprocity- we have to stand by candidates who resort to things that we would rightly be outraged by if it came from a nominal Republican.
Genuine democratic debate is fragile. Yet bi-partisanship grinds it into the earth as genuine differences in worldview are caricatured as the collective babble of "hillbots" and "obamatons."
If genuine democratic dialogue is no longer possible- isn't that by definition the death-knell of genuine democracy?
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"Please God, don't let them hit it to me."
"I don't want to alienate anybody, period,"
I love this article, it just exemplifies everything wrong with the Democratic party.
"I don't want that responsibility. No thank you."
It reminds me of a Get Fuzzy comic from a while back.
"It's spineless, it's blue, it's slow moving yet it leaves a layer of slime on everything it touches. . . I'm sorry, but in my book, that's a democrat."