Letters to the Editor
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Superdelagates are the antithesis of super
This country's election rules are such a crock. Why does the backbone of this country continue to run on antiquated and inane laws? We need to get rid of everything but the popular vote. Putting tight elections into the hands of superdelagates (or the Supreme Court if you're Al Gore) just keeps taking the power away from many and giving it to a few. These superdelagates are all pathetic- they just don't want to get on the wrong side of either candidate and risk their own asses in the future.
I know she stands a chance in hell but I'm hoping for a miracle to put a woman in the white house!
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Too late.
The lesson to be learned from all this: Democrats desperately need to change their method of picking a nominee. Let's get rid of the caucuses and have several national primaries which include a number of states rather than allow Iowa to select out a viable candidate. It gave us Kerry and now Obama who is every bit as vulnerable, if not more so, than Kerry.
Too late, unfortunately. AFter the GOP has Congress back and McCain appoints 3 SCOTUS - there IS no Democratic party.
The Dems have won THREE elections in 40 years largely because the left pulls the same crap every time: insisting on a "pure" candiate that doesn't appeal to anyone else. They've wrecked the Democratic party. Putting Howard Dean and Obama and shoving them down the throats while declaring war on center-left (electable) Democrats and hailing Ned Lamont's has finished us off. Obama is an electoral shipwreck and Clinton has been damaged by his negative campaigning and the press's gleeful emphasis of to the point where she may well not be able to beat McCain anymore.
Remember, despite what the neo-lefties like to bray, parties don't get stronger by losing. They get weaker and then go into oblivion. This election was truly the end of the line. The GOP will gerrymander and legislate the party into extinction now even if it wasn't going to be in hopeless despair.
Hate to be so dismal, but that's how I see it.
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re: Salon's Obama bias
too, noticed that Salon blatantly implied Bill Clinton was the only one using the phone. I get so tired of all the Obama articles, the favoritism, the pandering to Obama supporters evident day after day in Salon's articles.
My opinion:
you have to understand the mentality of the neo-left. They LIKE to lose. They enjoy it. AFter the loss they get to feel like pompous superiors and they get to wring their hands and serve as the loyal opposition griping and whining about every GOP atrocity for the next term. Catering as waterholes for a price (donations, subscriptions, etc) to frustrated lefties looking to have some enjoyable agonizing with the like-minded.
Salon, moveon.org Air America, all the bastions of neo-leftyism , that's what they do and that's who they cater to. Keeps their bread buttered. The hell with the people who are suffering under the GOP plutocracy.
Anyway, that's how I see it.
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You tell it, Shawn WM, you've got these loony lefties' number
They're happy to destroy their own party out of some fantasy of ideological purity. They are sick and insane. And they have found their perfect candidate--a clueless, preening nitwit who can sometimes (when the teleprompter works) make pretty speeches but who no one in their right mind could ever imagine actually being President of the United States.
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Shawnwm,
Actually the polls are showing that Hillary outpolls McCain significantly whereas Obama more or less ties him. It is obvious that Hillary is the stronger candidate but these Obama fanatics refuse to open their eyes!
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Defection of longtime superdelegate jolts Clinton
SOUTH BEND, Ind.
Hillary Rodham Clinton was jolted Thursday by the defection of one of her longtime superdelegate supporters, former national party chairman Joe Andrew, who urged fellow Democrats to "reject the old negative politics" and unify behind Barack Obama.
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Shawn WM
Ya ROCK!
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little typo
There is a common assumption, particularly among passionate supporters of front-runner Barack Obama, that the unelected superdelegates to the Democratic Convention are waiting for an excuse to defy the wishes of rank-and-file voters and install Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee. In truth, there is scant evidence that
I think you meant this instead:
In truth, there is scant evidence that There is a common assumption, particularly among passionate supporters of front-runner Barack Obama, that the unelected superdelegates to the Democratic Convention are waiting for an excuse to defy the wishes of rank-and-file voters and install Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee.
Seriously, I'm a passionate Obama supporter, I hang out on DailyKos constantly, and I haven't really seen this assumption having much currency.
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suck ups aside...
Am I the only one who gets, now & Finally, HRC's 3AM message? If she can't make HER OWN Superduperdelegate telecons - then clearly it's Daddy answering those calls after all.
"My" Superduper (Capps D-CA) just got with the program BTW.
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"If it goes to the convention, everybody's up for grabs."
Isn't wonderful to find out how much the non-superdelegate vote really counts, or doesn't? We're back to the "smoke-filled" room. I hope no one inhales!
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Clinton supporters, superdelegates, loss of reality and using the phrase "we're disappointed in your neo-lefty tendencies" over and over again ain't gonna win it for Hillary
This is impressing no one. Least of all the superdelegates. They went with the "safe" Hillary Clinton choice twice before, Gore and Kerry. We lost both times.
The last time they won was when they went with the young, inexperienced, male candidate with a ton of baggage going into the election that no one thought could win.
If we're just getting down to cold, hard electability facts that's what they should do again.
Hillary Clinton doesn't even want to START on who's unelectable because of scandals. And she knows it. She's (wisely) steered clear of this, because she knows as well as I do she's toxic in the general election, and she's hoping she'll skate by long enough for everyone to forget it. 60% of the country doesn't think she's honest. 55% of them have an unfavorable view of her ALREADY. Hillary Clinton's unelectable. I know it. You know it. The superdelegates know it. It's why they're moving more and more towards Obama everyday. Any Clinton supporters really want to examine how many superdelegates have moved towards Obama v.s. Clinton since Super Tuesday? Since Ohio (which she claims is one of her great triumphs)? Since Texas (which she actually lost)? How about since Pennsylvania?
If all we have to do is say we're disappointed in the superdelegates who aren't voting for our candidate, than fine: I'm disappointed in all of the superdelegates who aren't voting for Obama.
As others have noted the Clinton campaign needs to be worrying about the superdelegates they keep losing to Obama every day: including Joe Andrew, the former head of the DNC and Indiana superdelegate today.