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• Wednesday, August 27, 2008 03:27 AM

  Boring, Clueless Comment (Mine)

  "He's unelectable."

  "And PUMAs--you got your marching orders from the boss herself."

  Why anyone thinks that candidates do the thinking for their constituency, I'm not sure. Why delegates are complaining about how to vote (Hilary, tell us waht to do...) when they had their marching orders already from those who elected them is confusing to me. The people who elected them, I thought, were giving marching orders--not CLINTON. Delegates were elected to go to the convention and vote for who they were elected to vote for, I believe. There's nothing really complex or confusing about it. Were I a delegate elected to vote for Hilary, I would do. Were I a delegate elected to vote for Obama, I would do so. Party "bosses" may be hand-wringing, wanting a show of unity, but the party was not and is not unified yet. A show doesn't "make" 18 million votes of folks who are not in Denver go away. Implicit in the comment above, the whole notion of Democrats having marching orders and you better like it by god, is really amazing to me.

  Guess politics is just confusing to me.

  "He's unelectable" though still resonates. Wonder if she meant what she said? "He's not ready to be President." Wonder if he meant what he said?

  Doesn't seem like they ever mean what they say, or rather, they did mean it, but then later have to retract it because they have their marching orders. Who's giving it to them, I don't know. The people? Hmmm...oh, well.

  Lacking incisive, decisive insight, but not full of shit,

  Me

  —Beth_W Read Beth_W's other letters
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