Thou Shalt Only Say Things That Support Me
In what can only be an orchestrated move, 20 top Clinton donors have sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demanding that she retract her stated opinion that so-called “super-delegates” should reflect voters’ opinions and issue a replacement statement with an opinion that encourages super-delegates to make an “independent” decision.
Message control has always been a strong suit of Clinton campaigns, but this is just going overboard. Not only do they control their own message, but they claim the authority to control everyone else’s too. And if you don’t like it, they will blackmail you into submission.
If the Obama campaign had tried a stunt like this, the number of posts blasting them for it would blow out the bandwidth meters on most service providers. But since it is Obama’s opponent doing it, expect the sound of crickets chirping.
LOL, we respect the voters so don’t you dare suggest that super-delegates should as well.
It’s the audacity of SOMETHING, that’s for sure….
Your comment would make more sense if the superdelegates were meant to simply ratify the votes according to the popular vote, Claudia. That’s not why they were created (if they were put in place for that purpose, it would be redundant to have them anyway.) They’re there so that the party CAN choose to overturn the popular vote, if the party leaders think that that’s necessary.
Christine: exactly. One of the moments at which superdelegates will do so, is when they think that the person with most normal delegates is beaten up too much; too weak to win the general election.
Yes I know, which is why it’s so hypocritical for the big doners to say that they are worried because they "respect the voters" and want everyone to have their say. They are clearly disapproving of a call for superdelegates to let the voters decide and not overturn their decision.
True, Michael, but in that sense I can certainly understand why Obama supporters would greatly resent it if Hillary beats Obama up (rhetorically speaking, of course) and then uses that as her rationale in making her case that the superdelegates should throw the nomination to her.
Sure. But if Clinton can do it, so can McCain. Perhaps even better, with the entire conservative machine working for him.
Pfft. You actually still believe that the ‘vast right wing conspiracy’ is somehow more sinister than what the Clinton’s dish out, eh? Even after reading those memos from when HC was working on healthcare reform, and her team discussed how they were going to take down their opponents (by attacking them personally- you know, what one might call the ‘politics of personal destruction’?) HC likes to act as though she’s always the victim of right wing attacks, but she showed there that her tendency to act that way preceded anything that was done to her or Bill.
Not saying of course that the GOP doesn’t play dirty politics, but I think it’s completely a myth that they’re any worse than the Dems are. And actually, I think the reason that Democratic voters are becoming so sickened by this primary fight is that they are now seeing that for the first time- that their guys aren’t any better than Karl Rove or Lee Atwater. Of course they’re not willing to admit that everyone on ‘their side’ is like this, so they compartmentalize it- Obama supporters feel this is a Clinton problem, and vice versa.
So to summarize. HRC Cannot gain the popular vote, nor enough delegate votes which means that she is not the consensus candidate by anyone’s standards. So to achieve what is rightfully her’s she needs to dup the Superdelegates into crowning her instead. Despite her continual baggage, politics of destruction, deceit, and a growing unconcern of the Democrat party.
That about sum it up?