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Below please find comments I wrote to Adrews comments on my blog entitled Clinton and Super Delegates Go Nuclear

It's nice to know that there's like minded people out there. After reading your comments I agree that the "super delegates" could reach an independent concussion about Obama's electability. 


What I'm afraid of is that no matter how they abandon Obama that there's going to be violence. I believe that people are so emotionally invested in Senator Obama that any outcome that doesn't have him at the top of the ticket is going to trigger a very bad reaction. 


The bad thing is that the "super delegates" would be acting entirely within Democratic Party rules. The thing that really bothers me about these rules is that even after winning the most delegates and the popular vote the nomination can be taken away from the winner. And they call themselves the "Democratic Party". This sounds more like the Communist Party to me.


I'd like to know what the heck the Democratic leadership was thinking when they passed these rules. How can any party allow one group of delegates to be set apart, and above all the other delegates. Why waste the time, money, and effort of going through the nomination process when all the delegates that you've won can be overridden by party bosses and insiders. The "super delegates" should just come forward now and stop wasting the nations time and let us know which candidate they're going to support.


The problem that the Democratics face now is that, no matter what the rest of the primaries produce Hillary Clinton can't win. Under the apportionment system Senator Clinton can't overtake Barack Obama. There just aren't enough delegates left to win the nomination outright. So the only chance Clinton has is to win the popular vote. This would give the "super delegates" the cover they need to throw the nomination to Hillary.


Up until the revelation of the sermons of the "Rev." Jeremiah Wright Jr. I thought there was no stopping the Obama train. But now that we've heard how that for twenty years Barack Obama sat in the pews of this hate filled preacher, maybe people will wake up from this hypnotic spell they've been under for the last several months. 


The question for the Republican Party is which candidate would John McCain do better against? Both the Democratic candidates would present some very difficult obstacles. Both Clinton and Obama are going to play the victim card. Obama's people are going to claim some sort of racism, and Clinton will cry sexism. So McCain people are going to have to walk on egg shells during this whole campaign season.


Thank you for your kind words about my blog. I really do this to blow off stream. I never really expected anyone to take notice of my positions and after reading your posts I see that we have a lot in common. I just hope that we are in the mainstream and not just preaching to the choir.


Below are Andrews comments to my blog:

My one difference from your position is that I don't think it is Hillary driving it.

I think some democratic insiders may actually have independently decided that Obama is not electable and started looking for cover should they go over to Hillary.

After PA and TX, they had that cover, as they could claim that momentum was behind Hillary.

Then came Ferraro and Hillary's mea culpa speech, and that cover vanished.

Now, with this Rev. Wright thing, they may be back in Hillary's corner. It depends on how long it stays in the press, and how poorly Obama continues to respond.

If you are interested, my take is here:
http://andrews.blogtownhall.com/2008/03/14/changing_predici tions.thtml

And my earlier take was here:
http://andrews.blogtownhall.com/2008/03/05/in_the_hands_of_ the_superdelegates.thtml

Essentially I agree with your interpretation, I just think that, though she way benefit from it, not all the energy behind the superdelegate defections is Hillary's. I think some other insiders may be worrying about Obama's chances as well.

And, completely off topic: I have only read two of your posts so far, but I like the blog. 
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