Superdelegates: Pick a Winner

This is an excellent piece bud. The problem is you are using logic.

Obama’s approach to what superdelegates “should” do have nothing whatsoever to do with the actual reason superdelegates were put there to beging with. I did a piece on this here explaining how they came to be and why. The idea here was to avoid another George McGovern disaster, which 19 and 20 year old kids picked the nominee, who in turn got his butt handed to him on a plate, thereby sending the party into the tank for a couple of decades. The superdelegates were put their to ensure this never happened again. They are afraid to do their job now because of the threats of riots.

I did a piece here, that included an interview with McGovern himself, explaining why superdelegates were put there. We are heading for a mcgovern disaster with Barack Obama.

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/04/02/dispelling-the-obama-moose-poop-about-super-delegates/

Have you kids been to foxnews.com to see the funny church sign?

I’m more generous in my view as to why the Dem leadership is afraid of a fight at the convention. The fear is that the AA voter will stay home if they believe BO’s nomination was stolen. Without the AA, Demos are in trouble. We must not allow that to happen any more than allowing the working class in the rust belt to feel forgotten and abused, as they did when they voted for Reagan. I think it’s valid concern, and BO, owes the AA voters an explanation why he did not win OH,CA, MA, and yeah, PA. That explanation cannot be the bs that he gave at the fundraisers in SF. BO will have to admit first that he lost because he is a LOUSY candidate for POTUS.

Obama and McCain are tied in Massachusetts. That is a recipe for disaster.

A different view? What’s made the AA voters so important in this primary is they were manipulated into believing they had to support bo or told they’d betray their race.

FACT Significant AA leaders are becoming more vocal in their support of Hillary.. been said that bo is setting back civil rights reputation and they don’t like it. Brave, smooth articulate Philly mayor helping these AA Hill supporters come out more. Possible that block may start to shift – or at least wiggle over – in the PA vote results today. Many don’t really want to vote with race as an issue, they are just as concerned about economy and war as we all are.

Also: No reason for Dems to expect total loss of this demographic with HIllary as the candidate. Statistics (updated yesterday) indicate a small part of bo’s camp say they won’t support Hillary. These few are making the noise. However, many HIllary supporters absolutely won’t support bo – with good cause.

And, even the MSM is giving up on the nightmare of a combined ticket. Many avid pro-HIllary supporters don’t trust bo whatsoever and consider his far left sympathies very dangerous. With the (even limited) power of the VP, he could wreak havoc in international affairs and Pres. Hill doesn’t need her time wasted cleaning up his faux pas and false promises – here or abroad.

Finally, as long as Hillary’s base keeps expanding with 1) crucial votes of white males 2) more and more students are coming her way 3) as a volunteer caller I’ve been watching a trend since Ohio in which more ENTIRE families are voting for her as a block and 4) let’s see tonight how she does with the Catholic vote – remember Casey is Catholic and has been glued to bo’s hip hop across the state. If Hill takes the Catholic vote anyway, that is a strong sign also, that bo’s glamor endorsements, again, aren’t working.

Am holding the Vision Light dawns on the party and HILL is the nominee with the multitude of bo scandals disqualifying his credibility as even a VP. Riots in Denver? If so, will NOT hurt the Dem vote – these are different times and any moron knows, if you care about the economy and you want out of Iraq, YOU DON’T VOTE MCCAINE.

If the SD’s do their job then if Hillary is gaining momentum by winning PA and IA, and if, mighty big if, the votes are counted in FL and MI then she should have the popular vote. If she does I don’t see how SD’s can do anything but choose her. But much as I am hoping for her and wishing for her and pulling for her, unless she has the popular vote going into the convention I don’t see how she can win.

So, you people in Pennsylvania, get out there and support her. Vote for her. Talk it up.

Plus I like scary smart people that know what they’re talking about. I think that’s a good thing to have in a president. But that’s just me.

Good stuff from Hill HQ!

I’ve made the links active, for your convenience.

Ciao,

G-N-G

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=7239
PRESS RELEASE

4/22/2008
HUBdate: Election Day in Pennsylvania

Previewing Today: This morning, Hillary visits Pennsylvanians as they go to the polls. Tonight, Hillary will celebrate Election Day in Philadelphia, PA at the Park Hyatt Philadelphia.

“Who Do You Think Has What it Takes?” An ad released yesterday offers Hillary’s closing argument to Pennsylvania: “It’s the toughest job in the world. You need to be ready for anything – especially now, with two wars, oil prices skyrocketing and an economy in crisis. Harry Truman said it best – if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Who do you think has what it takes?” Watch Here.

Who is Hillary Clinton? From the Huffington Post: “If you want to know what Hillary believes in, what she stands for, and what’s in her heart, then look at what she’s been fighting for her whole life: she’s been fighting for people who need help… And Hillary’s supporters are standing up for her, because they know she will stand up for them as President, as their advocate abroad and their champion at home. They are standing up for her, because they know she will work her heart out for them. And they know that, because that’s what she’s been doing her whole life.” Read more.

If You Watch One Thing Today: Hillary tells Larry King, “I think it’s important that we have an election that asks people who they would hire for the toughest job in the world.” Watch here and here.

Madame President: “Joined by her husband and daughter,…Hillary…wrapped up her final Pennsylvania campaign push last night at a passionate rally at the packed and sweltering Palestra. [Hillary said:] ‘This has been an extraordinary campaign, and it has been for all the right reasons,’ Clinton told the audience…who frequently drowned her out by stomping on the old bleachers of the University of Pennsylvania’s arena.” Read more.

Hoosiers for Hillary: Across Indiana, Hillary supporters will participate in phone banks today to reach out to Pennsylvania voters during the final hours of the primary there.

Oregon for Hillary: 20 prominent Oregonians have joined Hillary’s state steering committee. These supporters know Hillary “understands Oregon’s needs and who has the experience to work with our state to get things done,” said Steering Committee Chair Josh Kardon. Read more.

On Tap: Tomorrow, Hillary returns to Indiana. She will make stops across the Hoosier state through Saturday, sharing her plans to jumpstart the economy, create jobs, and strengthen the middle class.

Who would the rioters be? Hmmmm. Must read on the Obama campaign’s official blogger.

http://thecommonills.blogspot.com/2008/04/sam-graham-felsen-stands-for-what.html

Behind the bar, in the corner, hangs a Communist Party flag that Sam and Kieran bought on their trip to Russia the summer after sophomore year.

Starting with campaign news. “Sam” hanging the Communist Party flag is Sam Graham-Felsen
and the above is from Daniela J. Lamas’s June 2003 “The Four-Year Path to a Quincy Suite” (Harvard Crimson) when Sam Graham-Felsen was a student at Harvard. His roommates gift him with a guitar (the article informs) and he passes on Marx (Karl, not Groucho). Sam is, of course, the “official campaign blogger” for Obama. He apparently started that job very early judging by the drools he published at The Nation over his man-crush. What brings the two together other than Sam’s starry-eyed desire? Who knows?

Since they aren’t counting Fl and MI, To balance that disenfranchisement out, why don’t we not count 2 other states of equal delegate votes that Obama won. That way the current states that are being punished won’t feel so bad and the 2 new states who will be disenfranchised won’t really care or won’t care enough to bother in the general election. Do you think they would mind? Instead of Hillary taking the hit, we will make the hit even. Of coarse did Obama even win two states as big as FL and MI???

“If we want to usher in a new progressive Era, we must find a new national coalition, somewhat similar to Roosevelt’s New Deal alliance, that will dominate American politics for the next four decades or so. We must also identify a formula for winning the Electoral College. Obama’s crazy quilt of states, heterogeneous congeries of supporters, and odd assortment of potential Electoral College votes can never do this. The key to replacing the old reactionary Southern strategy of the Republicans may well be a Southwest strategy for progressive Democrats. We have already noted that Mrs. Clinton has carried the Latino vote by a margin of two to one, and has also carried the Asian vote by a similar two to one margin. Latino voters and Asian voters represent two of the most dynamic classes of voters in the United States today–they represent in many ways a wave of the future. If we add in women, trade union families, blue-collar workers, retired people, blacks, the lower middle class and the broad middle class, plus immigrant groups, we can see the outlines of a national coalition capable of dominating the American political scene for the foreseeable future. . . . The lesson of all this is that Mrs. Clinton’s campaign so far adumbrates a durable winning combination for the Democratic Party among key sociological groups and in the Electoral College. Obama, by contrast, offers an odd assortment of states, an incongruous slapdash coalition, a random congeries, a crazy quilt or checkerboard of states where he might conceivably muddle through. By now it should be plain to all that 2008 will go down in history as a great watershed year in the latest party realignment of American politics, joining such landmark elections as the Jacksonian Democrats of 1828, the Lincoln Republicans of 1860, the Wall Street Republicans of 1896, the magnificent Franklin D. Roosevelt New Deal of 1932, and the abominable reactionary Nixon success of 1968. The house we build this year is the one we will have to live in until the midpoint of the 21st century, so it is imperative to step back from the Obama craze and its swarming adolescents and soberly measure what is at stake.”–W. G. Tarpley, Obama: The Postmodern Coup, pp. 126, 158-59