THIS IS FROM WILLIAM

If all the superdelegates were supposed to do was vote exactly in keeping with the pledged delegates, the whole concept of superdelegates would be a joke. Those weren't intended to be ceremonial positions. They were intended to act as a counterweight to a system which might allow someone (like McGovern) to win lots of caucuses in red states and thus overproduce a delegate count which did not match his popularity or If all the superdelegates were supposed to do was vote exactly in keeping with the pledged delegates, the whole concept of superdelegates would be a joke. Those weren't intended to be ceremonial positions. They were intended to act as a counterweight to a system which might allow someone (like McGovern) to win lots of caucuses in red states and thus overproduce a delegate count which did not match his popularity or electability. That is exactly what they were put in to do; not to rubber-stamp the pledged delegates.. Pelosi either is an idiot, or she knows that very well and is simply trying to provide cover for her Obama support.

Donna Brazile knows that very well, too; because she was part of this process. If the Democratic Party ever had fifty closed primaries, no caucuses, and none of this inane awarding of delegates based on last election's turnout in various districts (that was put in to give more weight to Black voters), then we wouldn't need superdelegates. But when you have a system which allows Obama to lose the vote in Nevada and get more delegates, or to lose by 100,000 in Texas and somehow win the delegate count, you need superdelegates to be aware of that, and to compensate. Again, willful obtuseness and obfuscation by the Democratic hierarchy. How about telling the voters the truth about the process, Ms. Pelosi and Ms. Brazile? You're no better than the Republicans, when it comes down to it.

by William