Posted by
PoliCzar on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 2:28:26 PM
Super Tuesday means much more to the Republican party. Why, you may
ask? Because of Super Delegates of course! The DNC chooses their
nominee not the democratic voter. I couldn’t believe that this slipped
my mind, and perhaps it slipped yours also. Reading an article
yesterday regarding this exact situation blew me away. Basically, there
are 842 un-pledged super delegates which are almost 40% of the total
delegates needed to get the nomination. None of these delegates are
chosen by the voter. Who are they chosen by? Bill Clinton, Jimmy
Carter, Al Gore and many who were appointed by Howard Dean. Wow! It
really makes you want to join the Democratic party. After all,
DEMOCRACY does not exist in that party. They have Obama who is an
invented candidate. Yes, he was and still is. He was created and thrown
into this election by the media and other media personalities, I.E.
Oprah. No one heard of this guy prior to the media giving all their
attention to him. You could argue that the Clinton machine was
responsible for this because they chose a guy most people figured would
be unlikely to get the nomination. For several reasons, 1) his
background and where he lived previously, 2) questions about his
religion, 3) the fact no one knows who he is, 4) yes, even the color of
skin was part of the scenario. The latter generates a media circus
because he is now not only the first African-American to win a
primary/caucus, but he really is the first to actually have a chance.
Former African-American candidates were simply hopeless, Jesse Jackson
and Al Sharpton to name a couple. The problem with this theory is that
Obama forgets that it’s the Clinton left wing machine that is
controlling things. She will get the nomination because of the
super-delegates.
Did the Clintons misjudge Obama? You bet. He
is taking this seriously, and he should. He does have a shot in his
mind. The Clintons figured he was a throw away and would never win
anything, and he would even make Hillary look more moderate. They were
not counting on his recent surge which is pulling him closer day by
day. They did not count on Obama making Hillary look even more liberal.
We will know more after Super-Tuesday.
But I hate to be a fly in
Obama’s ointment. He will never win the nomination because he lacks the
‘Super-Delegates’. Unless the DNC is persuaded otherwise their
candidate is Hillary, she was their candidate right after the 2000
election, kind of like liberal John McCain for the GOP. I wonder if we
live in a democracy after all.