It Isn’t The Ruthless Cynicism
It’s the utter gutlessness! Arianna Huffington makes a good point: “Stop Yelling at Hillary to Stand Down and Start Yelling at the Superdelegates to Stand Up!” Only one problem:Â Â
There are currently 212 uncommitted superdelegates (not counting Michigan and Florida). What are they waiting for?
I understand there are still three more primaries to go. But there is nothing that is going to happen in Puerto Rico or South Dakota or Montana that is going to convince Hillary Clinton to leave the race. Her argument isn’t about pledged delegates, which is what is at stake in these remaining primaries. Her argument is about Florida and Michigan and convincing the superdelegates to overturn the pledged delegate majority Obama has won.Â
So it’s time for the uncommitted superdelegates to stop their dithering, come out of hiding, hop off the fence, endorse Obama and officially bring this nominating process to an end.
The Democratic leadership — starting with Pelosi, Reid, and Dean — should begin working behind the scenes to get all uncommitted supers to immediately commit. Let Puerto Rico, South Dakota, and Montana have their say, but start bringing the curtain down now.
And let’s not just wait for the party leaders to put pressure on the superdelegates. Let’s start putting pressure ourselves.
OK, maybe a couple of problems. Expecting any kind of decisive, effective leadership out of Pelosi, Reid and Dean is a bit much, and expecting their membership to respond is a bit much more, defying recent party history. Especially when, at this point, 212 of them clearly aren’t ready to hand it to Obama. Maybe because, whether you want to blame Hillary, the media or the superdelegates … or Obama, his big mouth, his wife’s big mouth and his former pastor’s big mouth … the race isn’t over yet.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:34 pm on Thursday, May 22, 2008
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May 23rd, 2008 at 10:28 am
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May 23rd, 2008 at 12:20 pm
I think you’ve got it right. The superdelegates may not want to give their votes to Hillary, but they are afraid Obama can’t win the general election, at this point. What a quandary. Excuse me, I feel a bout of schadenfreude coming on.