Super Duper Delegate Madness
And so it’s come down to this. There are numerous states that have yet to hold their primary elections. Don’t get me wrong, they’ll all matter, but not in the way that anyone would normally hope. Clinton & Obama are just about neck and neck in this thing, and there are roughly about 1600 or so delegates up for grabs after yesterday’s primaries and caucuses. Unless something drastic happens, the two are likely to split the leftovers. So not much will change, unless the polls swing. Each victory from Super Tuesday onward is less about collecting new delegates as it is about impressing the 796 member super-delegate club, of which Bill Clinton happens to be a member.
The Democratic party’s super delegate system is insane, and needs to go away. Created in the 80’s it was intended to give 3rd party candidates a fair shot, even if they lost ever single primary & caucus. This year we’ll see that all the system actually does is allow ex-presidents, congressmen, and party loyalists to do the picking for us.
So not cool, DNC.
According to the demographics, I should be voting for Hillary Clinton: I’m a white, 60-year-old, highly educated woman from the Northeast. But I’m voting for Obama. I’ve waited all my life for a viable woman candidate for the presidency, but this is not the right woman. I want a woman of the highest ability and virtue, who would serve as a glorious role model to all young women. Hillary Clinton is not that woman.
She rode into power with her husband, and together they’ve acquired a long and seriously flawed history of self-serving and secretive financial and political dealings. The most cursory research will prove that true. She started out her political life supporting the racist Barry Goldwater. She is as comfortable with deception and trickery as George Bush. When I hear woman saying, “Oh, but that’s how you get things done in Washington,” I literally cringe.
I am passionately supporting Barack Obama. He can beat the Republicans; she cannot. Obama has attracted Independents and even Republicans to his camp, and in a general election they would vote for him, but not for Clinton. Clinton voted for the war, and has never apologized for it. Obama has spoken out against it from the beginning. Obama brings us hope–and not just that. Take a serious look at his ideas and experience.
Please, I beg of you, Sisters young and old: wait for the right woman. Then we can be proud.
Diane Wald
whydidyoudoit
February 10, 2008 at 1:06 am
Check out this editorial – http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/opinion/25ferraro.html
Unbelievable. Apparently boomer women feel they can do just as good a job as boomer men at destroying our democracy. They are just softening us up for an against the popular vote decision at the convention
jlelliott
February 25, 2008 at 10:36 am