Today Senator Hillary Clinton has something to be very happy and proud about because the voters in Pennsylvania gave her a much needed win. It is now up to the last few states to give a clear indication on how they want our party to move.
I saw on the morning program today that Senator Clinton was put on the spot about the Superdelegates. She was asked what type of message it would send to voters if the Superdelegates overturned the popular vote. Senator Clinton’s response was that the Superdelegates are leaders of our party who have many years of experience in the field and she thinks that their judgment in this matter should override the popular vote. In this case I am hoping that Senator Clinton is correct in her opinion that our party leaders are too wise to make a mistake when it comes down to the wire.
I for one am not thrilled with that idea. I like Senator Clinton and think that she would do a better job than Senator Obama on the issues that I care a great deal about in this year’s election but I don’t think it sends a positive message when the voters have to take a back seat to the Superdelegates. The Superdelegates are leaders of our party and elected officials therefore they should realize just how important the support of voters is to any candidate. If they go against the popular vote, I can see a great number of voters not showing up at the polls in November. People are going to say let the Superdelegates win the election for their candidate in November. This type of behavior could greatly harm our party. I just can’t image that they would be so arrogant as to think that the general voting population would stand still for this type of overt political maneuver.
The press is spending a lot of air time talking up the Superdelegates going against the popular vote right now because the regular delegate numbers are very close and now the Superdelegates votes may count. If they do override the popular vote it would be the height of being out of touch with the people who cast their votes on Election Day. I am hoping that party leadership like Howard Dean and Al Gore will step in and say something or anything to the candidates before this issue comes to all out civil war between the voters and the Superdelegates in our party.
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"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die."
The O'Coilean (O'Collins)
'A great host with whom it is not fortunate to contend, the battle-trooped host of the O'Coileain."
Abraham Lincoln
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
From NPR Radio
"Rosa sat so Martin could walk.
Martin walked so Obama could run.
Obama ran so our children can fly!"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."
Unknown
"Friendship is loving someone no matter what is in their past. It is accepting the fact that they are human and that they have made their share of mistakes over a life time. Trust is being able to tell your friend the most private secret knowing that they will not judge you. A life is not lived well without that one true and trusted friendship."
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
"My job is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable"
Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Will Rogers
"I don't belong to an organized party--I'm a democrat."
President John F. Kennedy, Democrat
“If by a ‘liberal’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people—their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties—someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a ‘Liberal,’ then I’m proud to say I’m a ‘Liberal.’”
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Lora O'Brien
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C. S. Lewis
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