Posted on 06/05/2008 5:12:02 AM PDT by Man50D
The truth is even the popular vote delegates can legally switch.
If the SDs switch often enough they might wind up with STDs.
Ubama’s Presidency is a given thing with the MSM, just like global warming, Darwinism/the theory of evolution, etc. Why are you trying to steal their thunder by pointing out silly little things like FACTS?!? ;-)
Who ever is choosen needs to see signs at all major events reading:
SELECTED, NOT ELECTED
I won’t believe Hillary drops out until the November election is over. These ARE the Clintons, you know...
I love the 1624.5 figure. *LOL* When I see that 1/2 man walking around, I’ll know it’s a Hillary delegate.
with the superdelegates in play, i guess we can say that Barack was “selected” not “elected”, can’t we?!!! ha!
But the Superdelegates are all long-term Democrat Party operatives and insiders! If you can’t trust a long-term Democrat Party operative or insider, who can you trust?!?
The only reason Hillary Clinton is promoting her popular vote argument is so the Superdelegates have some political cover if it becomes necessary to knife Obama in the back. If for some reason yet to be determined (or revealed), Obama becomes suddenly radioactive, the Superdelegates can switch their votes, all the while intoning seriously about “heeding the will of the American People...”
The truth is even the popular vote delegates can legally switch.
The superdelegates have become a sort of oracular fog. They “know” the answer, but they ain’t talking.
People say they are afraid of a floor fight, but this is party politics at its best. To hell with the bloodless coronations that pass for conventions. It will be great to see a convention like in the days before TV. AND it will be a powerful civics lesson for the kids.
My understanding is that the pledged delegates, awarded during the primaries, are not supposed to switch until after the first ballot.
I think superdelegates can do absolutely anything they want (although they have to worry about their repuation if they break a promise to a powerful politician).
In any case, do we think that a superdelegate will be arrested and face jailtime for "voting wrong" on the first ballot?? The outcome will not be known until August, no matter what the media tells us.
Didn’t the media do a similar thing with the McCain selection? Since McCain was the most left leaning liberal of the Republican candidates, the MSM biased the news to report things favorable toward McCain, while under reporting positions of other genuinely conservative candidates. Basically conservative Republicans got blindsided by the media so now we have the presumptive nominee, McCain.
Its a simple strategy, declare a winner, and the win is self-fulfilling. Even the dems are being blindsided by the media, and most don’t realize what’s happening.
I need to incorporate that into a tagline...
Oops, that should read “Barack and Michelle”, LOL
Actually “Barack & Obama” sounds like an ambulance chasing law firm, where’s the Breck Girl?!?
Not only that, the superdelegates themselves are still switching.
In some cases, they have been forced to step down because of their own ongoing scandals.
In other cases, like one in Ft. Worth in Texas, the “rules” have things like a racial quota. I’ll post the newspaper article later today.
The names of the superdelegates themselves are in flux.
Pelosi is trying to force them to LOCK in this bunch WHILE Obama reportedly has a “pledged” majority.
Obama was selected not elected by the supposed DemocratIC party.
All liberals are just glorified ambulance-chasers anyway--they prey on the misery and discontent of other people in order to get wealth and power for themselves.
Andy: Is a readin here jus the other day wheres theres somethin like four hundred needy boys in this county alone, or one and a half boys per square mile.Opie: There is?
Andy: There sho' is.
Opie: I never seen one, Pa.
Andy: Never seen one what?
Opie: A half boy.
Andy: Well, its not really a half a boy, its a ratio.
Opie: Horatio who?
Andy: Not Horatio a ratio. Its mathematics. Rithmetic. Look, now, Opie. Just fergit that part of it. Fergit the part about the half a boy.
Opie: Its purty hard to fergit a thing like that, Pa.
Andy: Well, try!
Opie: Poor Horatio...
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If you recall the Obama team juggling the seating of a mixed race audience to get some more white people in there and some asians in camera shot too, it is understandable that the delegates must lock in at some point so that Michelle can get the seating arangement finished by the convention.
“Pelosi is trying to force them to LOCK in this bunch WHILE Obama reportedly has a pledged majority.”
She seems to have a pretty big stake in this. How likely is it that she simply will not allow another woman to be more powerful than she is?
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