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2.19.2008

 

Dean on superdelegates

It's looking more and more like uncommitted Democratic Party superdelegates around the country will be the ones to decide who wins the party's tight presidential nomination contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Vermont has seven of these annointed souls and we've already reported that six of them are spoken for: Five for Obama and one for Clinton. That leaves just one uncommitted Vermont superdelegate, and that person happens to be Howard Dean, our former governor, a 2004 presidential aspirant and presently chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

Dean is uncommitted for a reason: As chairman, he's got to stay neutral, let the primary season play itself out and hope either Obama or Clinton gets enough delegates to claim the nomination and avoid having the battle drag all the way to the party's national convention. If that happens, the party's chances of winning in November will be badly damaged and Dean will probably get blamed for not figuring out a solution to the whole mess sooner.

The debate on superdelegate decisionmaking is between urging them to reflect the outcome of their state primaries or caucuses, and allowing them to make their pick based on what they think is "best for the party." Wednesday, Dean issued a statement to the Talking Points Memo blog offering his take on the subject. To check out his statement, click HERE.

The key phrase in the statement was his remark that superdelegates should "exercise their best judgment in the interests of the nation and of the Democratic Party."

I saw where some pundit thought his view was somehow an indication he was pulling for Clinton, but there's also been speculation that if he could speak his mind, he'd be for Obama.

What do you think, and what do think will happen -- both in today's contests in Wisconsin and Hawaii, and down the road?

-- Sam Hemingway

Comments:
The dimocrat bosses want Hillary and will get Hillary. They will find something else for Barack to do.
 
They do, eh?

Spinderella, you grow dimmer by the day. It's just a question of who's at the top of the ticket and the clueless cracker vote just ain't gonna be enough to carry the day and nobody else is gonna buy his let's stay in Iraq for 100 years and continue doing what's not working only more so" platform.
 
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"It's not LIKE two retards fighting. It is ACTUALLY two retards fighting!"

Retards, eh? Well aren't you the very picture of pretentious, ignorant trash anonymously chiming in with another of your pathetic attempts trying to pass yourself off as the intellectual, little fella.

Not even close, punk. Not even close.

Dismissed.
 
Anonymous has left a new comment

"It's not LIKE two retards fighting. It is ACTUALLY two retards fighting!"

Retards, eh? Well aren't you the very picture of pretentious, ignorant trash anonymously chiming in with another of your pathetic attempts trying to pass yourself off as the intellectual, little fella.

Not even close, punk. Not even close.

Dismissed.
 
What's the problem, JW?

Is the forced medication making you grumpy?

Just tell the nurses. They'll up your dosage.
 
"What's the problem, JW?

Is the forced medication making you grumpy?

Just tell the nurses. They'll up your dosage."

Right on cue. "Retard." "Forced medication."

As always, thank you for that ignorant trash perspective, shmendrik.

I can always count on the nameless-nitwit likes of you for the ignorant, ill-informed, invertebrate take on the issues of the day.

You bupkis boys can always be counted on to take the high road when ya get called on your ignorant trash and ludicrous claims to be engaged in serious discussion.

As if. The world will watch a walrus play Rach 3 on the piano while winning the Gold in the Men's Olympic Downhill before any of you coalition of the clueless cretins are accused of engaging in serious discussion.

Always a pleasure.
 
I'm going to defend JWCOOP.

People shouldn't call him a retard.

He's a person with special needs and he deserves our understanding.
 
Blog comment strings like this have been detrimental to American civic discourse as some folks view it as an opportunity to say things to and about other people that they would never say in a public setting. Discuss.
 
JW said... "Ya could start buy learning what the hell you're talking about"

JW, nitwit, you could start by learning the correct word in that sentence is "by"
 
Anonymous 1:40, haven't you figured out that typos are the proper subject of stinging criticism only when they're made by someone other than jw?
 
JW - get help.
 
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