Undemocratic Democrats Prepare the Smoke Filled Rooms

North Star Writers Group ^ | May 6, 2008 | Gregory D. Lee

[Invisigoth]

Remember all the moaning and groaning during the 2000 presidential election when the Democrats accused the Republicans of stealing the election? Remember how lawyers for Al Gore attempted to disenfranchise Floridian U.S. servicemen and women overseas by asking the courts to toss out their absentee ballots? Well, Democratic “superdelegates” could disfranchise half of their own voters this election year.

This summer, almost 800 so-called superdelegates will occupy smoke-filled rooms of cigar bars in Denver as they mull over their choice for the Democrat presidential nominee. Never mind that Barack Obama will in all likelihood have won the majority of votes and elected delegates. This select group of Democratic politicians and DNC members has the ability to trump the will of the voters and instead select Hillary Clinton – the very thing Democrats still claim the Supreme Court did to them in 2000. They didn’t like it then, but they appear more than willing to essentially do the same thing to themselves this summer if the elected delegate count remains close.

The concept of superdelegates trumping the electorate demonstrates Democrats’ inability to govern, their thirst for power and their disdain for the will of the voters. They’ll decide what’s best for their electorate the same way they’ll decide what doctor you will be assigned after they nationalize health care.

[n230099]

It's going to be fascinating to watch but they're going to have to "dump the black guy". He's a train wreck that is still grinding to a halt with a ways to go.

Hillary will be the nominee....I don't know how they do it...but that's what I see must happen.

[pennboricua]

what is most entertaining about this whole fiasco, is that the possibility that Blacks will finally realize which party do not want them to get ahead will become more than obvious.

[Sacajaweau]

They may have to give it to Obama to keep the black vote. The witch never dreamed she'd be up against a black man.

Morality is a strong point of neither and one notices that it has been totally excluded from the Dem criteria.

[johnny7]

“I motion we clear the room before announcing our decision...”

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

It doesn't matter at this point. The Dims know it and don't care. Blacks have been replaced by hispanics, Hillary's trump card for the general election, if she manages to steal the nomination.

[Grut]

For an off-the-wall prediction: if the Dem Powers That Be decide that neither Clinton nor Obama can win and will alienate a major core group, look for them to slip in a Bob Dole-ish party regular who can at least keep the core together while losing. So; female, Black, a party regular: Donna Brazile?

[ricks_place]

Well, Democratic “superdelegates” could disfranchise half of their own voters this election year.

Well, Democratic “superdelegates” already disfranchise ALL of their own voters this election year in Michigan and Florida.

[MarxSux]

“Democratic “superdelegates” could disfranchise half of their own voters this election year.”

There is this absolutely stupid idea floating around ever since 2000 that if you vote and the candidate that you voted for loses the election, you have been ***disenfranchised***. I expected better from the North Star Writers Group.

[Invisigoth]

You expected better because one writer expressed an opinion? NSWG is a newspaper syndicated with a variety of writers - on the right and the left.