Right As Usual

Hillary has just managed to get Michigan & Florida's full delegates restored. Is that a problem for Obama? Oh, NO, because: The credentials committee's work is expected to win ratification by the whole convention Monday. Florida has 211 delegates, including superdelegates, and Michigan has 157. Both states are expected to be battlegrounds in the November election. Restoring their voting rights increases the total number of delegate votes at the convention to 4,419. It will take 2,210 delegates to win the nomination. Obama ended the primaries with a 365-delegate lead over Clinton. Reinstating the Florida and Michigan delegates will not affect that lead because Obama has more endorsements from the states' superdelegates. Mercy me, he has the Superdelegate Endorsement! Like that can't change (and did, in his favor, during the primaries, when he seemed unstoppable). Lemme see, 211 (FL) + 157 (MI) = 366, by my count (of course, I'm just a women - you know we don...

Let me get this straight: This is a symbolic gesture - hey, Lady, you lost! Does anyone else think the Clintons have another agenda? Maybe one involving superdelegates being swayed to vote for another candidate, one who has shown that she can win the all-important blue collar white man vote. To do that, enough people have to either switch votes, or abstain on the first ballot. Could Hillary & Bill persuade delegates to grant that little favor? I think so. They campaigned for enough Democrats, they are owed favors by enough people, and, I'm guessing, they have enough dirt on enough people, that a little favor like that seems to be OK. Obama better watch his back. He thinks he's a strategist. He's a babe in the bouncy seat. Who's about to get dumped out.

These aren't random street accidents.  They are targeted killings of superdelegates. I find it disturbing that so little attention is being paid to this. Blogged with the Flock Browser