I'm trying to imagine what the video would be like. It would be hard to do. People talking about the superdelegates job to act in the best interests of the party, then footage of the endless Dem primary, the negatives rising, the free ride for John McCain--ending with the quote about Dems snatching defeat from the jaws of victory...

You hit the nail on the head, Jed Report. These idiots really are unfit to govern. The wounds are 100% self-inflicted.

But in the end, isn't this exactly what everyone is expecting from the Democratic party? They are so afraid of winning that they'll lose, every single time (unless a Ross Perot comes along).

A minor quibble though. Don't blame the media. They are just doing their job. Perhaps you just forgot that the media's job is not to inform the public, let alone in a fair and impartial manner. Their job is to make money.

Democralypse Now, indeed.

I'm seeing less and less of a difference between McCain and Clinton now. If the superdelegates overturn the will of the voters and nominate Hillary, I will not support her in the general election. What would be the point?

I wish it would matter. But she will basically be continuance of Republican policies, with the only difference being that the disaster she helps bring about will be blamed on Democrats.

Dems and liberals need to take the longer view, and remain patient, if Hillary wins the nomination. She needs to be rejected, even though that means letting a hypocritical jackass like McCain take power. It does the country and the Democratic Party no good to basically have a Lieberman-like entity running things.

WELL DONE. THE SD's have managed to once again destroy the Democrats chances.

I may sound like the devil's advocate for saying this, but I think most of the remaining "undecided" superdelegates are probably favoring Obama and waiting for him to put Senator Clinton away with some more decisive victories close to the end of the primary process, so that they can avoid the accusation of trying to "fix" the election before citizen voters have had their say. Hillary is already trying to claim that Senator Obama and DNC Chairman Howard Dean are colluding to disenfranchise the voters in Florida and Michigan. By rolling out the final superdelegates slowly, Obama can keep a sense of momentum without making himself a target for further "disenfranchisment of voters" accusations. I suspect he will keep rolling them out 2 a day until he is caught up with Clinton, and hang there with a tie until she drops out or until the final contests are over, at which point the endorsements will start coming around 5-10 a day until they are done. Hillary is probably keeping a few in her back pocket as well, and now releasing them to try to counter Barack's momentum. We'll see how long she can keep this up.

Excellent post, and I agree with everything you said. I hate to bring Hardball into this, but I am too mad to let it go. Chris Matthews just talked about how Wright's words were his words even when Obama was sitting in his pew, so how could he stay in the church?

I would ask Chris how he has stayed in the Catholic church while its administration - ALL THE WAY UP TO THE POPE -- ignored the disgusting travesties that occurred to its young boys for generations.

If you have to leave a church because you disagree with parts of it, no one would belong to any church. My advice is --> take a hint! They are all frauds, but that is beside the point.

How can any Catholic say that Obama is wrong for staying in a church when the pastor says things he doesn't agree with? Of course hypocrisy is not exactly a new phenomenon among the "faithful," which by definition means, "I believe something because I want to and I don't let reality get in my way."

...superdelegates will stage a coup against the voters.

What "coup"? The SDs are voters too.

Blaming anyone at this point just looks like defensiveness to the people we need to vote for Obama, the people in the middle twenty percent. We need a more positive and aggressive approach to the problem of attack politics. See my current post, In Search of a Statesman to Challenge Undermining Political Attacks.

Don't blame the supers, they have a good excuse, their kids haven't been able to convince them yet.

But, I do agree, they should all announce for Hillary tomorrow, and put Barack out of his misery.

Can't you see how he is in agony because of this Wright business, brought upon him by that dastardly media?

I mean he is going down the tubes, hanging on to an anchor, that for 20 years he believed was a life raft.

I was one of the cheer leaders proclaiming that the remaining states should get their say and be allowed to vote before intervention by the super delegates. I'm not so sure that is a good thing at this point. It seems to me, even after the remaining nine states vote, that the pledged delegate difference will remain the same--Obama will be ahead. Whereas it is true that the DNC rules allow the supers to vote their conscience, they'd better have a damn good reason to overturn the decisions of the states in this matter. Obama deserves the nomination. He has taken a considerable licking over Jeremiah Wright, but I believe that particular line of attack has run its course. It may have been potent in October in the general, but it has been largely neutralized in the primary. We can be thankful for that. Hillary's argument that Obama hasn't been properly vetted is also neutralized. Obama is seasoned and ready to go. Any further in-fighting at this juncture insures only one thing--a victory by John McCain. For the good of the party, the supers should do their thing by May the tenth. This is, consequently, the date Obama intends to unleash his Fifty State strategy. We need to consolidate behind Obama, and the sooner the better.