Posted by
federal rb on Saturday, March 01, 2008 11:22:57 PM
The Democratic party has a fraudulent righteousness about being the party of the people. Of course the media are duplicitous in their fall-all-over-themselves to be the first one to congradulate the Dems as being the only true party that represents the will of the people. And while we go through this primary season and hearing how the Dems' primary is the best democratic process with their vote apportionment. There has been an education in this so called democratic process.
Superdelegates are party insiders that can vote for whomever they want, whenever they want. Sounds fair right? They also can switch affiliation whenever and as many times that they want. Sounds like repeat voting, right. Something right out of the Richard J. Daley playbook in Chicago. Now the Dems will say that they wanted to avoid the bruising 1980 primary fight between Carter and Kennedy and let the party representatives save the party form inner turmoil and a contested primary. Now it just takes a little perspective to analize the process.
So far in this primary season there has been 19 million plus votes counted just for Clinton and Obama. And that result has yielded 2,272 pledged delegates between them. There has been 437 super delegates that have taken sides already in the primary fight. That means that every super delegate is worth 5 times more than a pledged delegate. Wasn't Bill Clinton complaining in Nevada about making sure that every vote counts the same? Or lets just reverse the math, that means that every pledged delegate is worth one-fifth the vote of a super delegate.
Even during our country's infancy and the attempt to marginalize the southern states voice, the states with slave popuation were counted as three-fifths the vote as non-slave states. And that was called racist in retrospect. What would they call this? There has been much ado about African Americans and their sensitivity to being counted as three-fifth of a white person. Someone should ask an African American how they feel now that their vote counts as one-fifth the vote of a party insider. But of course you won't hear this discussed in the major media. They are too busy lauding evrything the Dems can do for our country (or rather to our country.)