Meet the Superdelegates
An inside look at who the superdelegates are and which Democratic candidate they are supporting
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Rush To Judgement
The media and the Clinton camp has done every dastardly deed to try to denounce Barack Obama the candidacy for president. He has proven time and time again that he is up on the issues and that he does want to unite the parties, despite the differences. He's been forthright in his memoirs detailing his life from being raised by his grandmother to his father being black and his mothers own admission of being afraid of blacks. What many people in America fear is change, they complain about the way things are and when there is another road to take instead of the one so many have traveled, they start to back out of what they feel is a commitment to something different. Sure Barack is young, so was JFK, yet there is no difference in the corupt way that the Bush Administration as well as the Clinton and other presidents before them have mislead Americans, kept secrets and lied through their teeth about issues that the Americans in this country didn't know about or found out later. Only in America can we be so easily mislead by small things such as a gas holiday. What kind of holiday is that when after the summer, prices will go back to what they were at first if not even higher. That was all a political ploy and a bunch of lies. That was even better than being caught in the midst of sniper fire. As far a Reverend Wrights comments we can take that with a grain of salt, we could even write them off as a gimmick that maybe the Clinton camp was behind that circus to bolster Hilary's chances and condemn Baracks chances. NO ONE should ever condemn a man for another man's words. We cannot and should not associate someone elses beliefs with another. That's like saying as Americans we all believe and stand by George Bushes stance on the war and we don't. We can say that everyone who is Catholic should leave the Catholic churce due to all the scandal at churches across the country. All we have to do is hold onto our faith, whatever that maybe and not be misled by others who feel that indifference, race, sexual orientation and other propanda define us as human beings. We all make mistakes, and wrong choices, we need to own up to those mistakes, choices/decisions and learn - and then move on - because learning from the choices, good or bad, makes us better human beings.
The right judgement
In 2002, Saddam Hussein provoked this nation in to war with just words - infamously saying, among other things, this will be the "mother of all wars."
In 2008, Rev. Wright's words provoked many Americans in to categorical condemnation though many have some have softened a bit after a month of endless coverage.
In both cases, Obama showed an uncommon ability to judge intent, not just words. Against Saddam, Obama said "Now let me be clear, I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity....But I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors, ...I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda."
On Rev. Wright, Obama saw the big difference in intent between the first endlessly looped sermons and his re-justification of those inflammatory statements to the National Press Club. In the first case, Obama saw that Wright's words were in the context of a larger message about positive transformation to his own congregation. In the second case, he saw that those same statements to a national audience showed a malicious intent "gave comfort to those who prey on hate" and responded quickly.
Today we have more inflammatory leaders, Iran's Ahmadinajad of Iran, N. Korea's Kim Jong Il and even Russia's Putin who are all trying to provoke America in various ways. We need a leader who can judge intent before he commits the country to action or even categorical condemnation. It gives a chance for more sane action on all sides.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Barack_Obama's_Iraq_Speech
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We can do this...
What can we do collectively to encourage the Superdelegates to commit now? There are so many McCain negatives, and we need the money and the focus to make those public NOW, not in September.
There is no reason for this endless contest to continue, unless losing the general election is the goal of the Democratic party.
