Jason Linkins via HuffPo on Superdelegates: "Sanders & his supporters were right in the first place"

[Miles Archer]

Here’s DNC Rules Committee co-chair James Roosevelt Jr. explaining in 2010 why the DNC opted to retain the superdelegates (emphasis mine):

“People ask: isn’t it enough for folks to have floor privileges and a hotel room and not have an actual vote?” says rules-committee co-chair James Roosevelt Jr., a grandson of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. “The answer is: what you’re doing is creating two classes of delegates, people with the vote and people without the vote. Clearly, the people at the grassroots level should be the predominant voice. But if you don’t give elected officials a real voice, they are basically second-class citizens.”

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None of this makes the superdelegate super-structure a worthy thing to continue, but for this primary season, it will remain in place. So if he wants superdelegates to support him, he needs to come up with some answers.

Over the course of many months, the Sanders campaign and his supporters have shifted from critiquing the superdelegates as a semi-corrupt and elitist practice, to mounting a belated charm-slash-aggro offensive to cajole their support. Sanders and his supporters were right in the first place! Alas, now they need to win a primary.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-superdelegates_us_56fe938ae4b0daf53aef75b1

[Land Shark]

1. One can oppose supers, but they won't change for this election. I see no contradiction whatsoever.

[JonLeibowitz]

3. So few people understand this, they just like to imagine hypocrisy. I think it is projection.

[CorporatistNation]

2. Super Delegates Are A CORPORATIST Tool To Choreograph Candidate Selection Process

to meet Establishment candidate choice selection according to the wishes of the Powers that Be..

[2banon]

4. Bingo!

[CalvinballPro]

5. Desperate time, desperate measures. Nothing those who actually know history haven't seen before. nt