How many of you know what a “super delegate” is? The Democrat party has about 800 of them, and they and not the voters in the respective primaries and caucuses which have been held to date may decide who their presidential delegate will be.

They are not accountable to anyone, and many are just congressmen, party leaders and even an ex-president. As close as the Democrat race is now, it is entirely possible that these people may make the decision based not on the will of the electorate but rather on their own personal preferences.

This opens the door for good, old-fashioned smoky back room politics in which the Clintons are well versed. According to two of the super delegates who were interviewed recently, the Clintons are already pressuring them for their support. This means that even if senator Obama comes into the convention with more delegates and more popular votes, he could lose the nomination.

Of course the opposite could also be true but the Clintons have a distinct advantage with more experience in the world of down-and-dirty politics. It really makes little difference to me personally who wins or how they do it, but fair is fair, and this system is not.

I happen to like Sen. Obama on a personal level, even though I think he is dead wrong about some things, especially the War on Terror. I just believe that if he is in reality the choice of the people of his party he should have a chance to compete for the office of president and not be cheated out of that opportunity by sleazy politics.

Gordon E. Skeels,
Madera

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