Black Delegates Under Pressure To Switch To Obama

Well, of course, it's always "too late to change the game." And if you can't see how intimidating and threatening people like this is wrong regardless of who does it, then you really are too biased towards Obama to discuss this reasonably.

Obama is not coercing Super Delegates. That would be their voting constituents who do not support the Clintons' Political Machine. These Super Delegates owe their scepters to the voting mob who could turn on these career politicians during the next election cycle. Nothing is stopping them from supporting Hillary. It's just that, for too many of them, that would be political suicide since their supporters like Obama. These conflicted Delegates are simply faced with the voters' cry for change beginning with them next election cycle, when their constituents vote someone else into their offices, recalling this business.

The only thing Obama has done was sell his political wares more effectively than Hillary did. This is officially chess, not checkers.

I didn't say HE was.

No, you said, " I think if this is indeed going on that Obama should condemn his supporters for it." I'm saying that there is no reason why Obama should condemn the Super Delegates for the dilemma with which they are faced. It is not his fault that their constituents have made clear that supporting Hillary will cost the Delegates constituents support later. They knew the job was hard when they signed on. What they obviously did not know was that Obama was more popular in their districts than the Clintons. Had these supporters been Clintonistas, no such apology or renunciation would ever be demanded. But they aren't. These voters support Obama, and hail from a growing young demographic that will be around a lot longer than the politicians who too early promised Hillary their support as Super Delegates.

If this is true, it is unethical, sexist, and the best example of reverse-racism in America today.
Either way, look at the cloud surrounding Obama.
He did this to himself.

Vote Hillary!!!

Jan, with the respect you deserve from me, and using your own words : you really are too biased AGAINST Obama to discuss this reasonably.

No, I'm not. I already stated in the original entry here that if anyone can supply an article showing that Clinton supporters are intimidating and threatening superdelegates to go with her because she is a woman to put it here.This is an article that was posted on CNN, and actual representatives have claimed that they are being intimidated and threatened by Obama supporters to go with him because he is black.That's not my accusation and I didn't make it up. I can absolutely discuss this topic in relation to it being wrong in PRINCIPLE regardless of who does it but it is obvious some cannot. So with all due respect to you, if you have anything to share about any other candidate currently doing this or have something to show that this report is false, please post it here so it can be discussed.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8762.html

Matter of fact, I put "clinton threatening superdelegates" into a search engine, and all I got were articles about black delegates stating they are being intimidated, harrassed, and being called "Uncle Toms" for not switching to Obama.
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Excerpt:

Black backers steadfast for Clinton

By: Josephine Hearn
Feb 28, 2008 06:38 PM EST
Updated: February 29, 2008 05:56 PM EST
African-American superdelegates said Thursday that they’ll stand up against threats, intimidation and “Uncle Tom” smears rather than switch their support from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to Sen. Barack Obama.

“African-American superdelegates are being targeted, harassed and threatened,” said Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II (D-Mo.), a superdelegate who has supported Clinton since August. Cleaver said black superdelegates are receiving “nasty letters, phone calls, threats they’ll get an opponent, being called an Uncle Tom.

“This is the politics of the 1950s,” he complained. “A lot of members are experiencing a lot of ugly stuff. They’re not going to talk about it, but it’s happening.”

After civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) switched his support from Clinton to Obama earlier this week, other black superdelegates have come under renewed pressure to do a similar about-face. A handful have bowed to the entreaties in recent weeks, including Georgia Rep. David Scott, but many say they are steadfast in their support for Clinton and resent strong-arm tactics to make them change.

Rep. Diane E. Watson (D-Calif.), a black lawmaker and Clinton backer, said the intense lobbying for Obama would not alter her vote.

“I’ve gotten threatening mail,” Watson said. “They say, ‘Your district went 61-29 Obama and you need to change.’ But I don’t intimidate. I can hold the ground. … I would lose my seat over my principles.”

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Are they lying?