Thank you Emanuel Cleaver, for proving the "Super-Delegate disaster" scenario WRONG.

[Bicoastal]

"CNN) — A key Hillary Clinton supporter appeared to be a bit off message during a recent interview with a Canadian radio station.

'If I had to make a prediction right now, I'd say Barack Obama is going to be the next president,' Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver said in a Canadian public radio interview this weekend. 'I will be stunned if he's not the next president of the United States.'"

SNIP

"He also pushed back on the notion Clinton should take her fight for the party's nomination all the way to the August convention — though he acknowledged that is not the position he is supposed to take.

'If I do the party line, I'm supposed to say — and maybe I'll say, just so if anybody hears it they can say well, "Cleaver did the party line before he told the truth" — we believe that a contest going all the way to the convention is good for America.'

But, he added, an actual convention fight would be a 'tragedy of tragedies.'"

I suspect most of her fellow SD's see the race as realistically as he does. If HRC manages to pull out a miracle upset, I'll be happy for her--but Cleaver's words prove to me that there WON'T be a convention fight if the delegates are thinking in terms of what's best for the party, not what's best for their pick for nominee.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Link?

Cleaver is awesome. Great rep.

[merbex]

2. This attitude has to permeate at least 100+ of the superdelegates to

commit to either candidate or the fact remains 100+( give or take a few) sper delegates remaining undeclared arriving in Denver in that "condition" gives us a brokered, deadlocked Convention

[Bicoastal]

4. Assuming it even goes that far.

[merbex]

5. That's the point.... go to demconwatch.blogspot.com

here's the correct page for undeclared supers http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/01/superdelegates-who-havent-endorsed.html

That's a pretty long f**king list and it only takes just barey over a 100 of those named to stay in that "condition" - undeclared - to make a deadlocked Convention with multiple ballots a reality

I don't know who you support, but whomever it is, the process of winning the nomination goes through those people in the link I provided

That's a fact

[RoadRage]

3. I posted this a bit ago... great story (link included)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5341670&mesg_id=5341670

[damntexdem]

6. Neither the Party nor the country needs a SuperdelegateGate!

[grantcart]

7. there are a lot of HRC superdelegates that have made similar comments

http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/2008/03/0324200

U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, one of Washington’s 17 Democratic superdelegates, isn’t ready to shift her allegiance from Sen. Hillary Clinton to Sen. Barack Obama — yet.

But in an interview with The Columbian’s editorial board Monday, she said the candidate with the most pledged delegates at the end of the primary season in late June will have the strongest claim to the party’s presidential nomination.

“I definitely don’t want the superdelegates to be the deciding factor,” she said.

“If we have a candidate who has the most delegates and the most states,” the Democratic party should come together around that candidate, Cantwell said. The pledged delegate count will be the most important factor, she said, because that is the basis of the nominating process.

8_Cantwell-supporting-Clinton--for-now.cfm

[ekwhite]

8. Good for him

I don't really want this to go all the way to the convention, but I certainly see no harm in it playing out through the rest of the primaries. Once all the votes are in, the SD's should declare and get this over with. A nasty convention fight while McCain is coasting to the presidency is not what we want.