Damn, if she doesn't want the people involved, why is it still called the DEMOCRATIC Party?
Thankfully, the first thing Sanders is going to do after he's inaugerated is to clean the rot out of the DNC, starting with Debbie.

Our leaders are conservative DINOs who work for Moneyed Interests and for us they only give lip service & try to give us only one choice for president while pretending she actually represents US. Not Democracy.

The only thing Democratic about these people is the label they use in vain.

I makes me want to go out and get an animated Dino (Flintstones) dinosaur and throw it at em...

Basically acknowledged that it's anti-democratic.

.just saying

More proof that Bernie is needed to clean house. They make his point for him. Hillary is the perfect example of what he/we are fighting against, corporations by enough influence to have a shadow government with tentacles in our media.

I do not choose to live under corporate rule!!!!!!!

Release your Wall Street bank speech transcripts Hillary, show us where you were "tough" on Wall Street!

Looks like Debbie is going scorched earth. Hello 1968.

There's no other way to put it.

BTW, the primary results so far are:

Popular vote count
Bernie 221,276 Hillary 165,299

Number of total delegates
Bernie 44 Hillary 394

Yep. It would be illegitimate.

In Iowa and New Hampshire!!

they're not going to get away with it. They may in fact award her the crown, but she will lose big in the general.

Presidency, house, and senate as many of the democratic base(along with independents and others) will just stay home and not vote. With many leaving the party and becoming independents themselves leaving it in shambles.

Yup. It's scorched earth big time. Which is why I hope saner heads prevail on this one.

If she keeps going scorched earth, she will lose badly in November and take the entire ticket (including superdelegate office holders) down with her.

Because then they will blame the loss on the "purists" of the party.

Then again, there just may not be a party left afterwards.

What a joke!

you and your super cronies can say goodbye to your careers

oh and hello to president trump

or president sanders, if he runs third party which he will have every right to to if they steal the nom from him

idiots...STILL don't know how pissed the people really are.....

They can be voted out if their constituents do not like the way they primary. If a grass roots candidate is an authentic candidate like Bernie we will see super delegates change. Superdelegates however are good safeguards to prevent the Democratic Party from being overrun by some wingnut like Trump. However, you can guarantee if GOP primary goes to convention the establishment i.e. superdelegates on their side will not let Trump come out nominee. So in a sense both parties have safeguards.

or at least that's what they would count on.

...up for reelection in November. We will know in August at the Convention whether they are supporting their constituents or corporate masters. We can always vote their asses out of office.

unfortunately, I live in a GOP district.

And some of the superdelegates are DNC VIPs like party chairs, that may hold local office.

up, it's the corporatista or a Republican.

It's your own grave. Karma is a bitch.

for the Democratic Party. With that in mind, there's really no reason to have superdelegates unless the point is to overturn the will of the majority of the people. When the Republicans have gotten something right - doing away with superdelegates - we really need to examine ourselves. I don't know if this is the first time it's seemed they could throw an election to the person with the least votes, but it ought to be the last.

Few Sanders supporters will vote for her or any downticket Democrats. Call it A Bloody Tuesday In November for the DNC. There won't be much of the party worth saving. A fitting legacy for Clinton and DWS. They'll be forever written in the history books, but not for the reason they hoped.

a nominee, but really you're second class citizens, and only the wealthy and powerful matter in the primary...

When he said this it should have been page 1 news above the fold. They buried it!

No the Bernie Sanders Revolution/McGovern/Movement/anti-establishment Party.

a billionaire could love.

She supported republican incumbents rather than their progressive Democrat challengers.

election result sd you don't like and cheer for a party dictatorship SELECTING the candidate rather that respect the will of the voters?

Why hold elections if we can just have party insiders together with the lobbyists choose the government for the voters? Surely it will save a lot of time and lobbyist money spent to smear ones opponent.

would be a shame if something were to happen to it.

That'd end the party and it's inconceivable. This only emboldens "activists" to vote in the primary, especially young people.

with very high approval ratings

We are going up against that nonsense on the other side.

The McGovern comparisons are getting really old

His henchmen burglarized the Democratic National Headquarters a few months before the 1972 election.

The burglary was back page news until several months after the election when the ties to CREEP were discovered, and Nixons involvement in the coverup.

when the Republicans tried to play the religion card against the Democrats.

I remember the Reverend Billy James Hargis on KTUL-TV (Tulsa, Oklahoma) saying how a vote for Nixon was a righteous vote and a vote for McGovern was a vote for all sorts of bad things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_James_Hargis

It was after Roe v. Wade that the GOP/Religious Right marriage was consummated.

Without support from Independents, young voters, and Bernie supporters who do not come out.

Just curious. We can call her Mondale then.

McGovern lost for a number of reasons, not the least of which was he was running against a crooked incumbent who went so far as to have Democratic National Headquarters burglarized just a few months before the election.

Remember his Myspace page?

The Clinton canp keeps whining about? You be the judge.

... and it's very wise to have them.

I get the felling there is going to be a pretty strong correlation in that due to the way the DLC by invitation only membership worked.

My god, she just sat there and admitted it!

I mean, talk about living on a flying carpet and zooming around in La-La Land.

She has no idea what she just said !

cause. If they put their fingers on the scales, we will have a republican president, and what remains will be a mere husk that once covered a great party.

And I say this as someone who has associated with the Democratic Party since 1978.

is beyond reform and a new party is needed.

Without progressive voters, there would be no Democratic Party.

Wasserman-Schultz, Rahm, Hillary, and the rest of the corporate Dems would have a tough time getting votes as the party of the 1% WITHOUT religious nuts and racists.

...and a tough time getting corporate payola if they are no longer a viable party. They're screwed no matter what. The only question is do they acknowledge the will of the people with grace and integrity, or do they go scorched earth and destroy the party in a "if we can't have it no one can" snit fit? I would hope that the former prevails, but it's looking increasingly like the latter.

You just made me realize this:

Just as the GOP is in a bind because they can't keep their racist base AND hope to attract minorities, so the Democrats are finally getting to the point that they can't keep their Wall Street and corporate fat cat donors AND expect their progressive base to keep voting for "progressively" more corrupt Democrats who make less and less pretense of taking care of the people who put them into office.

Here ya go:

https://timcanova.com/

https://secure.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/42087

https://twitter.com/tim_canova

https://www.facebook.com/TimCanovaForCongress/

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Obviating the need for super delegates to stop BAD things from happening...

This unabashed move to undo President Barack Obama's own safeguards against corruption of the DNC is PROOF that their is no democracy left in the Democratic Party:

that if the will of the people was ignored, and the Super Delegates choose the nominee, that I would seriously question whether or not I would remain in the Party. In fact I would definitely be leaving.

I know Bernie has publicly said he will not run an independent campaign. But if this gets stolen from him through this bullcrap, I hope he changes his mind.

We are not the Party that pulls this nonsense. We once were the party of the people. This is going to get ugly.

I never really understood it until this year with the Iowa business.

Did he have the same obstacles?

Or just more love from the caucuses?

I had been thinking how can this possibly be legal when the Constitution specifically delegates the right to run Presidential elections to the individual states, not to political parties. I found there were many people who believe kicking aside a candidate who prevails via acquiring the most legitimate votes in primary contests to usher in another candidate better suited to there preferences is unconstitutional.

Here is one example:

Superdelgate Intervention Unconstitutional

Even critics of superdelegate deals tend to underestimate the gravity of the issue. In its very essence, the superdelegate system is unconstitutional. It destroys the right of primary voters to choose their own nominee. It offends the principle of one person one vote. In three primary cases (Nixon v. Herndon, 1927, Nixon v. Condon, 1932, Smith v. Allwright, 1944) the Supreme Court affirmed that the right to vote in a primary (a right which includes the right to be counted and respected), is protected by the Constitution. Officials cannot legally circumvent the vote. These were discrimination cases, but the arguments apply directly to the superdelegate situation in the Democratic primary.

Up to a point, a political party is master of its own house. But no party, or group within a party, can legally tamper with primary results. In Terry v. Adams (1953), the Court ruled against the "Jay Bird Association," a group of powerful white Democrats who tried to create a private enforcement process within the Democratic primary. Justice Clark ruled that "any part of the machinery for choosing officials becomes subject to the Constitution's restraints."

The superdelegate system flouts the very purpose for which primaries were conceived. "Fighting" Bob LaFollette, the Wisconsin progressive who organized the first primaries in 1903, hated boss-controlled conventions. The aim of the primaries is to remove the nominations from the hands of professionals and the wealthy donors whom professionals obey. The superdelegate issue should not be resolved through deals or negotiations. The integrity of elections is not negotiable. The superdelegate system deserves to be abolished.

One person. One vote. No super tampering to flout the will of the people and their Constitutional rights in this economic, revolutionary Presidential election.

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