Is anyone besides me tired of Obama surrogates threatening super delegates? On Meet The Press today Obama spokesperson, former Sen. Bill Bradley, basically threatened super delegates to support Obama ... or else face a challenger in their next election.This is not the first time I've heard this threat.
It seems the Obama camp thinks super delegates should "follow the will" of the voters in their respective states. If Obama won the most pledged delegates in a state, then all the super delegates in the state should automatically support him.
If they don't, the person could face a challenger in their next contest.
When questioned by Rep. Nita Lowey about whether Sens. Kennedy and Kerry should "switch" their support to Sen. Clinton, since she won Massachusetts, Bradley offered a telling response. He basically said they should go ahead and vote the way THEY wanted to because even if they were challenged, who could beat them?
This is an interesting thought process in an age of "new politics" being touted by Sen. Obama.
Obama claims to be the candidate of "change" -- which he says includes how we do politics in this country, yet his surrogates are playing politics as usual. So which is it Senator?
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