In the sense of "we're supposed to work with these guys", the Hillbot at TalkLeft.com reveals a dirty little secret...Obama's wins are evidence of a system run amok, and Superdelegates are designed to fix it all just for you lil ignorant folks:
Superdelegates were intended to act as brakes on a system run amok. That's what we have here, and it will be further derailed if rumors about only seating half of Florida's delegates are true.
Now, what could be "running amok" about a system where a candidate gathers votes and gains the nomination? Oh, that candidate's not a Clinton. And caucuses don't count (as much)!! After the jump, we'll find
that the "system" that is supposedly "running amok" is only doing so because of the writer's idea that Florida should be seated. Since the rules expressly forbade MI and FL from holding their primaries and having 'em count, what is running amok is the insistence that the rules be flouted.
Thus in one way I agree with Hillbot Jeralyn Merritt.
The superdelegate can address the real problem. The glaring opportunism in flouting the rules by the Clinton camp. Thus stand behind the rules, people.
Presumably Ms. Merritt approves in retrospect of the superdelegates crushing Gary Hart's campaign in 1984 so Walter (Mr. Excitement) Mondale could go on to a....crushing defeat.
Boy it would just go a lot more easier if you people would just let the SDs do all the work. They get nothing for their trouble either, you undeserving gits! Or
as Ms. Merritt says "It's up to the superdelegates now to put on the brakes."
Discuss.