HRC would have been nominated without the superdelegates...that proves we don't NEED them.

[Ken Burch]

193. I raise my real world experience because you keep falsely claiming I don't live there.

And you keep implying that I've never worked on real campaigns for real candidates.

If you're willing to stop accusing me of making up my actual personal political history(and cease doing that to anyone else) stop claiming I don't live in the real world(and stop doing THAT to anyone else), I'm willing to stop defending myself against what amounts to character assassination.

Just accept that we both live in the real world, that it's legitimate to disagree with you about what is possible in the real world based on real world experience, AND that you don't need to personally disparage me or anyone else to validate your own sense of self-worth.

You and I are not in personal competition and there is room for both of us in the real world.

The unreconstructed school bully act is getting old and impresses no one.

What I suggested on the superdelegate issue wouldn't stop anyone from campaigning for a candidate. They could still give speeches and go door-to-door and hold fundraisers. ALL it would do would be require them, AS CONVENTION DELEGATES, to remain unpledged until the will of the voters had shaken out. I never proposed barring the CBC or any other superdelegates from campaigning as individuals for candidates.

And it would strengthen the superdelegates, ESPECIALLY the CBC, if the candidates knew that, in the event of a deadlock, they would be able to negotiate with candidates in exchange for their support. They could have asked HRC to agree to include the BLM positions on criminal justice and anti-oppression action in the platform, and won her support for introducing real, large-scale programs to help their constituents. Under this system, their early pledges to the eventual nominee got nothing for their constituents...no significant concessions were ever made to them in exchange for that support.

As to Sheila Jackson Lee...why are you still making an issue of what happened with her in 2008? Why does that even still matter? I had nothing to do with anyone treating her that way and I think we can assume SHE has let it go by now. More to the point, why are you still angry that Obama was nominated then and HRC wasn't? It's not as though anything was worse for the party as a result.