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Peace Patriot

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2. War declared in the Democratic Party!
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 07:05 AM
Mar 2016

NY Super Delegates have declared war on their voters!

Even if Sanders were to win the April 19 New York presidential contest, when a whopping 247 delegates are at stake, every single New York superdelegate reached by the Daily News said they would never back the Vermont senator.

“Absolutely not,” Elizabeth Stanley, the chief of staff for Westchester County Rep. Nita Lowey, told the Daily News when asked if she could see “any potential situation at all” resulting in her boss switching her support from Clinton to Sanders.

Hillary Clinton is Congresswoman Lowey’s friend, colleague and her constituent, and she is behind her 100%,” Stanley added.--originally from the NY Daily News


I'd say they are worried, maybe even shaky. To make statements like this, in defiance of the voters who put them in office, before the presidential primary vote has even taken place, before those voters have even voted, to declare war on their own voters on the speculation that they MIGHT go against party stalwarts, is weird. And to say things like "behind her 100%" is kind of like what your boss says the day before she fires you. "I'm behind you 100%, dearie."

Anybody else get this vibe?

100%. Uh-huh.

'YOU! VOTER! DON'T YOU DARE THINK THAT I CAN'T DELIVER YOU TO MY FRIEND HILLARY! WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, ANYWAY, PEON?'

War.

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