This is where Shuler provided himself cover. He is a freshman Democrat congressman in a highly Republican, and highly white Appalachia, part of NC.

Any uncommited Superdelegate who talks to the press other than to endorse is asking for trouble. for the next week or so.

Works for me.

That's straight up good party politics.

And that's how it should be- our elected officials are supposed to be answerable to the voters who put them there.

Smart man.

LOL - David Schuster on MSNBC just reiterated that Clinton will need 75% of the remaining pledged delegates (and added that she has not come anywhere near that all primary season) and 70% of the remaining superdelegates - not going to happen.

On the April 27 edition of CNN's Sunday Morning, National Public Radio political editor Ken Rudin, during a discussion about the Democratic presidential primary race, stated: "[L]et's be honest here, [Sen.] Hillary Clinton is Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. She's going to keep coming back, and they're not going to stop her." In response, co-host T.J. Holmes said: "What, Ken?" Rudin replied: "Well, we'll figure that out, there's a lot of ways to imagine that." Rudin returned to the analogy later, stating of Clinton, "[T]here may be a lot of pressure on her from the party bigwigs, whoever they are, to say, look, it's time to go, but she'll say, look, I'm in it until the end. I expect her to be in until the end, as Glenn Close was."

Leave?

No way, I was joking.

Lighten up, now the fun starts.

Now he actually has to lead.

Not with words but actions.

Time to step up and be a leader.

If the guy wants to vote for Hillary, he should just do it and stand by his convictions. He should communicate his reasons explicitly and then hope for the best. I support his ability to vote his will.

Eric, it's an interesting story, but why the pretense in the final sentence that there's still a race going on?

all clintons got now is bluffing.

Here come the ones who are not scared

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/obama-announces-3-superdelegates/

Superdelegates voting for Clinton will not have problems as long as Obama wins. If Clinton wins, she stole the nomination from the voters and that will anger African-Americans.

Now is this reverse racism? Nope, doesn't work that way. Consider the following "veil of ignorance" test for justice:

1. The primary concern for a group of voters is persistent racism against them, formerly very overt, now somewhat covert.

2. One candidate has the greatest potential to start racial healing.

Would not the the voters in 1 overwhelmingly support the candidate in 2? Should they not? Were we all ignorant of our race, but understood racism, would we not say the fair thing to do in general is elect the candidate in 2? Yes we would.

This doesn't quite work with sexism. Try it out. But you can also see why some Clinton supporters support their candidate fervently, even irrationally (to some here).

I want to know how he's going to tell Dale Jr. he's supporting Hillary?

BTW the district Brad Miller represents went for Obama around 60-40.

Actually, Shuler intended to endorse Obama, but Hillary intercepted it.

This is really simple, Brad.

Obama is more electable than Hillary. Hillary can't win the black vote, Obama CAN win the white vote.

There, problem solved.

DREAM TICKET! DREAM TICKET! DREAM TICKET!

For a VP, there is nobody who can do as much for Barack Obama as Hillary can, she is the best attack dog in the business, he can stay above the fray and she can attack. Between the demographics that she attracts and the demographics he attracts they will be UNBEATABLE. Its such an obvious unifying solution.

Who better to have as your attack dogs than Hillary and BIll, there you get the REAL two for one.

Lets UNITE this part NOW with the DREAM TICKET.

And all you haters out there... if not Hillary for VP then WHO??? Wes Clark? Ha -he'll lose Richardson the 'baseball pro'?

Who??

I know Gore doesn't want to endorse anybody, but you'd've thought he'd've at least commented on the gas tax rebate boondoggle, wonder why he didn't (or maybe he did and I missed it) . . .

I am sticking to my prediction that I made in March. Senator Obama will pick Governor Ted Strickland of Ohio to be his running mate.

He needs to put Ohio in play, and he also needs someone with executive and blue collar issues experience. Governor Strickland fits the bill, unless he has some skeletons in his closet that the vetting procedure uncovers.

"Content of their character and not the color of their skin"

What we have is a toxic attitude from both black voters and elected representatives now too. Decades of civil rights progress through away. This is affirmative action taken to the extreme. A sad day for America.

we really have to begin knocking this tone off. if some hardcore clinton supporters will not support obama no matter what the consequences, then so be it. but this tone, triumphant and arrogant, is not helping us at all.

we are all from the same party. we believe in the same things. the other side believes the exact opposite. john mccain is going to ruin this country if he gets the opportunity.

we're better than this. we're liberal. we're compassionate. i know as much as anybody how frustrating and upsetting this nomination process was. there have been numerous times that i have lost my patience with clinton supporters and have said some things - right here on these pages - that were insulting and immature.

but not anymore. open up those arms, people. if we're rejected by other so-called liberals, then so be it. but there are many characteristics that seperate us from them. one of those is our basic respect of humanity. republicans call names and point fingers and trade wild accusations.

we're better than that. let's show it.

uh, Mr Miller, you do it the way you are telling women you are backing Obama? Why not tell them to wait 50 more years - just as they had to wait for the vote. And then, pat them on their pretty little heads and say it has nothing to do with sexism..

Oh, and send in your membership to Citizens United, Not Timid.

Oh yes, Idiot Shuster that moron who goes on TV and makes a fool out of himself. Tweety Matthews and Obamaman would be so proud.