Spineless. Truly and thoroughly spineless.

Jay beat me to it, but yeah, spineless as a jellyfish. Octopus even. Hmm, sea sponges have more backbone. I don't even think they have a recessive gene in their entire DNA that would possibly lead to vertebrae for future generations of their offspring. Pathetic creatures, these last holdouts.

Are these people in a choir or something? WTF? Can't they make up their minds on their own..not everyone has to endorse one person or at one time.

Remind me why we have superdelegates? Apparently it was just so bigwigs could have a guaranteed junket to the convention without having to bother with getting elected as a delegate.

Heads will explode when she is the VP.

I have never seen the loser in a race get this much out of it.

Goddamn

Just when I'm feeling that hope that Obama brings to people again.

Clinton set to concede delegate race to Obama...

This is bullshit. There are just as many supers who know that Clinton as VP hurts the Dems chances.

My God, no wonder the Repubs look down on us. Clinton needs to support Obama regardless. He shouldn't have to give in to her for that support. It should be a given.

Uh, there's ALREADY been public superdelegate pressure for an Obama-Clinton unity ticket.

People wonder why the Democrats are a running joke in public opinion, well here's the reason for that. The Supers are gutless cowards. All those years of triangulation under Bill Clinton rubbed off I guess.

What morons. The superdelegates' job is to vote for a nominee. The nominee's job is to select a VP. What's so hard to understand about that?

How about you vote how you're state voted? or your constituents? I just do not understand how anyone can NOT have their mind made up at this point.

SERIOUSLY.

Obama's all but officially the nominee, how hard is this? He's heading the DNC fundraising.

FYI. I am not saying they should all break for Obama, though I'd love that.

Oh, and no Clinton for VP. No joint ticket. We need one President, not two.

Terry McAuliffe was just on TV pushing back against the AP story by saying she will absolutely NOT concede tonight and that is not what she will talk about in her speech and how many popular votes she has won. He says Obama does not have the numbers and will not have them tonight.

Don't know if it has been counted officially, but I just read in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch that State Rep. Maria Chappelle-Nadal is set to endorse Obama today.

You have got to admit Hillary's supporters are committed and numerous. Obama has to treat them with kid gloves. The senators need to get along with both candidates and their supporters.

What troubles me is that Obama seems to have taken the last few primaries off. He should have sprinted to the finish line. Instead he lost focus and ignored Hillary. Hillary's downward skid began when she started acting like the presumptive nominee. The last few weeks Obama has suffered from the same attitude. The lesson Obama should draw from this is never stop fighting until the fight is officially over.

I think his campaign organization needs to do a little retooling.

Wouldn't it be great if, at the big rally tonight (in the very place where the GOP convention will be held), Obama appeared with his VP choice?

That would certainly bring the primary season to a close.

For the love of God, Superdelegates, put an end to this drama. Once again, we look like a bunch of inept, disorganized losers.

That is actually sop in primary elections. Once you have it locked up you don't want to take the hit that you strongly fought for a state and lost. Also, in this situation you don't want to keep attacking the clintons because you don't want to further piss off her constituancy. It's just sop.

how worthless are these remaining superdelegates?

in short: if you're an undeclared superdelegate that doesn't have to be, you're part of the greater Democratic Party problem. you're effectively a Republican enabler. grow a pair.

Now Ickes and Wolfson are on TV denying this story.

They suggest a unity ticket because it keeps them from having to make a choice. As pointed out upthread, they're spineless. It's nothing more complicated than that. Once Obama hits the number necessary, they can safely stop vacillating.

Super-delegates your days are numbered. I hope you enjoyed your status this year. It's gonna be your last.....

I'm writing the DNC after this election is wrapped up. I suggest we all do the same.

From a Clinton supporter:

Congrats to all the Obama supporters. You've all been so magnaminous in victory.

But seriously, Clinton still has the support of a big chunk of the democratic party. How do you expect to rally any of them to your cause by treating them like slime?

The gutless wonders in the Senate.
No wonder nothing has changed in Iraq.
These are our "leaders."

I thought this was to be the Obama's big super-delegate roll-out day. It's now after 11:30 EST and nothing is happening. Today Obama has garnered 1 delegate -- count em -- and the Senate undecideds have resolved in solemn assembly to sit on their hands till god knows when. Looks like this will not be Obama's big night after all -- especially if, as seems increasingly likely, Hillary wins South Dakota and comes close in Montana. The MSM are going to have a field day with those results as Obama addresses a huge crowd about how victory is just around the next corner, or two, or three. Of course, there will be a parcel of endorsements after the polls close, but they probably won't be enough to get Obama over the top. Wednesday morning everyone is going to find themselves scratching their heads. Naturally Hillary will make the most of it, the undeclared supers will continue to invite one another to go first (after you; no after you; no, please, after you), and then we'll find pushing into Thursday trying to coax ten or so miserable delegates out of their holes. What a triumph!

In other news, Salazar would like to know if he's still got time to put some money on the Giants, who he thinks may cover the spread against the Patriots.

God, Ken Salazar is annoying. The man couldn't decide what to order at a hotdog cart unless three people ordered the same thing first, and one of them was a Republican.

What the hell are these people doing? It's over. Get on board. Worried about Hillary's feelings, get out and stay neutral, let the grown ups get on with it. Biden? Harkin? Webb? Get the hell on with it.

I guess poll-driven politics is alive and well. Perhaps some of these Senators will feel free to endorse in Nov. after Obama wins the General, or they may keep their powder dry until 2009 or 2010 when they can see what his approval rating is. Gutless wonders who will stand up for nothing. On a happier note, it appears the House is falling in line (thank you Nancy). As an aside, I'm flashing back to "Sunset Blvd." and a turbaned Hillary watching old movies of the Clinton White House years alone in a darkened room, saying "I'm ready for my close-up, America!"

Well I'll give Salazar a call today. I have never counted on him for much in CO.

I can't believe what is happening today. The party is clearly divided but Hillary on the ticket ends the question for me. I can't vote for the Clintons.. I won't vote for McCain either. This is why I have had sympathy for the Clinton supporters who said they couldn't vote for Senator Obama... I think we have to vote our hearts and our conscience. I can't lift a finger to give the Clintons any power... For me it would feel like a vote for George Bush. McCain too... so I would be left without a ticket to support unless someone else decides to run. The republicans will have fun running against the Clintons though... If this is a forced ticket... , ... right now I want to go to sleep and wake up to find this was all a dream.

So much drama.....2 last contests....tapes about to be released.....trial about to be settled.....oh so much heat......Senators waffling......money flowing this kitchen is so hot......the bus running over everyone. This is great. The convention is coming soon. This is just beginning. Are we having fun yet.

I hope this primary campaign isn't setting a precedent for campaigns to come. Seriously, we need some re-working of the rules.

Spineless! Agree completely.
Superdelegates want all the authority and none of the responsibility; all the medals without the soldiering. Most have known since at least NH
whom they preferred but were too afraid of ticking off this or that sub-group. I support Hillary and to watch her "supers" suddenly discover something that just couldn't be resisted - always something "moral or in the best interests of the party or nation or unity or........" when it was always, "who's winning?" before ditching her might have been nauseating were it not so predictable.
If they are rubber stamps of the primary vote then they are unnecessary; if they won't dare override the primary season plurality delegate count then they are useless.

Regardless of which side of the debate you've been on, I think we can agree that superdelegates have been nothing but an irritant best done away with in 2012

It seems the American people want Hillary...if the votes mean anything.....it's at least a 50/50 split.

Is it fair to assume that most of the remaining undeclared super-delegates are Clinton supporters? Either that or some have tenuous holds on their elected seats and don't want to piss off the Hillary base and possibly have them stay home next time they run.

Regarding the Veep pick:

Al Giordano at The Field reported on May 22 that Clinton had asked and Obama had turned her down.

He's generally struck me as very well wired, so I'm pretty confident of the accuracy of his report.

http://ruralvotes.com/thefield/?p=1248

"they always walk on eggshells, even when they are knifing each other in the back."

Perfectly said.

Very disheartening news. This strikes me as much more harmful to Obama's November chances than anything the Clintons have said or done in the last two months. If I were the Republicans, I'd be all over this. I watched the MSNBC morning program ("Morning Joe") this morning, and a good number of the questions to Obama Campaign people were directed to this issue: why haven't more of the undeclared Superdelegates 'declared' for Obama? Did this suggest lack of support within the Party. Perhaps; more so, it suggests a lack of courage, as a number of the above comments speak to.

That's scary. Plus I didn't see anything about her conceding in the story.