... such as the Ferraro fiasco have really left me wondering where the supposed grownups are.  I expected better leadership from the party elders than letting these situations between the campaigns (and their supporters) fester.

McCain should be their target, not a circular firing squad of Democrats.

I'm hoping that the Superdelegates will think about the only thing that's truly important to most of them.

Getting reelected.

For most of them, Obama makes that happen much easier than Clinton does.  And gives them more political power by increasing their majority.

"but what if this or that happens???"
"but what if that fails?"
"I don't want to be blamed for that."

How about "what if it works?"

What if they truly embrace Democratic principles and try frikkin' LEADING!  There is no shame in "going for it" when "it" is for the greater good.

If they don't have the integrity to stand on principle, get them out of the way.

No one second guesses heroes who die in the line of duty trying to save others. No one says, "because he/she failed, everyone died."  No, rightly so, a hero is someone who selflessly tried to do for others despite the danger.  No one remembers the ones who didn't try.

If they're motivated by nothing but self-preservation, at least they'd be able to boast how they stood up for the democratic principle of letting the voters decide.

Come November given a decent choice vote those who literally sit on their asses out.  Support those down the ticket that promise change and action and have a history of carrying thru on hard challenges.

I'm having a little trouble finding a good reference for it (here's one, but it lacks the accompanying story), but there's a good Gandhi story (maybe in the Louis Fischer book?) about how one day he was talking to an interviewer and the march he was supposed to be leading went by, and Gandhi supposedly said:

There they go. I must run and catch up with them, because I am their leader!

This situation seems to be similar, only more metaphorical and without the context of a lifetime of morality, supreme sacrifice, and struggle for the rights of the disadvantaged.

of throwing US --the voters who put them there in the first place -- under the bus. And I for one, am fucking sick of it.

Last night in another diary, someone brought up the fact that only candidate diaries are making the rec list and all the issue diaries never see the light of day.

The reason is because we have DONE OUR SHARE for the past four years tackling those major issues only to watch the dems keep their fucking powder dry, just as they are by withholding superdelegate support. Pick a fucking side, Godammit, and be done with it! No they sit there and watch a perfectly good man get crucified in the media for something his pastor said  on a continous loop in the MSM. It's beyond contempt wat they are doing. They could change the story line right fucking now. Right fucking now. Obama has won, he has the math, they know they will be the "deciders". They know if he falls in the polls it will be because he was swiftboated. And they sat and watched it fucking happen.

Fucking cowards, I say. I'm so frustrated I could scream. I now understand why Lewis Black left Silver Spring, Maryland--where I live now--I want to scream fuck you! at every last one of them.

I know what I won't do. I won't give one damn penny to the democratic party again until they show some balls.

My wife told me I need to start doing things right here in North Carolina. She's right.

North Carolina is a key state now.

We need to send a strong message that we will not stand for race-based attacks.

I cannot think of one Senator that could write the speech he did, let alone stand up in front of the entire world and bring up the subject of: Race.

Remember this?

John Kerry, the Democratic candidate in the 2004 presidential election, made an extraordinary intervention on behalf of Barack Obama yesterday, accusing his opponents of stooping to "Swiftboat" smear tactics to destroy the senator's presidential ambitions.

   Kerry, whose presidential bid was wrecked by innuendo and lies about his Vietnam service as a Swiftboat officer on the Mekong river, did not name the Clintons but they appeared to be the main target of his outburst.

   "The fight is just heating up. We won't let them steal this election with lies and distortions," he said.

Remember this?

"I don't want a campaign that is divisive here, and there's a danger in that," Dodd said, although he denied he was nudging Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to end her candidacy.

   Dodd said Obama was "ready to be president and I am ready to support him in this campaign."

And this from John Edwards....

Tonight showed that if you’re willing to have a little backbone, a little courage, and stand up to corporate greed, we will be unstoppable – no matter how much money is spent," Edwards continued. "The Clinton campaign thought big money would make them inevitable – but despite being dramatically outspent by not one, but two celebrity candidates, we finished a strong second. And now we move on to New Hampshire and the other early states, where the voters will choose who is best suited to bring about the change this country so desperately needs."

A little backbone, indeed.  Where are they all now when it matters most? Where are they now to stand up for the core values of the Democratic Party, and to defend our party?  These 'leaders' including Senator Kennedy and others should be on every television and radio show possible discussing the issues and demanding that our party stand up and not be damaged and insulted by the right wing crazies.

I am losing all respect for these people, I really am. And as far as I can see, Obama shames them all with his brave and honorable conduct.

Look at it from THIER point of view.

That uncomitted vote keeps rising in value, now to astronomical heghts!

And as unclear as things are right now, why risk the revenge of the Clinton's?

there's a sizeable portion of the remaining uncommitteds who seem to address life like their literary hero: J. Alfred Prufrock

to start seriously contending for the November election.  I don't think it's terribly hyperbolic to point that out.

Back in February, I too was counseling patience.  But that's when I though Super Tuesday or at least Texas was going to put this thing to bed.  

it's the same cowardice.  Any power brokers willing to let this thing drag on all the way into June are as weak as they are foolish.