Obama Gets Super Delegates Under Affirmative Action!

[Dan]

(2008-03-05) — While the delegate count remains close in the Democrat presidential race after Sen. Hillary Clinton’s victories in Ohio and Texas yesterday, experts said the Super Delegates should all go to Sen. Barack Obama under a Democrat party formula designed to compensate for historic racial prejudice.

The Affirmative Action formula will hand Sen. Obama the nomination, even if, as the Clinton campaign contends, he gets only half of the Super Delegates — an amount proportionate to his genetic racial mix.
Meanwhile, Sen. Clinton’s lawyers will press their case that the former First Lady should get a Super Delegate “bonus” of 23 percent, in addition to those already committed to her, because women in general earn only 77 cents for every dollar men earn, according to labor union figures.

Democrat National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said the closeness of the race only serves to highlight the value of the Super Delegates.

“If we didn’t have these professional politicians to ultimately pick the nominee,” said Mr. Dean, “the future of our party would be left in the hands of common, ordinary people.”