MILWAUKEE - Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel - one of Hillary Clinton's most stalwart African-American defenders - is apparently questioning her reliance on unelected superdelegates to stay competitive with Barack Obama, saying they may not reflect the "will" of Democratic voters.
"It's the people [who are] going to govern who selects our next candidate and not superdelegates," Rangel said last night at a dinner for the New York State Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators conference in Albany.

"The people's will is what's going to prevail at the convention and not people who decide what the people's will is," he added.


Superdelegates, who are usually high-ranking party officials, are free to choose any candidate, unlike "pledged" delegates apportioned by primaries and caucuses. Obama's approximately 40-delegate lead overall would be much larger were it not for Clinton's 75-delegate edge among the supers.
A danger to the party

Earlier yesterday, Sen. Charles Schumer, another major Clinton supporter, expressed his discomfort with her willingness to battle Obama for delegates on the floor of the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August. New York's senior senator, speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press," called on Clinton and Obama to agree on a winner after the final caucus in Puerto Rico, saying a protracted fight will rip apart the party in a year when they're favored to win the White House.

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I don't think the Clinton's are going to survive this election policatically intact. I never seen anyone so desperate to split the party to get power of the White House.

Bill has lost his mind, he's not going to be the same after this.

If anyone actually thinks Hillary Clinton will just give up and walk away for the good of the Democratic party they know nothing about Hillary Clinton. She doesn't give a rats *** about the Democratic party or the American people for that matter. What she cares about is her goal of being the first woman president, and she will do anything and sacrifice anything to get that. I think Obama is a decent man, albeit a little too far left for my taste, so I just hope he is willing to play just as down and dirty as Mrs. Clinton and keep fighting until the bitter end. I think a bitter fight to the end would not hurt the way Obama is viewed by people, but she is risking a lot more. If she continues to fight and somehow cheats him out of this if he does have more delegates at the end, winning the Democratic nomination will not help her. It will just swing more people who will hate her even more over to McCain. When will the Democrats realize that they can't lose with Obama? If Mrs. Clinton wins everyone loses, not just the Democrats.

If you've never read "Rewriting History" by Dick Morris I strongly recommend it. He worked with the Clintons for 20 years. He isn't gossipy about her or vindictive, he just tells some of the character traits she has that make her totally unsuitable for the presidency and how her book "Living History" tells half truths and outright lies. If you read it you will totally understand that she is not going to let go of this without a fight to the death. This is her last chance. If Obama wins the presidency, which he most likely will if he is nominated, that puts her waiting another 8 years. In 4 years if he has done a horrible job the country will elect another Republican, and if he has done a good job he will be reelected. With his victory she is done for because in 8 years she will be 68 years old. If we are questioning the ability of a 72 year old man to do the job we would certainly question a woman's ability at 68, plus it gives her another 8 years to really screw up something in the senate. Its now or never for her, and she knows it. Watch for her to do some REALLY dirty things in the next few months.