Super delegates shouldn't be heroes

A Senior View

By Ed Lyons

(Updated: Friday, April 11, 2008, 10:03 PM)

I really don't care who these so-called super delegates are. Except, of course, if as their name implies, they are considered superior to me. I don't even care how they vote, unless their vote is decisive.

What I really care about is their very existence and the whole idea behind it.

I am fully aware that our present-day politics are to a great degree misleading and even dishonest, but this super delegate business is so blatant in its intent to circumvent our voting process that I would be ashamed to vote for the party that advocates it.

It's as though "eminent domain philosophy" is being brought into the polling place -- like your vote is only good if a select group decides it is in the "general" interest.

It's kind of like the credo of "one man -- one vote" no longer applies and has been exchanged for "what's good for the party is what's good for the country.

A couple of columns ago I predicted that the two democratic candidates would destroy themselves in their in-fighting and that their (eventual) opponent would reap the benefit leaving all of us facing that old conundrum "the lesser of two evils."

I suggest that all of you out there who know in their hearts that our country is the best that has ever been, think that we should ever have to settle for the "least" of anything.

Grandpa sez: "God has already seen fit to bless America. Can't we go along with Him and at least respect her?"