[lbo-talk] How democratic is having "superdelegates"?

Bill O'Connor billyoc at gmail.com
Sun Feb 17 12:37:30 PST 2008


Peter Lavelle <untimely_thoughts at yahoo.com> writes:


> In my weekly television program at "Russia Today" I intend to discuss "superdelegates." How democratic is this - since the US has the terrible habit of telling the rest of world what democracy should be....
>

These "super" delegates are elected directly by the people or appointed by officials that are directly elected by the people. Just another aspect of representative government, with the currently trendy "controversy" much ado about nothing.



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