Pledged delegates and keeping one's promises.
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A couple of weeks ago, I was approached by an alternate delegate to the county and district caucuses for Senator Clinton. She wasn't just wavering, she had changed her mind completely and wanted to support Senator Obama. She was talking to me because I'm a delegate to county and district for Senator Obama, and wanted my advice. At the time, my advice was that she had given her word to her friends and neighbors, the folks that had elected her as a delegate, that she would support Senator Clinton in the upcoming caucus/convention, and should keep her word to them, although she was free to help the Obama campaign in other ways. What a surprise to find that Senator Clinton is telling me that my advice to her was dead wrong. My friend is free to support Senator Obama!
According to Senator Clinton "Every delegate with very few exceptions is free to make up his or her mind however they choose".
This appears to be one more example of why I'm not a Clinton supporter. If she ends up as the nominee, I'll have to vote the "lesser evil" ticket, and support her, but if Senator McCain hadn't drunk a full pitcher of the Bush Kool-aide, and cozied up to some seriously odd folks in his search for supporters, it would have been a difficult choice. Still, am I just a naive idealist with my head in the clouds to believe that it's still important to keep a promise? Is it too much to expect that our candidates feel the same way?
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