On Feb 20, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Charlie Coleman wrote:
> It just struck me as odd that a political party, that supposedly
> professes
> it is better at "democracy" than the opposition (Republicans),
???
Are you reading too much into the name of the party, and ignoring its
historical derivation?
> set up this
> kind of "elitist group" in determining who gets the party's
> nomination.
> That is, a group that isn't chosen by the people to determine who
> they want
> to be president.
That's kinda funny, since you don't get to choose your delegates in
any case. The party selects delegates for each candidate. You vote for
the candidate, but what you get is the party-selected delegate. That
delegate (depending on each state's rules) should cast their vote for
the candidate you voted for, but usually after the 1st ballot, all
bets are off, and they can pretty much do whatever they want.
> Sure a "party organization" is not a government. But it certainly is
> entwined in the political system of our government. And very vocally
> as
> well, e.g. political propaganda (from both parties). I would not
> have found
> the same thing so odd if we were talking about how some corporation
> determines it's CEO, or how a union determines it's leadership.
I guess I never had such an idealistic view of things.
-- Ed Leafe
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