Don't return to cronyism, nepotism

With Hillary Clinton recently staging a so-called comeback with primary victories in Ohio and Texas, it seems more likely than ever that a scenario will unfold in which Barack Obama leads in elected delegates won, states won, and popular votes won, yet does not have the nomination wrapped up by the convention.

A friendly word of advice to the Democratic party: nominating a candidate by using super delegates or by seating the Michigan and Florida delegations after originally saying that they wouldn't count, will be viewed by this voter as the height of hypocrisy.

So much for being the "party of the people," the party that claims Al Gore should have been president

because he won the popular vote, and the party that uses the very word democracy in its title. I can think of no action that would be more undemocratic then going back to the days when party bosses hand-picked nominees in smoke-filled, back-room dealings.

Cronyism and nepotism might have worked in the past, but they are not the methods that I want my presidential candidates to be elected by. Nor do I think this is the type of change that the Democratic party is seeking to bring to America following the Bush dynasty.

If Hillary Clinton is nominated in this fashion, she will not be receiving my vote in November.

Matt Lakemacher

Round Lake Beach