Superdelegates are hardly democratic

The Democratic Party has devised a reliance on "super-delegates" to determine who will be their candidate for president. These super-delegates are NOT elected nor voted for by citizens in the primaries. They are party insiders, officials and bureaucrats.

Sound undemocratic? It is.

It seems that the Democratic Party runs by arbitrary rules that ensure that party officials determine who gets the nomination. The founders of our Constitution warned that nominations done this way would make the presidency merely a servant to the elite special interest groups who appoint it.

"The Democratic Party has created a system that echoes failed models from the American past, and threatens to sap the presidency of its independence and authority by turning it into the handmaiden of Congress instead of the choice of the American people. " -- John Yoo.

And this from the same party that made a huge fuss over the proven logic of our Electoral College voting system for president. The same party that made such a fuss in 2000 that presidents should only be determined by the direct votes of the citizens, that no vote should be discounted and that any president not getting such is illegitimate!

Why does anyone believe them?

Mike Shadley

Oakbrook Terrace