Acclimation

Earlier this evening the Democrats declared Barak Obama their candidate by acclimation. I guess they didn't want to have the whole roll call for two reasons. The first is that there was still a possibility he might not win, although that was really just about math. The other is that were it close they would have to listen to four months of "45% of their own people didn't even want to nominate him."

So I get it, in this age of political theatre it made sense not to run through the entire exercise. I have a question though. Does this mean that many of the "superdelegates" never had to pick one candidate or the other? If so, that seems pretty weaselly to me (Firefox is saying "weaselly" is a word and is spelled correctly - who knew.) For those of us who are process junkies and were really kinda miffed at the media for annoiting Obama as "presumptive nominee" before he had all the pledged delegates he needed, this forever shrouds the answer of who the primary process really selected as a mystery.

I thought the primarys were supposed to promote openness and defeat the "smoke filled rooms." In this case, that's exactly what we got. Without the full roll call the victory is a back room deal, and the margin will never be known, and manyDemocratic power brokers will get to go on playing both sides without ever having to stand for something.

I'm fine with the nominee. But once again I am disappointed in our process, and even more disenchanted with our execution.