All this enthusiasm for payback-politics seems out of place for idealistic Obama supporters who are supposed to be all about change and "a new kind of politics". And whenever I hear about chickens coming home to roost I am immediately reminded of Jeremiah Wright shouting those same words to adoring parishioners shouting AMEN!! But of course feel free to post anything that strikes your fancy.

Look, if you want to keep being my puppet, you've got to stop posting anti-Clinton material. It's making the other puppets look bad. OK?

I would bet that most of the superdelegates who remain uncommitted have merely been hedging their bets (and perhaps even still are). No one likes to back a loser, especially when there's a big change in the Democratic establishment in the offing.

Clinton got a large number of early endorsements no doubt because of her position as the front runner for the nomination, but as soon as Obama became a credible threat the well dried up very quickly. After that, Obama slowly closed the gap as he extended his lead in pledged delegates, but essentially the uncommitteds began to wait and see what was going to happen.

So I don't believe the supers have been trying to stick it to Clinton by refraining from committing. Politicians are not a particularly brave bunch of people when it comes to sticking their necks out, so the most obvious answer to why they didn't commit is that they didn't want to back the wrong horse thus risking the animus of the winning candiate.

I suspect a lot of super delegates remember what happened to the party under the Clintons in the 1990s. We lost state houses, governorships, the US senate and house under Bill.

They used the DNC to chase the same big money donors under McAuliffe as the Republicans did impractically trying to shoehorn the fat cat agenda via triangulation into the progressive policies they promised us.

They left the Democratic party a shambles in 2001, an underfunded second rate operation that couldn't compete in many states, on the defensive against a Republican onslaught. Al Gore couldn't even use them for support in 2000.

After this campaign, it's not surprising to learn that the Clintons didn't learn a basic lesson from Kindergarten: people treat in kind.

If the Clinton's have long memories and bear a grudge, they run the risk of being increasingly irrelevant... and they know this. After all, Hillary still has at least 4 more years in the Senate.

It should not be a surprise to anyone that Politics is all about the relationships that are formed along the way. You support me on this and I'll support you on that. This person has always been my good friend - I've always been able to count on you for your support and I appreciate that. Political power is based on how much of that you've accumulated. And if you earn enough enemies, you don't have as much power as you might think you have, because you can be undercut when you least expect it. That's politics.

Hey Opie, Actually your totally correct. Clintons (duo) have never done anything for the American people and thank god those chickens have come home to roost. In fact, you all should just keep going because she doesn't deserve to live. Go on. Keep it up.

Since I apparently have so much frackin power through the mere typing of my opinions here that I can sway or offend all the Hillary supporters in the country - as well as the Repugs and media, whom I also scorn with heaps of as much wit and malice as I can muster, I guess I need to stop.

I wouldn't want to destroy the whole fucking country with my comments here on this board.

We all should be vewy vewy careful!

What you seem to miss here, Otto, is that it is the delegates that are playing the politics, not Obama. The delegates are with holding their support because of what they feel are wrongs made against them in the past. Barack Obama has nothing to do with this, other than being the recipient of their support.