Their role in the nomination process dates back to the 1980s, when party bosses decided that people such as themselves should be empowered to break a tie or stop the great unwashed from picking someone unsuitable.Over half of the superdelegates have already endorsed a candidate, but they can change their minds, and several have recently switched to Mr Obama.
A good analogy is with central banking: within a broadly agreed political framework, it works best when the detailed decisions on monetary policy are taken independent of any outside political pressures.What is more, Mr Pitt at the SEC failed not because he was too independent but because he caved in to political pressure when picking an unsuitable nominee to a key regulatory post.
The lesson: Don't pick a massively unsuitable host Some time in the early noughties, ITV aired a brand-new quiz show, Shafted.
How tempting it is to shout warnings across time and space – as Parker picks another younger, unsuitable lover, or goes on another binge, or keeps running back to Hollywood to write screenplays when she should have been in New York finishing her novel.
Australia have developed a knack for picking such comically unsuitable squads for tours as this that the shambolic results are not only expected, but the tragi-comic pratfalls that ensue almost make the results hard to place in context with anything else they do.
Or someone more likely to slyly recommend that they pick a duff or unsuitable skipper?
The object is for one boy to pick out the most unsuitable passing stranger -- a drunk, a priest or "a flamboyantly swish homosexual" -- and to point at him and say, "Is that your dad?" The other boy has to approach the target and improvise some demand for paternal recognition.
Anna Wintour may be an enticing pick for a celebrity-fixated White House, but she is eminently unsuitable for America's most prestigious diplomatic posting".
The American government judged it unsuitable for wide killing and ricin became a castaway that Baghdad picked up and United Nation inspectors are even now searching for in Iraq.
Furthermore, annotated miRNAs like miR-608 [30] and miR-623 [30], which are not picked up in all the datasets here investigated and unsuitable to experimental validation in our hands, are probably two examples out of several falsely annotated miRNAs in the miRBase.
She refers to "no kill" animal shelters as "pick and choose" shelters because they can turn away dogs that are unsuitable for adoption.
