We continue our special in-depth educational series, Meet Your Superdelegates. A rare chance to get to know specific superdelegates who will be deciding the Democratic presidential nominee. We’re focusing on party elders, government officials, senior advisors, and other high profile politicians who feature prominently in television and film. And we boldly speculate who they will back at the Democratic convention. Today’s superdelegate profile comes from the breakthrough comedy movie sensation “Duck Soup.”

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.  He’s a cynical, sarcastic dictator who refuses to play politics by the book. For instance, he reduces workers’ hours–by shortening their lunch breaks.  When Chicolini volunteers Pinky to carry a message through enemy lines, Firefly tells him, “And remember, while you’re out there risking life and limb through shot and shell, we’ll be in here thinking what a sucker you are.”  Firefly’s aversion to using the military makes him supportive of a quick troop withdrawal from Iraq — and therefore sides with Barack Obama and his speedier retreat timeline than Hillary Clinton’s.

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We continue our special in-depth educational series, Meet Your Superdelegates. A rare chance to get to know specific superdelegates who will be deciding the Democratic presidential nominee. We’re focusing on party elders, government officials, senior advisors, and other high profile politicians who feature prominently in television and film. And we boldly speculate who they will back at the Democratic convention. Today’s superdelegate profile comes from the breakthrough dramatic HBO series sensation “John Adams.”

Learned and thoughtful, President John Adams was more remarkable as a political philosopher than as a politician. “People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity,” he said, doubtless thinking of his own as well as the American experience. Adams’ two terms as Vice President were frustrating experiences for a man of his vigor, intellect, and vanity. He complained to his wife Abigail, “My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.” This is why Barack Obama could never be Hillary Clinton’s running-mate — and puts Adams squarely in Clinton’s camp.

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We continue our special in-depth educational series, Meet Your Superdelegates. A rare chance to get to know specific superdelegates who will be deciding the Democratic presidential nominee. We’re focusing on party elders, government officials, senior advisors, and other high profile politicians who feature prominently in television and film. And we boldly speculate who they will back at the Democratic convention. Today’s superdelegate profile comes from the breakthrough comedy movie sensation “Caddyshack.”

Judge Elihu Smails is the uptight director of Bushwood Country Club.  He’s a man of great eloquence, creating his own poetry like: “It’s easy to grin / When your ship comes in / And you’ve got the stock market beat. / But the man worthwhile, / Is the man who can smile, / When his shorts are too tight in the seat.” But he’s also got a tough-love side, noting, “I’ve sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn’t want to do it. I felt I owed it to them”. And “Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.”  Thus he represents the true spirit of the audacity of hope — and is a Barack Obama superdelegate.

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We continue our special in-depth educational series, Meet Your Superdelegates. A rare chance to get to know specific superdelegates who will be deciding the Democratic presidential nominee. We’re focusing on party elders, government officials, senior advisors, and other high profile politicians who feature prominently in television and film. And we boldly speculate who they will back at the Democratic convention. Today’s superdelegate profile comes from the breakthrough animated comedy movie sensation “Horton Hears A Who!”

The Mayor of Whoville presides over a microscopic world.  He is father to 96 daughters and a son named Jo-Jo. He is very proud and formal, and cares very much for his city and its people, but when he starts hearing the voice of Horton, whom he cannot see, things begin to unravel for the Mayor.  And speaking of unraveling, he remains a Hillary Clinton superdelegate.  Talk about a microscopic world.

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We continue our special in-depth educational series, Meet Your Superdelegates. A rare chance to get to know specific superdelegates who will be deciding the Democratic presidential nominee. We’re focusing on party elders, government officials, senior advisors, and other high profile politicians who feature prominently in television and film. And we boldly speculate who they will back at the Democratic convention. Today’s superdelegate profile comes from the breakthrough sci-fi comedy movie sensation “Spaceballs.”

President Skroob leads Planet Spaceball.  One of the features of Skroob’s presidential office are beverage cans filled with air, branded “Perri-air.”  President Skroob seems to have a leadership style similar to Star Wars’s Emperor Palpatine — but is more more like a modern president without any supernatural powers. His name is an anagram of “Brooks,” but also resembles the verb to screw (to cheat) and Ebenezer Scrooge.  President Skroob is once forced to jog to the bridge in order to arrive before the end of the film. He references this by saying “This ship is too big. If I walked, the movie would be over.”  This kind of surgical wit and sarcasm comes right out of Barack Obama’s playbook, which he prefers over the decidedly more broadly physical humor of Hillary Clinton.

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We continue our special in-depth educational series, Meet Your Superdelegates. A rare chance to get to know specific superdelegates who will be deciding the Democratic presidential nominee. We’re focusing on party elders, government officials, senior advisors, and other high profile politicians who feature prominently in television and film. And we boldly speculate who they will back at the Democratic convention. Today’s superdelegate profile comes from the breakthrough fantasy sci-fi movie sensations “Conquest for the Planet of the Apes” and “Battle for the Planet of the Apes.”

In a futuristic society where ape slavery has taken over the world, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost 20 years in hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.  He leads a revolution that brings down human society and makes the nightmare of the humans who killed his parents come true.

Caesar: “Where there is fire, there is smoke. And in that smoke, from this day forward, my people will crouch and conspire and plot and plan for the inevitable day of Man’s downfall - the day when he finally and self-destructively turns his weapons against his own kind. The day of the writing in the sky, when your cities lie buried under radioactive rubble! When the sea is a dead sea, and the land is a wasteland out of which I will lead my people from their captivity! And we will build our own cities in which there will be no place for humans except to serve our ends! And we shall found our own armies, our own religion, our own dynasty! And that day is upon you NOW!”

It’s this kind of rhetorical and revolutionary zeal that Hillary Clinton will need to beat Barack Obama in the April 22 Pennsylvania primary — and which puts Caesar in Clinton’s camp.

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We continue our special in-depth educational series, Meet Your Superdelegates. A rare chance to get to know specific superdelegates who will be deciding the Democratic presidential nominee. We’re focusing on party elders, government officials, senior advisors, and other high profile politicians who feature prominently in television and film. And we boldly speculate who they will back at the Democratic convention. Today’s superdelegate profile comes from the breakthrough action adventure sci-fi movie sensation “X2: X-Men United.”

President McKenna is most famous for being in the Oval Office with White House staff when a guard notices something strange.  The guard investigates and discovers that a mutant has breached security. The Secret Service can’t catch him because the mutant is able to teleport to different areas very fast. Eventually he makes it into the Oval Office, but he doesn’t follow through on his plan to kill the president — thus ensuring that McKenna survives long enough to endorse Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton.

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We continue our special in-depth educational series, Meet Your Superdelegates. A rare chance to get to know specific superdelegates who will be deciding the Democratic presidential nominee. We’re focusing on party elders, government officials, senior advisors, and other high profile politicians who feature prominently in television and film. And we boldly speculate who they will back at the Democratic convention. Today’s superdelegate profile comes from the breakthrough comedy drama movie sensation “St. Elmo’s Fire.”

Alec Newbary is a ruthless, ambitious yuppie, pursuing a career in politics. He works for a Senator, but is trying to get a better-paying job, even though it means switching political parties.  At one point, his friend Jules, high from cocaine, calls Alec in the middle of the night, claiming she is about to be raped by Arabs. Alec “rescues” Jules from the hotel room where the Arabs are staying.  Alec thus shows the value of judgment over experience, making him closer to Barack Obama’s style of leadership than to Hillary Clinton’s.

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We continue our special in-depth educational series, Meet Your Superdelegates. A rare chance to get to know specific superdelegates who will be deciding the Democratic presidential nominee. We’re focusing on party elders, government officials, senior advisors, and other high profile politicians who feature prominently in television and film. And we boldly speculate who they will back at the Democratic convention. Today’s superdelegate profile comes from the breakthrough action-adventure comedic TV series “The Misadventures of  Sheriff Lobo.”

Elroy P. Lobo is Sheriff of Orly County.  He’s also corrupt, always looking to make a quick buck. But when serious crime threatens Orly County and its people, Lobo does his job capably and upholds the law.  He is an intelligent man and an able police officer.  Georgia’s governor eventually reassigns Lobo and the deputies to his crime fighting task force, Special Crimes Action Team, in Atlanta.  But Lobo’s base remains rural America, just like Hillary Clinton’s, which makes him a superdelegate for Clinton even though Georgia went for Barack Obama.

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We continue our special in-depth educational series, Meet Your Superdelegates. A rare chance to get to know specific superdelegates who will be deciding the Democratic presidential nominee. We’re focusing on party elders, government officials, senior advisors, and other high profile politicians who feature prominently in television and film. And we boldly speculate who they will back at the Democratic convention. Today’s superdelegate profile comes from the breakthrough slapstick comedy movie “Protocol.”

Sunny Davis is a Washington cocktail waitress who, through a series of comic accidents, becomes a national heroine and is taken on by the State Department as a protocol official.  Alas, she become a pawn in the State Department’s campaign to obtain a military base in a Middle Eastern country whose emir is partial to blondes like Sunny.  Sunny’s considerable depth of experience and judgment in foreign policy and protocol makes her an ideal candidate to replace Samantha Power on Barack Obama’s foreign policy team.  Put Sunny Davis squarely on the Obama superdelegate list.

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