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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