An Opinion from Robert Creamer

The time for debating credentials has long since become a moot point. Senator Obama, according to his Party's rules, having received the majority apportionment of the pledged delegates, garnering the majority support of Super delegates, according to his Party's rules, should be named the Democratic nominee for president of the United States.
 

The remaining delegate count in Montana, South Dakota and Puerto Rico, even if Senator Clinton were to receive all of the remaining pledged delegate votes, would still not provide enough pledged delegates to declare her a valid front runner.
 
The mathematics being used to justify Senator Clinton's logic seeks to incorporate winning numbers for her from two primaries that she, Senator Obama and Senator Edwards agreed to bypass due to the Democratic Party's decision when Michigan and Florida ignored the Democratic Party's instructions. The penalties were known to all before the actions were taken. 
 
The reality is that no Democratic candidate was to campaign in either of those states nor were the delegates to be seated. At the time, Senators Edwards, Clinton and Obama all agreed to abide by the Party rules. At some point, Senator Clinton changed her mind and decided to ignore the Party's instructions as did the states of Michigan and Florida.
   

In an effort to devise some means of including the voters of Florida and Michigan and in an effort to avoid penalizing Senator Obama, who abided by the Party rules, the Democratic National Committee will meet to work out a compromise. Any compromise that may come out of the Democratic National Committee meeting on May 31, concerning the Florida and Michigan delegates, must result in some form of splitting of the delegates between Senator Obama and Senator Clinton. Again, she will not have the numbers to support her nomination.
 
At stake is the reality that abiding by his Party's rules, Senator Obama has won the majority of pledged delegates through apportionment and gained the support of a majority of the Super delegates.
 
Will the Democratic Party disregard the will of the people, whose votes were acquired through the process put in place by the Democratic Party, dismissing the votes of the majority that voted for Senator Obama? 
 
The rules currently do not support a 'do over' because some would rather have another choice for nominee.