The Dem super-delegates, like the electoral college, have been portrayed as un-democratic but that's their entire point. If you have been watching HBO's John Adams mini-series you know that our founders had a great fear of the mob which is why we have a Republic today and not a Democracy (politician's rhetoric about "democracy" aside). The super delegates have the swing vote because they are far more invested in seeing their party representative elected and so spend far more time running numbers on which candidate does better in swing states (surprisingly it is Hillary). As a cute irony the Republican primary is strictly democratic (no super-delegates) and the Democratic primary is heavily Republican (the masses and their elected representatives get equal say).
Do I find what Obama said hateful? You betcha: I've been waiting for him to get his since day one. You can't seriously think that a guy who came out of Chicago politics isn't rotten to the core. I'm still waiting for an expose that says his major constituency in Illinois wasn't labor or blacks but the voting dead.
Obama is for Hope, Change, and Unity - but in the service of what? [as Jay Nordlinger would say]. His message boils down to hope for his supporters that the opposition will change their views to the left's own. From his voting record and candid statements his idea of unity is "can't we all just agree with me?" This is politics as usual but with a great personality (which Obama surely has). But politics as usual all the same.
Ultimately I think Obama will be the nominee this time around. My lefty friends [I live in Mass so this is the majority] talk about Obama the same way they talked about Kerry: whenever he says two opposite things they believe the one they like. Those friends were infuriated by Bush because he said only one set of things and they knew he meant it. As a conservative I disliked Bush because I also believed he meant what he said. With Bush I could fake up a belief that congress would stop him but today with McCain I have no such illusions or comfort.
NB: please see my remonstrations about this post and many others.