Neither Clinton Nor Obama Trust Their Fellow Democrats

There's an interesting development in the California Democrat Party. Both Obama and Clinton are purging the candidate lists for convention delegates to make sure only the ideologically purest of their supporters are in the running:

The Obama and Clinton campaigns "are purging potential California delegates to ensure that only their loyalists vote at the national convention that will crown one of them as the Democratic presidential nominee," according to the Associated Press.

"Driven by fears that some prospective delegates might be concealing their true allegiances, the campaigns are searching campaign finance data, scouring the Internet and making telephone calls to weed out dubious candidates. Neither side wants to elect a delegate who might really support their rival, or other candidate."

A lot of this is due to Hillary Clinton's insistence that "pledged" delegates are not really pledged at all but can vote for anybody they want. Fearing a faithless delegate, the candidates are trying to purify the field as much as they can.

Perhaps they are now seeing their fellow Democrats as we have seen them all along.

UPDATE: Obama backs down:

LOS ANGELES — Facing a backlash from supporters, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign reversed course Thursday and reinstated hundreds of people to lists that will be used to choose California’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention.

Campaign manager David Plouffe said in a letter to potential delegates that all names would be restored to ballots that will be used Sunday to elect the delegates, overturning the earlier decision. The letter did not refer to the complaints.

I wonder how much of this whole brouhaha was due to Operation Chaos and the Republicans who ended up as Hillary Clinton delegates in other states?