February 13, 2008 (LPAC)--Playing the fascist "Bloomberg Presidency option" game without even knowing it, Richmond, Virginia mayor Douglas Wilder went on CBS "Face the Nation" today and threatened pro-Barack Obama riots at the August Democratic Convention if Obama loses the nomination.

Wilder's outburst in debate with Hillary Clinton backer Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles, was only one example of rising pressure being exerted through national media upon the Democratic Party's so-called superdelegates, particularly those in the Congressional Black Caucus. The media are giving platforms to anyone demanding the superdelegates pledge support to Obama now, directed by "popular will," rather than wait to vote according their own decision at the Convention. National Public Radio (NPR) and the Baltimore Sun joined other media in repeating a New York Times story that Rep. John Lewis of Georgia had switched support from Clinton to Obama, which was a complete lie. NPR quoted that Democratic Party insider Donna Brazile as having said she'd leave the Party if "the superdelegates were used to broker the convention."

Wilder said, "If the superdelegates intervene and get in the way of it, and say, `Oh, no, we're going to determine what's best,' there will be chaos at the convention.... And if you think 1968 was bad, you watch: 2008 will be worse." The editor of Politico, interviewed later, described this approvingly as Wilder threatening riots, if "victory is snatched" from Obama, and threatened the same if delegates were seated from Florida or Michigan, where Clinton won primaries by the states were denied delegates by the national Party.

A threat of a Democratic convention of chaos is an important element of a third-party or independent scenario, which immediately includes the threat of a "Mussolini" candidacy of Bloomberg.