The Scotsman reports that Former President Jimmy Carter and Former Vice President Al Gore have been in “high level” discussions about delivering a final blow to Senator Clinton’s campaign. The paper reports it is not a question of if but when the two will join together and possibly publicly urge Democrats to unite around Senator Obama or ask Clinton privately to exit the race.

I don’t know if it is true or not, but I do have to ask this. Do people in the Democratic party really care that much what Al Gore and Jimmy Carter have to say? There was this media perception weeks ago that Teddy Kennedy, somehow reformed in the medias eyes into a party super organizer, would deliver the final blow to Clinton. Then it was Bill Richardson. Now there is a sense that Al Gore and Jimmy Carter, both of whom couldn’t unite Democrats around their candidacies, can somehow direct the entire will of the Democratic Party.

That seems a little, far-fetched to me.

In addition, this all only matters if it comes before Pennsylvania and the other remaining states. If this magical ability of both Gore & Carter to change the race is real, then fine, prove it by going public, asking Democrats to go with Obama, then lets see Pennsylvania follow.

Lets face it, most of these endorsements don’t matter and the race is going to resolve itself not through pledged delegates but superdelegates. So it may be one thing to simply demand superdelegates make their decision now or in the near future, but I highly doubt Carter & Gore are going to be able to convince Clinton to leave or any states to vote differently.