Clinton's deputy campaign manager dropping out sounds like there's some panic. They may claim there isn't, but it doesn't send very good signals to the average Joe and Jane.

The pundits on MSNBC and CNN (which did include Friend of Clinton Paul Begala) kept emphasizing that Clinton is a formidable campaigner. And I like how Tom Brokaw said that Obama's campaign has taken rock star proportions.

Obama is going to win. Tonight I really felt that for the first time. He looks and sounds like he's leading a movement-- and compared to him, when McCain took the stage, he looked small and old, and sad.

Hillary's Texas strategy is a total Giuliani retread-- Obama is going to rack up five more victories-- that'll make the total states something like 26 to 10 in his favor. With those wins, and three more weeks to grow this tidal wave of press and support, barring any huge surprises, he's going to be unstoppable.

Never underestimate the intelligence of Americans. In our Idiocracy, we've been able to make Alvin and the chipmunks a 200 million dollar movie and Hannah Montana as 30 million last week. these are the dumbasses that will vote for Obama and then McCain. I never liked Hilary but she's the only viable candidate. I think Obama is the best speaker but the mere fact that he's black is gonna destroy the midwest whiteboy vote. Everyone in so excited he's on the ticket but the problem is that the people excited for Obama only live in BLUE STATES! the ones in the reds are too few a minority. If you really wanted Obama to win you would have moved to kansas, registered as a republican and when the curtain fell, then vote for Obama, as it is you guys are just preaching to the Choir and then you will lose to McCain in november.

Remember the inspiring "Yes We Can" video made by supporters of Barack Obama?

Now McCain has his own version (a parody)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gwqEneBKUs

What's it going to take babyhitler? Obama beat Hillary in every demographic today. You're showing an amazing ignorance of our electoral system. Since when has a democrat candidate had to rely on the midwest to win an election?

Despite that, he'll carry Illinois handily, and he'll make a huge run at southern states like Georgia, Missouri, and South Carolina. He'll take all the normal blue states and I'm betting he'll take Ohio too. Being from Ohio orginally (so, one of your midwest whiteboys), I can tell you that you don't know as much about the midwest as you think you do.

Ive had this feeling in my gut for the past year that a vote for Hillary would be a vote for another 4 years of the Bush-Clinton Dynasty.
Now that there is talk of her taking those votes in FL and MI I am now absolutely *convinced* that as Pres. it will still be the same old govt. up to its same tricks. If she does it I would hope that everyone would cry foul just like they would if it was Dub.

baby hitler needs a bottle.

uh oh. babyhitler just pooped his pants.

seriously, i'm not changing them again.

Babyhitler,

Yes I Can debate. Yes I Can reason.

But basically I just think that you're wrong and I'm not sure which points I should argue against; you're basically just giving us an opinion. I think that you're naive. I think you are so jaded that you honestly can't even conceive that a leader can unite people toward a common goal.

I agree that swift-boaters exist. I agree that there are hicks and idiots, sexists and racists. I don't think these people should decide my vote for me and I'm not going to wait until they make up their minds before I rally behind the candidate that I believe in.

Peace.

Seriously? Nader in 2000? There was like 3% of the country that ever thought he had a chance in hell. He didn't win primary after primary appealing to every single demographic before entering into the the general election. Obama is a tried and true, unlike your analogy.

Yeah, Clinton did well in the Midwest in '96, but Gore only needed Florida, and Kerry only needed Ohio. And a point of order, Colorado, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and West Virginia are not part of the Midwest, and Missouri is arguable at best. So "showing my folly" there is doubtful to say the least. You're just trying to find a way to cloak your racism in some sort of political strategy. Your screen name is "babyhitler", how seriously can I take your opinions on race?

Oh, and if you're going to pull out Icarus as a metaphor here, try to remember the whole story: Daedalus told Icarus not to fly too close to the sun because his wax and feather wings would melt, but he also told him not to fly too close to the ocean, as the wings would become damp and cease to work. Its an allegory warning against extremes in attitudes, so it applies just as well to your extreme pessimism as it does to some of Barack's extremely optimistic supporters.

well you never know. Celebrity does sort of transcend race. I don't know many white people who hate Michael Jordan. So, if Obama can get to that level of blinding celebrity maybe he can win. peace.

The pundits know nothing and just yammer on like idiots citing meaningless and unscientific polls to fill hours of 24 hour cable news that would otherwise be filled with the misadventures of some pop tart, missing white woman, or some other garbage that just increases the speed of rotation of Edward R. Murrow spinning in his grave.

Obama is just a brand, that looks good, seems hip and has good production values, but it is more of the same old political garbage. When Obama is finally revealed to the masses as just another political hack in a sea of political hacks they'll be shocked and disheartened when they find he is just another political phony.
At least you know all of that with Hillary going in.

It seems a bit less worse than the Republican freak show, though.

if necessary, they'll pull strings to seat the delegates from Florida and Michigan they'd previously agreed were disqualified. a.k.a. cheating.

" McCain might be older but he is hardly sad or small..."

Kind of an odd post. You counter someone's observation with platitudes about McCain's service. I don't really get your argument. Like it or not, physical appearance does matter in the TV age. It isn't fair, but neither is life.

[i]I don't really get your argument. [/i] Jake's comment was not that McCain is not as visually appealing as Obama. It was that he looked small and old and sad. Obviously McCain is going to look old compared to Obama. The description of "small and sad" is what I don't agree with. I don't think the small comment was about height. Obama's taller than Hillary, or Bloomberg, but I doubt that the description of small would be used for them. I guess the comment struck me as being ageist. People age differently- there are people in their 70s who are strong and healthy, and there are people in their 50s who are tired and worn out. McCain may not be in the prime of life, but he is not a feeble doddering old man.

youth alone is not a compelling reason to support someone, and age, alone, should not be a reason to be against someone. The argument might be that it's time for someone with a fresh perspective- McCain has been in Washington for as long as many readers of gothamist have been alive. But age is a separate thing.

Warren Buffet is 78. I'd rather he take care of my investments than someone half his age, because he's proven himself capable, and is sharp despite his age.

BabyHitler-- THIS is why the rest of the country hates New York. As a native Midwesterner (voted for Obama as Senator of IL before moving here two years ago), I'm infuriated with the constant stream of New Yorkers masking their own prejudice in terms of who the "fly-over country-bumpkin Midwesterners" will and won't vote for. It's a simple-minded and demeaning analysis.

To wit: There have been three African American Senators since the re-construction, TWO of whom were elected by the State of Illinois, one of whom was a woman (Carol Mosley Braun). Chicago elected an African American mayor some seven years before Liberated New York City did. Minnesota elected a black, Muslim to the House of Representatives. Don't tell me who the Midwest will and won't vote for.

eyekantspel,

Warren Buffet endorses Obama. Just saying.

"I've got a conviction about him that I don't get very often. He has as much potential as anyone I've seen to have an important impact over his lifetime on the course that America takes. If he can do an ounce better with me, fine." - Warren Buffet

I'm with you babyhitler. I'm so tired of Obama's rhetoric. I bet most young voters have no idea what it's like not to have health insurance. Voters are mostly stupid, that's why we have an electoral college and Superdelegates.

I'm really, really excited about this. OBAMA is the bomb-a.

"Universal healthcare" sounds like a great idea, and the folks lap it up. But how do you propose to fund and maintain this?

Toby, if Obama is just a brand, how has he been able to skillfully outmaneuver the powerhouse that is Hillary Clinton? I don't believe that you can chalk it all up to the media. He's even got McCain borrowing his tag lines now. What he's done takes skill my friend, believe it or not.

Babyhitler, I wrote a response to you regarding Obama, but I lost it in the Gothamist server. Sorry.

Warren Buffet endorses Obama. Just saying. I have no problem with Obama, and have posted his merits over Hillary as the Democratic nominee on several occassions.

My point was that depicting McCain as small and tired simply because he is older is itself small and tired. No doubt age can be a factor in memory and vitality for some, but there are a lot of older people who are as sharp as they come.

John McCain also was part of the Keating Five. That's some's hero.

oh, and another cute tidbit from your link, Elderta, "DeConcini [one of the Keating Five] was appointed by President Bill Clinton in February, 1995 to the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation."

Obviously Bill Clinton didn't see the Keating Five thing as a big issue, so I doubt many people are going to care much about it now. A group of mostly Democratic senators sticking up for a friend sort of pales in comparison to Clinton's pardon of FALN, Marc Rich, Susan MacDougal (for refusing to testify about Whitewater), etc.