A Democrat holding off Hillary with one hand and beating a Republican war hero with the other over National Defense.

I don't think any of his opponents have a clue how to counter his strategies and tactics because they only know how to play politics one way. Old politics is a sure loser this year.

Not a moment too soon.

Wow. Excellent post.

I would just like to add that props should also go to David Axelrod and the rest of the crew. I can't tell you how happy I am with Obama's campaign. The whole team deserves a lot of credit.

And yes, Obama deserves a lot of credit for putting the team together. What a leader, eh?

You should write propaganda for North Korea.

Brilliant portrait of a Dear Leader. Perfect in every possible way, yet almost human.

I am mollified by your analysis of the Montana/So Dakota Ad buy.

It also makes some sense I suppose that Obama conserve funds from use in primary ads to counter the falsehoods - even at the expense of some margins in both states and even a delegate loss or two, if that is the result of whatever effect those ads have on the race.

HOWEVER, I continue to think about all of those small businesses who are struggling to pay their staff and accounts payable without funds owed to them from Clinton, whose debt apparently remains while she spends the new money that came in on those ad buys.

And that brings me to the concept that a settlement attempt whereby Obama helps her pursue donors to make up her debt - rather than donors for his fight vs McCain will mean that he has effectively paid for h er final dishonest ad buys.

All while she proclaims in every interview today that she sees the race to acquire delegates as wide open because of her 'momentum'

The thought of him having to pay her bills in such a case truly grates.

Yet I keep running across good solid dems who will vote for Obama but view his losses to her in primaries as a signal that he will be weak vs McCain .

Every day after June 3 spent pushing his weakness - and I firmly believe she will continue eve a few days after he hits majority on the rationale that some mayu swing back - constitutes one more knife wound in his back.

It is profoundly tasteless and will (I believe, consciously) allow her to "accept" some position as payoff in exchange for campaigning that he is the best candidate - all the while serving her alternative purpose to create and re-enforce the 'validity' of Republican arguments that her earlier stated claims up thru, say Fridau June 13 - were more accurate than her 'heartfelt' later claims.

Its troubling to have to keep countering the "I don't think he can do it" worries with the GOTV registration, etc etc. and I hold Hillary fully responsible.

In a couple of days, following the final MT and SD primaries, Hillary will have difficulties finding a stage to press her case for the nomination. She'll have no more campaign stops, no traveling press corp filming her daily. If the super delegates come out for Obama this week and put him over the new 2118 (?) number, all the focus will go to Obama. He's run a brilliant campaign.

His campaign team's focus has been awesome, especially in contrast with the Clinton circus.
A crafty, hard-nosed political animal who at the same time comes across as both authentic and idealistic -- Obama is like Bill Clinton 2.0.
Which probably explains why Bill hates him so.
I can't wait to see him operate on the world stage.
Fasten your seat belts, folks. This should be fun.

Let me play a devils advocate. I'm an Obama supporter, but this almost unquestionable applaud is rather naive.

He is one of the best strategist and campaigner- no doubt. He played his cards right almost always-but not always.

He could've a closed it around TX/OH. A clear cut popular vote win in TX would have ended before all the Wright outrage. He was flustered by Hillary's Kitchen Sink strategy. In my view he looked baffled, and couldn't adjust quickly to her C-in-C attacks and 3 A.M ads;

Also, not competing in KY was a dickhead move. She won by 250,000 votes- that's just not acceptable. It was a wrong move.

Also, he needs to stop this Popular vote B.S. It's already getting out of hand. She's obviously trying to erode some of the legitimacy.

Kudos to Obama camp for winning from nowhere. But, lets not get carried away.

Love the song title analogy!

I appreciate that Obama seems to be a well-centered individual, who possesses the focus and ego-strength to resist getting caught up in other people's dramas or waste time engaging in belly-bumping contests where having the last word is a psychological necessity. Apparently his campaign calls him "no-drama Obama" and then there is his amazingly low 90/60 blood pressure.

To be sure, his campaign hasn't been flawless, but he does seem to have a sense of picking his battles carefully. These qualities will stand him in good stead in times to come.

It would sure be cool if a bunch of supers endorsed him in Saint Paul Tuesday night. Thirty or forty standing on the stage with him would be pretty nifty. Not quite as nifty as if they did it Monday or Tuesday during the day, but nifty. I Hope they have the good sense to recognize the news value of the DNC officially calling him the presumptive nominee in John McCain's venue. Obama certainly understands the value of a good party in a great place at the right moment! LOL

Obama's campaign strategy and conduct has been exemplary. Ignoring the pithy actions of Clinton's campaign is the best and strongest course of action. (Plus it's really irritating them!)
According to latest comments from his campaign, I too believe it would better serve all if enough Supers came forward before end of vote count tomorrow to enable the 'voters' to push him over the top.

"Killing her softly," is not the way to go. Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be destroyed if we have any interested in the good of the country.

To put it bluntly, I have no problem with the Hillary Psychos voting for John McCain. They are not Democrats. The last thing the Democratic Party needs is a bunch of psycho old racist women. Hillary has never supported average Americans. She and Bill have spent their entire political lives supporting big business. It's called the DLC.

And consider that Billary appointed Greyer and
Ginsburg to SCOTUS. Both are right wing apologists and have done nothing to challenge the racist SCOTUS majority.

If we need to talk about assissination, HRC should be the target. The Billary crowd murdered RFK... Are we going to allow Billary to murder Obama? The Clintons have single handedly destroyed this country. After witnessing the psychos on Satudrday, I understand that average Americans are are the underdog compared to Hillary and McCain pyschos.