Where O'Bama picked up another delegate


14.5
PLEDGED DELEGATES
needed for a majority
(of pledged delegates)

115
TOTAL DELEGATES
needed for the nomination

Sparks Tribune

Faced with a vocal crowd of Obama backers, Clinton all but abandoned typical campaign rhetoric. He mentioned his wife's candidacy only briefly, and instead focused his comments on a call for party unity against the Republicans in November.

"Don't you forget why you came here. You did not go to all this trouble to have an argument with each other," Clinton said. "The argument is necessary so we can pick the best president and the most electable one. Those are the only two things that matter. ... After that, we have to get the show on the road, folks. We have a country to change and a future to secure."

That's more like it!

Some folks, most notably George bush and John McCain, seem to have lost sight of the fact that Obama and Clinton disagree on practically nothing whereas the American people and Obama agree that Bush is toxic

Now that O'Bama has pivoted, that will become all too clear

This race could be effectively over by the end of Obama's Acceptance Speech in Denver.

Exhibit A - The Obama Press Conference - McBush Evisceration Continues

Goin to the Chapel of Love!

Calfornia Supreme Court Overturns Same Sex Marriage Ban
Dogs and Muslims next????

Thing of it is..what's a right with a remedy?

I need a husband.

Eric Kleefeld, Paul Kiel...first come first served

Lieberman: Hillary's Threat To Bomb Iran Has A Certain Appeal To It

While we were sleeping it seems there's been a coup in the Democratic Party

Boy those in the Clinton machine must be pissed and looking for the exits to the New Regime

This is EXACTLY the plan. That was the overarching message at Camp Obama which trained cadres for the Primaries

Obama Organizing Fellows will carry on this summer for the general election.

ObamaNation - The Stunning Consolidation of the Democratic Party
by: Matt Stoller
 
You know all that old-style Washington politics preventing real change? As hard as it might be to handle, in a lot of ways he means that those of us who believe in partisan hard edged combat are part of an outmoded system. It doesn't actually divide cleanly; old hand Tom Daschle is a key figure and likely to be Obama's chief of staff, and Artur Davis is likely to be his Attorney General. These are old school Democrats, and Obama's machine is full of the Congressional wing of the party that lost out in 1992 to Clinton and his people.

This isn't a criticism; again, Obama made his bet that the country isn't into ideological combat and wants a politics of unity and hope, and he has won at internally. In terms of the 'Iron Law of Institutions', the Obama campaign is masterful. From top to bottom, they have destroyed their opponents within the party, stolen out from under them their base, and persuaded a whole set of individuals from blog readers to people in the pews to ignore intermediaries and believe in Barack as a pure vessel of change. It's actually very similar to Clinton from 1994-2000, where power and money in the Democratic Party is being centralized around a key iconic figure. He's consolidating power within the party.

Now here's the part that's unclear. Obama has successfully remade the Democratic Party already, and shown that old partisan Washington politics is over if you are a Democrat. Can he do that with Republicans? By stripping power, money and responsibility from outside groups and opponents, Obama is increasing his control of the party apparatus. He is also, however, putting everything on his own shoulders. When the Swift Boaters come back, and they will, it's all on Obama and his movement to hit back. He's betting that he can strip power from their base just as he stripped power from the old Washington way of doing politics within the Democratic Party.

Will he or won't he take public financing?

The answer is NO

He's  going wire to  wire with the ObamaNation

Obama Tells Major Donors Not to Fund Independent Groups

Donors and Democratic activists have been quietly debating Obama’s motives: Is he simply interested in keeping his Democratic efforts within his campaign, which is so well funded he doesn’t need outside help? Or is he, as some believe, cutting off funds to groups whose leaders – Brock and Podesta – some Obama aides view as too tightly linked to Clinton?

In either case, Pritzker’s words are the latest in Obama’s remarkably swift and complete consolidation of Democratic Party power. It’s an unprecedented seizure of control that has built him, over the course of a year, the most powerful field organization and the largest financial network in American politics, leaving many existing structures – traditional party organizations in many states, the Clintons’ long-nurtured national network – in the dust.

Just last summer, Matt Bai’s widely accepted analysis identified the “billionaires” and the “bloggers” as the key, emergent players in the Democratic Party’s infrastructure. But Obama has marginalized both groups. Pritzker’s words are part of a move to keep Obama’s grip on the sole important funnel of Democratic money this year. And his campaign has largely ignored the existing network of liberal bloggers, and actively opposes their embrace of fierce partisanship.

“Obama has created a number of significant infrastructure pieces through his campaign, displacing traditional groups the way he promised he would by signaling the end of the old politics of division and partisanship,” the blogger Matt Stoller wrote recently of Obama’s “consolidation of the party,” which he called “stunning.”

Mon cousin James Carville