All the cable news networks will be there, for sure.  I'd be interested in knowing how many Clinton supporters will show up.  
Also, who's presenting the Clinton sales pitch?

We can all talk about how ridiculous this popular vote nonsense is, and yes,  it really is nonsense.  

But the Clintons have been marketing false perception for quite some time.   

And that perception, regardless of reality, is undercutting the legitimacy of Obama's inevitable nomination.  (as others here have pointed out.)

You can't argue with the delegate math but you can weaken the perception of its value.  

Thousands of their most loyal supporters are buying it too.  

The Clintons are in a state of denial and that state has a trickle down effect. 

This has been going on since February/March 2008, when the Clintons did the math themselves and realized Sen. Clinton lost the legitimate path to the nomination.   

Actually, their denial goes back to early 2007 when Barack Obama entered the presidential race.  In a Washington Post article that ran in February 2007, David Axelrod laid out the path Obama was going to take to win the nomination:

Obama advisers said their campaign for the nomination may be more unconventional than Sen. Clinton's. "I think that the path to get there has to do with our ability to inspire a lot of people to get involved in this process who have not been involved, or who may have been involved once but lost heart," said David Axelrod, the campaign's chief strategist. "We have to give people a real sense of investment so that the electorate will maybe look a little different."

They've been underestimating Obama for over a year.  It's an arrogance that just won't quit.  

He won Iowa.  They said caucuses don't matter.  He won ten states in a row.  They said he only wins small states.  He can't win big states.  

I think it was a few weeks before the Pennsylvania primary when I first heard this Clinton campaign line:  The road to Pennsylvania Avenue goes through Pennsylvania.  

I've heard them use that same line, just switching the state to the one they happened to be campaigning in at the time.  The road to Pennsylvania Avenue goes through (your state here).

That's one really long circuitous road they're traveling on.  And as it turns out, it doesn't lead to Pennsylvania Avenue after all.

But don't tell them that.  

Now they're promoting their "every vote counts" tour.  It's getting a lot of press coverage and despite the fact that it is a fallacy, it has created a wave of support which has only intensified the division among democrats.  Last I heard, tens of thousands of Hillary fans will descend upon the highly promoted May 31st MI and FL showdown.  

Hundreds of thousand of Hillary supporters really believe that   Obama is trying to suppress the votes in FL and MI.  

Ridiculous, I know.  So do the superdelegates.  

But just because it's not  true doesn't mean people won't buy into it.  

To the people who do, June 3rd is meaningless.  It's not the end of the primary.  

But it is the end of the primary.  Barack Obama will have likely secured enough delegates to win the nomination.  

Reality doesn't just sink in on its own.  

Someone needs to start promoting it.    

 I'm an Obama supporter.  I'm offering some constructive criticism.  

Here's the problem:

At any given moment during the day, I know exactly where the Clinton campaign stands on an issue.  I know their every response to the ongoing MI and FL issue.  As it evolves. Howard Wolfson, Terry McAuliffe and surrogates like Lanny and Ed Rendell blitz the media with what's going on from there point of view.  

But the Obama campaign is often nowhere to be found.  

Sure, you can go to his website and find out his generic stands on issues, or updates as to where he's campaigning, but it's only a one way street.  

But there's no real-time question/answer mechanism.  Or timely guidance as to how he'd like to guide his supporters online.  

There's an immense amount of support for Obama on the blogs but he doesn't personally address us as a community. It drove me crazy back when the Rev. Wright stuff was going on and Obama was nowhere to be found. He eventually handled the situation well, but why doesn't he communicate with us?

I'm part of mybarackobama. com, and all I get are generic emails many asking for money but only one ever asked for feedback.   

I've been following this race as closely as any other, yet if someone were to ask me where Obama really stands on the MI and FL issue, I'd have to say I don't know. I honestly don't know if Obama holds a principled stand on this. It's hard for me to make the argument that the DNC should uphold its rules when the candidate I support is waiting it out, hoping for some sort of compromise. No one from their campaign has stood firm and said this is a load of crap.

None of us should have to wonder what the Obama campaign would want us to do as a community.  I think it was only today when we heard indirectly about not protesting Saturday's meeting.  

He needs to communicate more effectively with his millions of supporters online.

That is, if he really means that this campaign isn't about him, it's about us.

Now I know he's run a brilliant campaign and he's got a million things to do to reach out to voters in every state.  

But he needs to personally reach out to the online community, and not just for money.   

I'm listening to a speech being given by John McCain about, what else, war, enemies and fear.  The familiar rhetoric is brought out--democrats want to surrender--some people think we can just sit down and talk to our enemies and make nice--and you know the rest.  
Obama has done a good job at calling McCain out on these empty arguments.   
Every reporter and blogger and American citizen should poke through the warmongering talking points and ask the questions that render them senseless.  
This week, the administration has drummed up the rhetoric about war with Iran.  There was a report issued by the IAEA that Iran isn't cooperating in answering questions about their nuclear programs.  
Today, McCain is trotting out Iran's alleged non-compliance as something that can't be tolerated. 
I've read the IAEA report, and while I'm no expert, Iran has in fact, been cooperative.  Yes, there are still questions.  But the U.S. tends to trump them up.  Right before U.N. meetings to determine sanctions come up, the U.S. presents some new questionable evidence of Iran's commitment to build a nuclear weapon.  Iran has no time to address it,  and further sanctions are made.  
Iran has a civil nuclear energy program, and that is their right.  They enrich uranium for this peaceful energy process, as does every country that has the same kind of program.  
They can't be forced to give this up yet that is exactly what the U.S. is insisting they do.  
The U.S. arrogantly claims that Iran has no need for nuclear energy because they have oil.  
I don't need to explain how specious an argument that is. 
They say that other countries will ship nuclear fuel in, so Iran has no need to make it themselves.
Iran is a free country, I'm not sure the U.S. can dictate how other countries in the world create energy.  
Iran is a dangerous actor in the world.  I don't deny that.  I also don't deny that the U.S. in many ways can be a dangerous actor in the world.  
I don't know how to reconcile all this.  I do know that the policies of the last eight years have made everything worse.  And now that I hear McCain, another great simplifier beating the war drums, I just want to make sureit doesn't go unquestioned.

Leave it to the Clintons to ride on the coattails of someone else's devastating tragedy.  Sen. Clinton has mentioned RFK's assassination before in this campaign for her own benefit, to further her own cause.   She's too arrogant to recognize how she could have possibly offended anyone. There is only one victim in Hillary's world.  She holds all the victim cards and uses them whenever she can't stand the heat in the proverbial kitchen she always talks about. 
I'm not willing to give her one more inch on the path to our democratic nomination.  
And I have two valid reasons:  
She lost.  
And she's lost her mind.  
Exit stage left.

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