Obama, the Democratic Nominee

1. There's no doubt now, Obama is going to be the Democratic nominee, and very likely the next president. I doubt if McCain has the sense of entitlement that HRC had but he's going to run on experience, and we don't want experience, we want intelligence, honesty and change.

2. Obama will show up once or twice in Kentucky and West Virginia, but it will be relaxed, he'll do big rallies, town halls, meetups, take a bowling lesson, shoot some hoops.

3. At the same time he'll tour the following states: Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, California, New Mexico, Colorado, Minnesota, Iowa, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin, Missouri, Illinois, Virginia. I must be leaving some out. The point -- illustrate for everyone who might have been listening to HRC that he gets that these are the important states for any Democrat, and it doesn't matter that HRC got more votes in some of these states, he plans to compete to win all of them. Campaigning in those states signals that he's on to the next phase of his candidacy.

4. Take a breather, prepare for HRC's concession, a big party somewhere, and then off to Europe in June to meet with the leaders of the western alliance. A motorcade down the Champs Elysees. The family visits with Gordon Brown's family. Pay respects to the Queen of England. Show the folks back home that in the Obama administration the US will have many challenges, but we'll also have lots of friends to help.

What else? Not sure. What do you think??

Comments

[daddydamon]

He should travel to Spain to repair relations there with the Spanish people, have an audience with King Juan Carlos. Visit NATO headquarters. Have a summit with Medvedev in Moscow. Go see the Pope in Rome. Stoop in to see the king in Saudi Arabia. Visit with the Indian pariament and then off to see the Japanese. Show that he is the one to repair American diplomacy. He shouldn't disparage Clinton, he should just forget about her. She is finally irrelevant.

[ShelleyD]

Obama won't have his speech writer's and rhetoric polishers with him on this" trip around the world", So his thoughts as well as his head will be empty.......He will be such an embarrassment to the American people........the man is not spontaneous .......he talks very slowly (almost sounds and looks like he is retarded) when he doesnt have the teleprompters or pre-written speaches in front of him.....sorry, but it is what it is.

[LionEater]

Maybe he should just not think before he speaks, and blurt something out like "We can obliterate Iran." That sounds a lot more intelligent....

[savagetiger]

Aaaahhh, a bitter Clinton supporter.

Sorry, you lost, get over it.

[metalpipe]

Bravo

[mindact]

We're really not worried about John McCain in the fall. Here's why, he's such an easy target to get swiftboated. If the repugs decide to play the Wright Ayers card, we will release the entire payload on John McCain.
We act as if the republican party are the only ones with the capability to swiftboat our opponents. We have well funded organizations that will turn McCain into an pantsy enemy collaborator (aka his vietnam days) in the fall. We also have the dirt on his drug addicted stepford wife. And oh get this, by the time we regurgitate how he abandoned his crippled wheelchair confined first wife, who stood by him b/w thick and thin for the shiny flashy rich lady he's walking around with as a trophy wife, there will be no woman on earth willing to vote for him. We don't even have to bring back his black love child given to us by George bush. Conservative will drop him like a bad habit....

This is even before we get into the policy issues. We just have to take the soundbites the DNC has been running both on the war and the economy a couple of notches up. Then the final indictment will be the picture of the oneness hug b/w GW and McCain. By the time we're done John McCain and George bush will be one and the same. If the republicans want to play dirty, in the words of George bush, bring it on

[metalpipe]

Then we would have to recover from lowering ourselves to their level. Is it worth the kharmic damage to our party?

[Krikkit]

You know what, Dave? Obama isn't the only one who is going to relax. I feel so much more relaxed today than yesterday, I can't begin to tell you. Although some supporters haven't gotten the memo yet, when they do, they'll start to relax, too. And that is the proverbial proof in the pudding that "a different kind of politics" can work, even when Obama's supporters (myself included) indulged in the occasional street brawl in defense of our candidate. But like a bunch of Irish cousins, I think maybe it's time we all sat down over a beer and a shot and got back to being a family again.

[queenisabella]

I feel exactly the same way, I feel so much better, relieved and happy- indeed a different kind of leadership was embraced by America, it is a crucial moment, it can only bring positive things for America and the rest of the world...I am sure we will unite behind him and beat Mc Cain.

[nsiah7]

The whole world is going to relax. America makes history and history is in the making. I feel so relaxed and happy. Love to all Americans.

[Krikkit]

Lol. America is my love child.

[ckemp]

Asia trip, definitely. It would help a great deal here.

[Desiderata]

Tonight I am disturbed by some talking head analysis. In particular the use of language on MSNBC's Verdict that barring a "castastrophic" event or "Act of God" (code words for assassination or plane crash?) Hillary will not be the nominee.

Let me tell all who think beyond today, if the hope ends for other than electoral reasons, the entire nation will erupt like Mt. St. Helens. Then Bush will excercise the Presidential Directive he drafted and signed in the summer of 2007. Under martial law, national elections will be canceled, and Bush/Cheney will remain in power and solely in charge of all government. And those interment camps built and still being built across America will be put to their planned use.

Is this why Bush dances? Is this why Cheney shrugs off the distrust of over 70 percent of the American people.? Do they see a tomorrow paranoids only think about? They certainly are giving no impression that they think their days in power are nearing the end.

What exactly is Hillary Clinton hoping will happen that may justify staying in the race?

And please, don't respond that I should not dare write of these things. It is the exposition of a possible future today that may make enough people take measures to see a horrible plan can never suceed.

[metalpipe]

I doubt the mass emotional makeup of the American public as it's stands today would contemplate revolution if Obama's is thrown off course for 'other than eletoral reasons', but I find your comment about BushCo's ability to suspend the elections through force an option that he and his cohorts in crime might actually consider plausible. Something the republican electorate would certainly forgive in the name of stopping this liberal, spiritually tainted, BLACK man from entering the White House. Stay tuned. George and his buddies still have at least 8 months to cause trouble.

[Krikkit]

Please don't get paranoid over this language. I've been saying the same thing since February. All it means is that if the campaign continues as is, Obama is the nominee. The only-est one way for it to change is if Obama is completely knocked out of the race, either because he is "unfit" to hold the office, or dies suddenly. "Unfit" means something like someone finding him standing over the corpse of his grandmother with a gun in his hand. As you can see, all this means is that he is the nominee, barring some dark catastrophe. It isn't some codewords for a conspiracy -- merely language of inevitability.

[5thGenDem]

I believe the proper term is "presumptive nominee," the term that has been applied to McCain for several months. Stuff happens, and the convention is months away.

[kavehdabashi]

this article puts a smile on my face. even if obama only makes it as far as the nomination, i will have witnessed a geological shift in american culture w/ my own eyes.

[Leota2]

I'm with you . . . . .

[blaqntelligence]

As I.

[NorVaGal]

Ditto.