Come now, I think we can all agree there’s a huge difference between “confidence and optimism” and a total blindness to anything that disagrees with his world view.
-Joe
Here you go:
Just be aware, if you’re an Obama supported, the campaign sent out a missive instructing people not to contact supers unless they were your Rep, Senator, Gov, etc…
Thanks for the link. I see a number of our CA supers have announced for Obama, a letter urging them to change couldn’t hurt.
No, see the trick is to embue the nation with your confidence and optimism. John Kennedy did that. Jimmy Carter didn’t. Ronald Reagan did that. George Bush didn’t. Obama will. There’s a difference between being stubborn and being confident, and between being cocksure and being optimistic.
I’m sure my rep, John Lewis, wouldn’t mind hearing from one of his constituents. 
And a key factor in this is being right - or at least admitting when you are wrong. GWB was horribly wrong about Iraq, and has yet to admit it. He can have all the personal confidence in world, but it will not translate to confidence in him by the public.
And this is the deciding factor for me between Clinton and Obama. On the one major difference we have between them, supporting the invasion of Iraq circa 2002, he was right and she was wrong.
Perfectly put. Obama is the kind of person the can change a nation without doing a damn thing.
He said as much iin a few speeches I’ve heard from him. Along the lines of ~“I’m gonna work at changing things but so do you. You’ll have to work hard but we are the people we’ve been waiting for”(<----I love that bit).
All he was short of saying was “Ask not what …” 
He would have lost me with that, I’m afraid. The state exists to serve the individual, as far as I’m concerned, not the other way around.
Very interesting.
In my home state, the superdelegates commitments are as follows: Governor Tim Kaine and US Reps Rick Boucher and Bobby Scott have announced they support Senator Obama.
DNC members Terry McAuliffe, Jennifer McClellan, Mame Reiley, Lionel Spruill Sr., and Susan Swecker have announced their support for Senator Clinton.
And Senator Webb, Virginia Democratic Party Chairman C. Richard Cranwell, and Virginia AFL-CIO President Jim Leaman are uncommitted at present.
So my state has 11 superdelegates. 3 are for Obama, 5 for Clinton, and 3 undecided.
Why the President of the Virginia AFL-CIO is a superdelegate is a question I’ll leave for another time.
I’m hoping that, if Obama begins to pull ahead in earned delegates, someone like, oh, Jon Stewart, might begin to call attention to the superdelegate issue and help put some public pressure on those delegates.
I love that, too. What’s really cool about it, is that it comes from the Elders Oraibi of the Arizona Hopi Nation.
If it makes you feel any better, his initials are actually BHO, but from what I’ve seen, the only folks who use his middle name - Hussein - are folks who despise him.
Latest New York Times committed delegate count, via today’s local paper: Clinton 905, Obama 703. Your milage will vary.
Looks to me like Obama will have to snag 55-60 percent of the delegates up for grabs in the remaining primaries just to pull even with Clinton. Certainly possible, but probably not the cakewalk many now seem to think it is.
Personally, I don’t think the superdelegate eggs should be counted until they’re hatched. After all, these folks can change their minds.
According to CNN, Obama has 635 pledged compared to Hillary’s 630, excluding the superdelegates.
I got an electric shot of energy when I heard that in my car. I thought it was awesome. It should be his solgan.
Why the hell is the Democratic delegate-apportioning system so unbelievably byzantine? It blows my mind that we’re 36+ hours from the end of voting and nobody really knows who has what yet.
It’s Clinton 900, Obama 800.
No, it’s Obama 635, Clinton 610.
No, it’s Clinton 1015, Obama 999.
No, it’s Obama 845, Clinton 844, but that doesn’t count supersecretdoubledogdelegates, who may or may not vote a certain way in the end, but are definitely pledged if they were holding a blue flag when they declared who they were supporting under the light of the full moon…
ARG!
Depends on what you mean by “your country.” If you’re talking about the State (government), I’m with you; but if you’re talking about the USA as a society, I respectfully disagree.
Well, I’m just relating my experience. I’ve already read the things you’ve cited, thank you very much, and I agree with them. I’m just saying what my experience is.
I’ve already seen it long ago, and I like it. But unfortunately, I don’t think he’s going to get very far with it.
Yes, I agree, but Obama is still a political operator. He’s just outside of the national Democratic Party establishment. Once you become president, by necessity you become a major, national political operator. I support him for the same reasons that Liberal supports him. I’m just trying to say that I don’t fall for the image spin.
Because he, too, is a member of the DNC.
I’m OK with either candidate. This is a rare, and very welcome, instance of my not worrying that “my” candidate might not win, that things I want done won’t happen otherwise, that I don’t have to feel like I’m against the other one, that we’ll be all right either way. It’s much nicer this way, really. I’m not quite as convinced that there as many Obama supporters who feel that way as do Clinton supporters, though.
I’d prefer that the democratic process work itself out more - and come on, it’s only a few weeks until March 4 (Texas and Ohio).