I honestly can't figure out why on earth GD: P has gotten so hysterical

[Political Heretic]

Both sides seem to be operating like they just drank six power drinks.

I am calmly, cooly sitting back here with the simple understanding that very little has changed in the dynamics of the race. Most likely things will go as they were always expected to - Obama will take NC and Hillary will take IN. I wish it would be different, but that's not as likely.

There are no remaining states in serious play. Clinton has the states she will win pretty much locked, and so does Obama.

Obama will end the primary season with the most states won, the most pledged delegates, the most popular vote and the most money to face McCain with in the fall. Of all these indicators, probably the most serious one is the money. The DNC has only 5 million dollars. The gap between the DNC and the RNC is 26 million.

I'm not exactly sure what the big deal is.

[EmilyAnne]

1. Post traumatic stress disorder stemming from the last 7 1/2 years under Bush.

Stolen elections, 9-11, Swiftboaters, a recession, Abu Ghraib, two wars, Walter Reed, Terry Schiavo, a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, New Orleans, etc.
Its really insane when you think of all of the ugliness we have witnessed in less than 8 years.

We are all so desperate to get this country on track, yet we fear that the possibility can be so easily stolen. We've seen great men with great potential completely trashed for nonexistent, media created offenses (Howard Dean). Its terrifying. I think a lot of us are afraid that if we stop being hysterical, we'll all get complacent, and this election will be stolen right out from under our noses again. Its scary.

[Political Heretic]

2. Great reminder about Howard Dean. Sigh. Gee, thanks a lot.

:scared:

[stratomagi]

3. Yeah, I haven't found much substantive or new to post about

and the Wright thing just bores me to tears at this point.

[mcctatas]

4. Sometimes (when I crawl out of the muck and mire that is GDP)

I think, is it hillary I don't want to win, or is it her snarkier supporters that I want to lose....
In all honesty, on the nights when I think it's both I know it's time to take a break!

[smalll]

5. Fair post. But what you have to realize is that there is a real chance now for things to shift -

if Hillary can somehow edge out Obama in NC (as well as win Indiana) -- Hillary could actually take this thing.

PLUS, although only a few here have mentioned it, we really all are tingling with suspense right now: Hillarites who can't quite dare to hope, and Obamatrons who can't stomach the thought -- that Wright will Strike Back.

Think how this has played out:
1) Wacky sermon snippets hit prime-time.
2) Obama gives the Philly speech, carefully putting some distance between himself and Wright.
3) Wright gets a little pissed - the "I'm a pastor, he's a politician" answer to Moyers - then throws caution to the winds in the NAACP/NPC parade of wackiness (black brains, white brains, bad Kennedy impressions, the AIDS-from-the-government thing, etc.)
4) Obama has no choice but to do the Tuesday Smackdown.

A fifth act seems necessary and likely, doesn't it? Will Wright roar back? He's been silent for a day and a half now so far. And the most breathtaking part of the whole thing is, in the Tuesday Smackdown, probably the biggest diss Obama shot at Wright was the pod-people defense -- "The man I saw yesterday was not the man I've known for 20 years." Obama basically said Wright's gone crazy, senile or both. AND IF WRIGHT HITS BACK ON JUST THAT POINT -- well, GAME OVER. SuperD Tsunami to Hillary. Game over. 'Course, Wright may finally have clammed up. We'll see.

So everyone's just a little on edge.

(I can just see it now ... at another live-on-CNN event to another Wright-friendly crowd (there was a pro-Wright claque at the NPC)...

"Senator Obama said, he said: "The man I saw yesterday was not the man I've known for 20 years." (Then a beat or two on a Wright-style double-take) "Senator Obama sat in my pews for 20 years" (Preach it, brother!) "He came to Jesus through me." (Amen!) "I baptized him. I married him. I baptized his children. He was a DISCIPLE of mine!" (Tell it!) "When they asked him about me, he was silent. But when they asked him about me again, then again -- he DENIED me! By the time the cock crowed three times, he denied me! Oh Peter, faithless Peter! The disciple becomes the denier! I was his pastor. Him?" (Maybe a nice brush-the-dust-off-the-shoulder move at this point) "Just another politician." (The audience erupts into stormy applause.) "Render unto God that which is God's; render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's -- Barack forgets God, now that his sights are set on becoming this American Empire's next Caesar! But what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" (More stormy applause)

[Political Heretic]

11. Fair post back too.

Thanks for the thoughts.

[emilyg]

6. It's the Red Bull.

[mcctatas]

7. ....

:rofl:

[Political Heretic]

12. So I missed this story... what is this all about?

[CakeGrrl]

8. The media is propping up HRC and won't put a reality check on the PDs and popular vote

So Clinton supporters are pinning their hopes on the Wright crap to scare the SDs into doubting Obama's "electability" and handing the nomination to Clinton, whose negatives poll higher than McCain and Obama.

:crazy:

The money's a good point. The SDs aren't blinded by desire to put HRC in the WH as her supporters are. They see who's making the money, managing the money well and bringing new voters into the process. Good move by the Obama campaign to get the jump on working out a deal with the DNC.

[barack the house]

9. It is the end of times I tell ya. *pulls out hair* ok I'm calm noew.

[barack the house]

10. The back and forth of debate is invigorating and I hold no malice to Hillary supporters, just

un asy at Rovian tactics.