Crazy

Seems like everything is hitting the fan now that Obama is starting to look a hell of a lot more inevitable, and the moment after McCain says he's no longer superstitious about saying he's won the GOP nomination.

I'm not interested in pontificating on the whole McCain thing because if it's just about cheating, I just think that's dirt. He hasn't been the leading morality demagogue in his party, and I'd be hypocritical since I gave Bill Clinton a pass -- until it cost Gore the election -- for Monica Lewinsky. And if it turns out to be an influence scandal, I'd like all the facts and scale of corruption to be in.

What is interesting is whether everyone in that tier of the GOP already knew. Why did Huckabee have his email ready to distribute just ninety-six minutes after the New York Times story went live? Why did Willard Romney merely "suspend" his campaign?

Why do the physical similarities between Cindy McCain and the woman being cited with him automatically raise our suspicions?

While that all percolating, Obama's fighting back against Hillary Clinton's same ol' same ol' tactics:

“Senator Clinton told us that there was a choice in this race, and, you know, I couldn’t agree with her more,” Mr. Obama said. “It’s not a choice between speeches and solutions; it’s a choice between a politics that offers more of the same divisions and distractions that didn’t work in South Carolina and didn’t work in Wisconsin and will not work in Texas, or a new politics of common sense, of common purpose, of shared sacrifice and shared prosperity.”

As she sounds like more and more of a bummer:

“We need to keep dreaming; dreaming keeps us hopeful,” Mrs. Clinton said. “Without dreams we can’t aspire to be great, but without action we cannot turn those dreams into reality.”

The problem isn't her basic premise. Words do need actions to close. But the problem is that her campaign is increasingly the prime offender in this category. Not winning, not delivering a coherent, appealing message, not mounting an effective campaign = no action.

Here's a prediction: Obama's campaign, particularly in how it took on that of the market leader, Hillary Clinton, from scratch, will not only be studied in political science, it will become a prime case study in business schools everywhere.

It turns out his organization raised $36 million dollars in January alone, a new world's record, and has now hit over one million donors (1,000,000), meaning a record number of Americans are now literally invested in Obama's success now, financial partners. And I wonder if his campaign is so effectively getting out the Early Vote in Texas (he made it a big part of his speech in Houston Tuesday night), that he may have this thing won even before Primary Election Day in two weeks.

If you need any more proof that Barack Obama is going to beat Hillary Clinton by a landslide in Texas, here's the photo taken just about one year ago today.