The Test

Setting the stage for what's ahead, Obama is at $6.4 million and counting since the polls closed on Tuesday and Clinton, pleading poverty in revealing her Romney-like self-loan to the campaign and that her top staffers are now working for free, is reporting $3 million today.

While she's appearing up in the Gallup national poll, who knows what polls mean this year anyway, the electorate is in huge, volatile transition. Politico lists "5 reasons Hillary should be worried (in summary):

1. She lost the delegate derby.
2. She essentially tied Obama in the popular vote.
3. She lost more states.
4. She lost the January cash war.
5. The calendar is her enemy.

Andrew Sullivan has the most illuminating piece on Barack Obama's very meticulous plan to win the Presidency against all humongous odds, and how he's proving his Presidential steel by executing it against all attacks:

Perhaps the most telling critique of Obama, to my mind, is his lack of executive experience. (The same can be said for Clinton, of course, if you don't count the First Lady period, when she insists her husband was the president.) I asked him directly last year why a voter should back someone who has never run anything bigger than a legislative office. He responded by pointing to his nascent campaign. He observed out that he was up against the full Clinton establishment, all the chits she and her husband had acquired over the years, and the apparatus they had constructed within the party. He had to build a national campaign from scratch, raise money, staff an extremely complex electoral map, and make key decisions on spending and travel. He asked me to judge his executive skills by observing how he was managing a campaign.

I wanted to excerpt it all, but just click on the link above and read it for yourself. Obama is just wildly impressive, and he didn't vote for that fucking War.

The more this goes on the more corrupt it seems that she did. I know there was this McCarthyite pressure at the time, but it's a firm, well-articulated opposition that would have marked her as Presidential material. They say that there are only wonks and hacks in D.C., and while Hillary is certainly a wonk at heart, she's run her campaign like a hack, and she made that vote like a hack.

Obama's something different: he's an organizer. That's his background, that's how he thinks, and that's why everyone at Google, and all the candidates came to speak, think he's the only candidate who gets the way things work now, and leading into the future. And these are some of the smartest people on the planet in a room at one time, who know a thing or two about what really matters for success:

When asked about his perceived lack of experience for the White House, Obama drove home a point the audience could appreciate.

"Sergey and Larry didn't have a lot of experience starting this Fortune 100 company," he said of Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

Sorry, if things stay civil and Obama wins the nomination, I could support Hillary Clinton for Vice President, even over Jim Webb. But he's not to be wasted in that role, not under Bill Clinton.

America, Democrats, you're being tested:

Seize this moment.