Sack Up

I have just two words for any Barack Obama supporter disheartened by tonight's results, and they are the not only the same words I'd have for Senator Obama, if he wasn't already acting on them and providing such proper leadership himself: sack up.

Hillary Clinton did. She lost Super Tuesday, lost eleven straight states after that (twelve if you count Vermont) but she sacked up and soldiered on, in her own distasteful way. She's banking on some sort of Obama collapse, power to convince the highest of the Democratic elite, or her own "kitchen sink", that code name for dirty tricks on her opponent, even darkening his skin in ads for a little racist bump.

The thing is, he may have more room to grow as a candidate, but he's not collapsing.

He's sacking up:



Two weeks ago, where was he in the Texas and Ohio polls? Ten and twenty points behind? And where was Sen. Clinton on January 7th of this year, not even two months ago? The presumptive nominee?

Rock on to Pennsylvania and all the way to Puerto Rico, I say. All the way to Denver if need be.

There are others with more suggestions for Sen. Obama on how to close the deal. Some more aggressive than others. It's all valid. Obama has to find the line between aggressive and Clinton-style sleaze, because even if she accuses him of doing something somehow underhanded that throws into doubt his master campaign message, that of clean change, it doesn't matter as long as it isn't true.

He's got the numbers. While she wasn't looking, wasn't ready on Day One (New Hampshire) or Days from South Carolina until tonight, he secured the lead in the all-important delegate count -- under the rules the Clintons intending to secure her early victory. He's got more money than her, and for all her campaign crows about the big nothing with Tony Rezko, from much less oligarchic sources. From over one million regular American citizens.

She earned her confetti night. Now if we all just sack up like Sen. Obama does in the speech above (I recommend 7:20, when he links Clinton and McCain forever), he will be elected the Democratic nominee and the next President of our great United States of America.

After all, other great Democratic Presidents have earned it through bruising nomination battles.

She wants to fight?

Let's fight.