Comeback Kid

I may be wrong. Tuesday may be not as felicitous as I'd like for Sen. Barack Obama in Indiana and North Carolina.

But I'm starting to feel the comeback.

He's off the big stages and meeting with people again, like how he began this campaign. He's rolling on past "Wright" and "elitist":

“I hope I don’t get in trouble with your parents,” Obama told the kids whose hands he’d signed.

“Here comes the president,” shouted Austin, 12, who stuck around and later had Obama autograph his glove.

When Obama finally started to leave the parking lot, he announced, “I’m going to see if I might get a beer in there...”

...

“He made up my mind today,” the veteran said. “After meeting him he changed what I thought about him before. Mainly we need to get rid of what we’ve got.”

After talking to Sheneman, Obama noticed that the pool cameras were “blocking the bartender.” He looked at what the VFW members were drinking and announced: “I’m going to have a Bud.” He got some hazing and then Vic Vukovits, who works for Anheuser-Busch, shouted, “I’m going to vote for you if you drink Budweiser...”

...In the usual style, he worked the room and asked everyone where they served or what they do for work. He occasionally popped some nuts in his mouth.

Obama, sleeves rolled up and Bud can in hand, vigorously shook hands with ZZ-top-style goateed auxiliary VFW member Ken Boyer, 40, who was undecided before Obama came in. His main priorities for a president are someone that will create “just a good future, something better than what I have, for my three sons.”

“Things like this don’t happen in this town,” gushed Garrett Williams, an auxiliary member and mechanic sitting at the bar.

That's right. As if in direct response to the Newsweek cover featuring arugula (Obama) vs. beer (white working class voters), Obama went on the offensive and the now, yes, Barack Obama is the Presidential candidate you would most like to have a beer with.

(Maybe slam whisky shots one night with Hillary after this is all over and she's back in the Senate.)

And it doesn't hurt to be only about 75 superdelegates away from being the presumptive nominee.

But what gives me the greatest hope tonight, is the signal switch from former DNC head under President Bill Clinton, Indiana's Joe Andrews, from his former endorsement of Hillary Clinton today to Barack Obama, calling for fellow superdelegates to come out of the closet and end this process:



We've got something very unusual going on here, a generational change. It never goes as smoothly as the old order handing power to around to its factions. This was never going to be easy.

He's fighting to become America's champion.