Barack Obama has the best political team the Democrats have

[rzemanfl]

put together in my lifetime (and I will be 61 on Obama's birthday). One hundred thousand people contributed to his campaign in one day. He is not in this thing to lose to a nasty, short, borderline senile, angry old man with nothing but platitudes to offer and a brand name that is in the toilet on its way to the sewer. Barack will turn the tables at a time and in a manner of his own choosing. We will all be saying, "Wow! that was frickin' brilliant." In the meantime, enjoy the desperation of the McCain campaign. It can only dominate the news cycle by behaving like complete and utter ass wipes. Obama knows he has to win by a margin too big for it to be stolen from him and he will do so.

[MoJoWorkin]

1. This 63 year old totally agrees with you.

I have been working for Democratic campaigns since I was 15, and walked door to door for JFK.

All these hand wringers need to get out and knock on doors and register voters. I am proud to still be doing that here in SW MO---this time for Barack!

[NYC_SKP]

3. Alright Pops...

I'm just 51 but agree wholeheartedly with you and the OP.

:kick:

[rzemanfl]

5. Kids and their fancy computer graphics. n/t

[MoJoWorkin]

7. I am a Grandma, but you can call me POPs if you want. LOL

[rzemanfl]

8. Women have mojo? Don't tell Austin Powers. n/t

[MoJoWorkin]

13. Well, I don't believe mojo had a gender bias, back in the day. LOL

At least not the meaning of my mojo. I am Jo from MO. I also used the old song: " I Got My Mojo Workin', It Just Don't Work on You," first popularized by Muddy Waters and later by many other artists, including Elvis, in my heyday of the 60's and 70's. Mojo meant a charm or ability to persuade... not attributed to either sex specifically that I knew of, then.

I believe that 'mojo' was initially a bag of charms, so I can see why one would think it applies only to the male of the species.

I must admit, I have not seen any Austin Powers movies---they aren't my thing.
I guess that makes me REALLY old, doesn't it!

[rzemanfl]

18. You need to see them. They are funniest for folks who lived

through the sixties.

[NYC_SKP]

17. Here's the mistake I always make.

Your avatar.

I thought you were a handsome black man who looked young for his age.....and quite presidential!

:hi:

[mloutre]

15. Yeah! What GrannyPops and SantaPup said!

[flamingdem]

2. Happy Birthday and positive wishes for you from now until Nov.! nt

[rzemanfl]

4. I fear the period from November to January 20th may be more

stressful than the period from now until November. I foresee fires in goverment building and mysterious hard drive eating bugs attacking government computers.

[flamingdem]

9. Yikes..

.. so you think O will win but there will be sabotage, hadn't thought of that. The beginning period should be fairly edgey..

[rzemanfl]

10. Has this administration ever played by the rules? n/t

[rzemanfl]

11. Not sabotage, evidence destruction, blamed on electrical faults

and terrorists.

[KharmaTrain]

6. The Ground Game Always Wins

I feel like a kid again...just 52...but my first campaign was LBJ vs. Goldwater and worked my first election at 16. I agree, that that this is the best organized and operated campaign a Democrat has run in my lifetime. Living near Chicago, I've seen Senator Obama's career rise from State Senator to my Junior Senator and on to the White House. He has some of the best political activists and operatives...veterans of the Chicago "council wars" of the 80's...working for Harold Washington...who created a coalition of progressives and grassroot Democrats to beat "the machine".

Their key has always been a strong ground game. That's what helped him win in Iowa and then take the other caucuses. His campaign has shown an ability to energize voters and get them to the polls and now have a fully-funded 50-state operation. The job isn't easy, but it will be very rewarding...and the more people who can get involved, the better...and also should make that person feel proud of what they're doing and be a part of history.

The corporate media pays little attention to what's going on outside the beltway bubble...and apparently the repugnicans aren't or can't either. The Democratic base is energized...hell most of us wish the election were tomorrow...while the GOOP needs to pull stunts to generate faux outrage in a vain attempt to energize theirs. Democrats outvoted the GOOP in the primaries by large margins and many of those voters will be back in November...and the Obama campaign will make sure they are.

In the meantime, let Gramps keep up his tantrums and attacks...let's see how long he can keep up this "intensity" before he implodes or becomes irrelevant.

Cheers...

[Political Heretic]

12. I have way more confidence in the Obama campaign than I do in DU analysis. :)

Nothing personal - just the truth.

[BlooInBloo]

14. Yup.

[kennetha]

16. I think you'd better hold off on that judgment.

Right now it looks to me like the only truly brilliant thing Obama has done is realize that he could roll up votes in the caucus States and win the nomination with a phalanx of younger and upscale dems plus and overwhelming AA support. I'm not sure at all that his GE campaign does end in flames. Primaries and GE are vastly different things as some have pointed out here and what works in one is not at all guaranteed to work in the other.

[rzemanfl]

19. I disagree, he also has a fantastic fundraising apparatus and the

planning of the trip to the Middle East and Europe was brilliant, except for Landstuhl, were he was set up by the civilian masters of the military to be damned if he did and damned if he didn't.

[cliffordu]

20. This 56 year old agrees.

He did the same thing when Hillary had him "finished" by going negative.

Get ready for the counterpunch. It should be breathtaking.

[Califooyah Operative]

21. Indeed. nt

[Mme. Defarge]

22. This 60 year-old

hopes and prays you know whereof you speak.