After a long week of speeches and campaign stops, is Illinois Sen. Barack Obama headed for the beach this weekend? (Fame Pictures )
I am putting this up to illustrate one of the most remarkable aspects of the Obama campaign .. its restraint. Obama's youth and his body are irrelevant attribute rs that are totally appropriate for the campaign .. but unused/ He is off to the Virgin Islands for a three day vacation .. will the campaign use images like this to create the obvious contrast t his elderly and female opponents? I doubt it but who knows?
This restraint is also illustrated by the recent endorsement of the Obama by Bill Richardson. The Governor explained his choice in terms that praised Obama but also disparaged the nature of the Clinton campaign.
Richardson clearly meant , the Clintonista sense of entitlement trumping everythng else. That asense was summed up, I fear, by this remark of James Carville:“Mr. Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic,” How sad.
In the meantime from Politco:
One big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic presidential race: Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of winning.
Her own campaign acknowledges there is no way that she will finish ahead in pledged delegates. That means the only way she wins is if Democratic superdelegates are ready to risk a backlash of historic proportions from the party’s most reliable constituency.
Unless Clinton is able to at least win the primary popular vote — which also would take nothing less than an electoral miracle — and use that achievement to pressure superdelegates, she has only one scenario for victory. An African-American opponent and his backers would be told that, even though he won the contest with voters, the prize is going to someone else.
People who think that scenario is even remotely likely are living on another planet.
As it happens, many people inside Clinton’s campaign live right here on Earth. One important Clinton adviser estimated to Politico privately that she has no more than a 10 percent chance of winning her race against Barack Obama, an appraisal that was echoed by other operatives.
In other words: The notion of the Democratic contest being a dramatic cliffhanger is a game of make-believe.
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