sen. obama has won lots of caucuses, in little states, that will vote republican in nov. that's not to say those votes don't count, they do, but unless that's the sound of an ice sheet forming in hell that i hear, they won't mean a thing come the GE.

for that matter, many of the primary states he's won (can you say SC boys & girls? i knew that you could!) will also be a bright shade of red in nov.

They keep talking about caucuses as party building tools. Nothing could be further from the truth. The primaries in Texas and Ohio and Pennsylvania where everyone can go vote, because people have had enough of Bush, is what builds the party. Thousands of people don't register to spend the day caucusing. They register so they can go vote because they want to end the disaster we currently have in office.

"...Let's start paying attention to what the candidates say.... And the only thing we have to remember about Obama is the wonderful speech against the Iraq War he gave in 2002 when he was in the Senate. Al at 2:13 PM
Agreed: "Let me be clear: ending this war is not going to be easy. There will be dangers involved. We will have to make tactical adjustments, listening to our commanders on the ground, to ensure that our interests in a stable Iraq are met, and to make sure that our troops are secure." - Obama. By-the-way, Obama had other things to say about the Iraq war: He was hedging as late as 2006

....Would Obama have acted differently had he been in Washington or had he had the benefit
of the arguments and the intelligence that the administration was offering to the Congress
debating that resolution? During the 2002-2003 time frame, he was a minor local official
uninvolved in the national debate on the war so we can only judge from his own statements prior
to the 2008 campaign. Obama repeated these points in a whole host of interviews prior to
announcing his candidacy. On July 27, 2004, he told the Chicago Tribune on Iraq: "There's
not much of a difference between my position and George Bush's position at this stage." In
his book, The Audacity of Hope, published in 2006, he wrote, "...on the merits I didn't consider
the case against war to be cut-and- dried." And, in 2006, he clearly said, "I'm always careful to
say that I was not in the Senate, so perhaps the reason I thought it was such a bad idea was that I
didn't have the benefit of US intelligence. And for those who did, it might have led to a different
set of choices."....

Hmmm, sounds like equivocation, yes it does.

Who speaks for Obama? not Samantha?

....... a top Obama foreign policy advisor Samantha Power made the case on British television
(video link included) that Obama's pandering rhetoric on a withdrawal of troops from Iraq was
just that...:

while barack's kumbaya-ism is a bunch of silly happy happy nonsense

this kind of DLC-ish conventional wisdom has lead to the great wins of 1988, 2000, 2002, 2004, OOOPS on 2006!

AND HRC and bill caving to the right wing nuts for 16 years,

cuz the conventional wisdom of the carvilles / mcaulliffes / schrums ... is focused on compromising away everything.

yawn.