He's been way content to let heavy-handed powerbrokers in the MSM and the states distort the process so he can be a nominee without scrutiny and without votes.

The arrogance to make a statement such as actual votes not being an accurate metric is THE MOST anti-democratic statement that he could possibly make.  They are insane, and the government he will setup will be ugly.  

It is amazing that everyday some idiotic shocker comes out of the Obama campaign and very few people in the MSM actually take it up.

The freaking arrogance.  It is gobsmacking.

As for myself, I am phone banking Oregon every spare minute I have.  Has no one considered the possibility that her wins in WVA and KY could steamroll into an Oregon win?  Even if he eeks by, to declare victory at that point is extremely dubious.  The last polls showed tightening, if I remember right.

But this is beyond disrespecting Hillary Clinton.  He is disrespecting the voters of MI and FLA.

I agree with what you're saying, but I'm worried about what McAuliffe is saying.  Unless he thinks 300 SDs (give or take) are going to declare for HRC.

But she's too "loyal".  

Just as the party, the media, and the process has been analogous to the "wife beater" who now explains that "he only did it because she deserved it", she's the beaten wife who always goes back to the husband.

AnninCA: The underlying message all along has been to redefine the Democratic party by ousting Clinton.

That's certainly the attitude Markos and Arianna and a lot of "progressive" bloggers have promoted. And as they toss the Clintons (and the "bitter" and unenlightened blue collar voters) out like trash, I'm following them out the door.

I honestly don't get it. Don't these people remember that the Democratic victories in 2006 depended on these very voters that Hillary has appealed to and Obama has alienated? We're not talking ancient history here. Can they possibly think the country has undergone a profound sea-change in two years, a change that renders a Kerry-Dukakis-Mondale kind of candidate electable?

That's why Obama could feel comfortable trashing Bill Clinton's presidency and vilifying Hillary.  And yes, the bloggers were in on it from the get-go (as was MoveOn).  They went into full attack mode, and I didn't understand why, at first.

They're betting we'll all accept it and embrace Obama.

"They are defying people to swallow it or vote Republican, counting on the fact that people are highly dissatisfied with the Republican party right now.  It's a risk they are willing to take."

That last sentence is key. The last two years since the 06 elections the meme has been that Dems can't lose this one because the Reps are so bad, the country fed up with them.

Really good read.....and I'd love to hear what you guys think.

She doesn't need him to help her pay her debt - she has a former president as a husband, they can go out and speak or send letters & emails - she will get the money to pay her debt over a couple of months.