Hillary's mantra is: I'm tested. I'm ready from day 1. She bills herself as the master manager.

Obama's mantra is: Together we can. He bills himself as the master inspirer.

All substance and no fluff say Hillary's supporters.

Here's what I say and what the evidence shows for Obama: Inspiration and a master politician with real substantive heft. What's the evidence? Why how they've run their campaigns.

Hillary started as way ahead in all the polls the better known, the inevitable candidate. What did she do? Ignore the red states, thereby continuing the divide between Them and Us. Failed to build a true grass roots organizations even in states such as Maine which she should have won. Failed initially to raise any money from the real voters, relying instead on those who give large bucks to buy access. And finally, blew through $175 million she had raised for her campaigns (senatorial and now for president) without even knowing she was doing it.

But also she relies on a narrower and narrower base. It was brilliant to show contempt for and alienate the Black vote by trying dismiss Obama's win there as just Blacks voting for one of their own (as if Hillary hadn't expect to and didn't have the majority of the Black support until then). Why they are just 20% of the Democratic party's most loyal electorate and not likely to forgive her or old Bill for that. So she decided to go after the Latino vote. Although she seems to forget that until recently they have not voted in as great numbers. In all events she began to lose the Latino vote in the Potomac primaries. Never mind, she tell us, I'll get them back in Texas. Well maybe, but since they have historically voted in lesser numbers than Blacks have in Texas,and since delegates are allocated based on districts with greater past voting strength in Texas, the Latino vote, even if it goes overwhelmingly for Hillary, won't be able to pull her chestnuts out of the fire. And what does she do going into the Texas primary? Fire her Latina campaign manager. Brilliant. Just brilliant. And replace her with whom? A Black woman, after she has thoroughly pissed off the Black vote.

Hey never mind the Black/Latino alleged divide... she can count on White women, but only if they are over the age of 45. And the blue collar vote she believes. Let's say she is right. Does she really believe that these Reagan Democratic type voters represent the future of the Democratic party or given the chance won't they flock

Taken all in all her campaign has demonstrated strategic idiocy. She perhaps can still pull of the Democratic nomination, BUT

Ready from Day 1? I don't think so. A great manager? You don't say. If she runs our budget the way she has run her own, she'll be a repeat of the Republicans, won't she?

Now, let's look at what Obama has done. He billed himself as the catalyst for change. So what is the first thing he does? Recognizes the power of the internet as a great new tool for organizing, raising money from small donors and bringing people together. His website allows people to get involved, while trusting them to do their own thing, to create events, to put together fund raisers without control from the top. It faciliates grass roots involvement.

Then he ignores no state. He goes to and wins in the so called Red States and he wins by massive margins. He understands that in order to create change, he has to expand the base and transform the electorate. And he does just that, firing up the Democratic base which Hillary has ignored in the Red States and pulling Independents and even moderate Republicans who know this country is in trouble as he goes. So much for "false hopes."

And compare his core supporters to Hillary"s... the younger, more educated... people who think more for themselves, are less afraid of change, less likely to desert to the Republican hero in the general election because they need and want reassurance.

And finally, just as Hillary and McCain start pounding him on lack of specifics (although there were always specifics aplenty for those who cared to look at his website), just after he really has built an amazing base of enthusiastic, grass roots supporters, coming off the Potomac primary clean sweep with amazing margins, cutting into Hillary's core constituency, he begins to get specific in Wisconsin, the progressive state, but one that is a meat and potatoes state, at a GM car plant on the day that GM has reported huge losses: a green jobs program, a bank for infrastructure redevelopment, student education for public serviced pay back. So much for all rhetoric and no substance. But look he has built a mandate at least in the terms of the primary to start making a case for the changes he would propose.

You could not have scripted Obama's campaign better and what better insight into how the two would govern.

You don't have to be a Hillary hater not to want her to win and to want desperately that Obama wins... just look at the best evidence we have of how they would bring about real change. Obama has revolutionized modern campaigns. Hillary, who has been battle tested in 2 successful prior presidential campaigns, has failed miserably by any and all measures. With such a record in the primaries, what would make anyone think she could beat McCain even in this year that people hunger and are ready for transformational change in the very nature of our politics. Hillary cannot get out of the mindset of We vs. Them. Obama can and has shown us how to do it. Go Man, GO!