...form an independent coalition based on a comprehensive and straight-to-the-issues change platform. F§%£ the demographics and the popularity.

Even then it will take an event to unshake the sclerosis in the US electorate, i.e., a massive failure in the economy, which is not unlikely given Bernanke's boy-wonder experiments at the moment.

The world is likely more concerned and dismayed this evening than it seems the US. Turn off your televisions and laptops and think for a moment.

It is over for Obama's chances in the Democratic Party.

If he stays, he will become shortly half the man he is now. He has not yet grown into his shoes, so it is best if he steps back and takes sound counsel before moving forward. He began to make mistakes in the past two weeks as Hillary played a brilliant and mendacious media game against him. Obama lost his chance to win the key states' Women, Catholics, Mommies, Hispanics and even many Blacks today.

McCain is a geriatric, even if his record is more honourable than his current utterances and AIPAC-prepared notes.

The Clintons will not become sweeter. They are Narcissists and they will end as old Narcissists. They are more of the same, and serious investors in the world have had enough and want change.

Obama carried the one set of ideas and the best advisors that held promise to deliver change. If at all viable, consider breaking the two-party game and going indie.

You'll never get the big hit with one of the major studios. Especially, when they are AIPAC directed.

Obama could go golfing for the next three months and still win the Democratic nomination. Clinton exceeded most everyone's expectations yesterday and still only managed to net 8 delegates. To put this in perspective, Obama netted 9 delegates in Washington, D.C. alone. He will more than make up for his losses yesterday in the Wyoming and Mississippi primaries next week. Clinton cannot win and I have a hard time envisioning McCain beating Obama in a head-to-head match up.

Interesting argument

In Obama's speech last night in San Antonio (that's in Texas for all of you folks from the North), he was much more issues-centered than in prior talks, and hopefully someone got to him and said "LOOK, the message of hope has been great and has pushed a lot of people together and in your direction, but now we have to start talking nuts and bolts!"

At least I hope thats what happened. Last night was the best thing to happen for him. Kinda like the team that goes undefeated most of the season, then get's beat right before the playoffs---they lose that sense of invincibility and realize the hard work is about to start.

I hope and pray that's where he is right now.

What a meandering bit of jibberish. I read the post as a sort of mental exercise to see what, if any, logical connection existed from one statement to the next. Alas, none could be found. But given Slate's expectation and standard for its writers, I expect to see a happy little check mark beside the post alerting readers to its inherent brillance.

Wow, you're clueless. Obama will win as a dem, easy.

Meanwhile, by "the world" you mean Europe, and we like it when Europe is nervous. Think about it. Reagan scared the shit out of Europe, and we loved him for it.

You see, we are a nation of immigrants, because the rest of the world sucks. If someplace else were more awesome than America, all the immigrants would be going there instead.

<<Madai. Really? Reagan "scared the shit out of Europe"?

Money is flowing out of your country by the minute. Your views are too often heard.

FYI--Opec defied your government today and is moving ahead with raising oil prices at a time when your long-term contracts are coming up for renewal, ensuring that you will begin to pay the price margins we've been paying for a long time. A respected Davos presentation cited expected oil pricing to reach as high as USD500 within only a few years. So, if the dollar keeps falling, you can stay smug in your memory of what Reagan did to Europe.

For the record, while I speak with a European voice, I am Swiss (Francophone, and not EU). Can(t really say we do much apart from move money and feel badly for having bought too many of your mortgages.

The money, which we agree is worthless, is being exchanged for things we actually want. Who's the dummy here?

"Your views are too often heard."

That's your problem, as you keep listening. You silly Euros just can't get enough of us!

"A respected Davos presentation cited expected oil pricing to reach as high as USD500 within only a few years."

That will be a good thing. It shall help drive a market solution to the fuel crisis, and maybe Al Gore will finally stop flying around causing global warming.

There is no margin for denial on the Obama side. Chances of cracking Democratic Party games after yesterday will grow very slim. The Clintons will claim entitlement; Florida and Michigan, even with reruns, and likely Pennsylvania, will go to her column. There is no chance of avoiding a convention fight.

If Obama had won Texas and Ohio, then super delegates would be pressed to defend a stand behind behind Clinton. Not so now. Watch the caught-in-the-hall interview of Virginia Senator Webb playing now on the BBC.

This convention will not be Ted Kennedy's sepia memory of Los Angeles in 1960.

Obama is still the leader of a very hot movement. Take an honest look at that floor fight scenario. An Indie run would attract Republicans, as McCain's age and Lieberman will be issues for him within his base. A woman or a black as VP will not be sufficient. Yet he can win against Hillary, as she is unlikely to bring out a massive wave of support from any group in November. It was Obama who put people into the queues. A McCain-Clintons race will be a predictable bore.

Think Indie. The time to do so is short.