NO MOPING

Did you think this was going to be easy?  I know Obama supporters got that false sense of security during their run of wins, but Hillary Clinton is far too savvy a politician to go away without a fight.  She has shown herself time and again to be a political Lazarus, and more vicious than a cornered badger when her back is against the wall.

But don't spend your time feeling sorry for yourself and your candidate.  I thought your motto was "Yes We Can."

Obama still has the pledged delegate lead, one which he will extend in the next week with victories in Wyoming and Mississippi.  But if you want to break Hillary Clinton's back, there is only one way to do it.

WIN PENNSYLVANIA.

You have seven weeks that begin tomorrow.  Get out there and fight.  Phonebank.  If you live near the state, pound the pavement.  Either can win, but it's more important for Hillary to win, which means you're going to have to work twice as hard.  

If you take a minute for self-pity, it is a minute you are wasting.  If we want to have the best candidate, we have to fight for it.

No Moping.  Let this reality check strengthen your resolve.  

YES WE CAN, goddammit.

•  Tips.

  We don't have time for this shit.

  by filmgeek83 on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:14:11 PM PDT

•  Amen!

  What you said.

  Yes we can!!!

  by Ruth in OR on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:17:19 PM PDT

•  You're right

  In fact...I can already feel myself perking up. After all....when was the last time that Hillary and Obama spent several weeks campaigning in a state?

  Oh yeah. Iowa.

  Seriously, it won't even be close. He's going to go to every corner of that state. To know Obama is to vote for him. He wasn't able to overcome Hillary's name recognition among Latinos, or downscale whites but he DID do it in Iowa. I know he can do it again.

  by jenontheshore on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:17:31 PM PDT

•  YES WE CAN!

  by VT Esquire on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:18:05 PM PDT

•  Still sucks

  that we're going to continue to tear our party apart while the Republicans build up there strength for the general.

  by nklein on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:19:52 PM PDT

•  i just went to her website

  because i wanted to find some of her "solutions" to tear apart. the first thing that pops up is a donation form. that is pretty tacky and yet another reason i want obama to go on the offensive. Our country will be better off with clinton over mccain because of the supreme court only. Go Obama.

  by Liberal Youth on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:21:35 PM PDT

  •  Kerry Edwards 2004

    They always led with the tin cup out, too.  I thought it was a mistake then.  Their ground game was a mess, too, at least here in New Mexico.  One of the poorest states in the nation, and hotly contested, too.  They really should have offered more for people to do than write checks!!!

    I think I'll like Obama's Supreme Court picks better than Clinton's.  She is just way too much of a corporatist for my taste.  Unless Clinton appointed Obama to the court?  He could do worse than that for a job.  (It still rankles me that Clarence Thomas ended up with Thurgood Marshall's seat.)  Though I'd prefer to see him there after being President...

    by Land of Enchantment on Wed Mar 05, 2008 at 05:17:03 AM PDT

•  GULP. You are so right.

  And apparently we have a lot of tomorrows ahead of us.

  Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of this campaign.

  Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away
  Now it looks as though they're here to stay...

  for a while, it seems.

  by begone on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:23:46 PM PDT

•  It's the only way to win.

  You're exactly right.  I'll step up my support.  Obama's in no way out of this.  

  I just hope that Obama starts stepping up his fight, too, because Clinton is going to keep hammering him, McCain is going to keep hammering him, and the media is going to be gushing about a Hillary comeback.  

  Obama is going to have to come up with some way to make sure the super delegates still think he's the better and stronger candidate for the party, and to do that, he's going to have to find a way to counter Clinton's attack ad strategy, which is probably going to get even nastier and more intense.

  I hope tonight gets Obama twice as fired up.  I know he hates to lose.      

  by webphantom on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:24:44 PM PDT

•  Come to Pennsylvania!!!

  I live in PA and I've volunteered to help on the Obama campaign.

  WE DO NOT YET HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE willing to work this campaign for Senator Obama!  If you are willing and able to do so, PLEASE come to PA and help us deliver this state to Barak Obama.  We welcome you wholeheartedly!

  If you CAN'T make it to PA, hit the Obama national campaign website and phonebank from home.

  I've lived here all of my life and I know that this state CAN go for Obama - if enough work is put into the campaign.  After all, we tossed Ricky Santorum out on his ass in '06.  

  We hope to see you here soon.

  Most Sincerely,
  Celtic Merlin

  by Celtic Merlin on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 10:26:52 PM PDT

•  I'm not moping. I'm puking.

  The fact that late-deciding voters went overwhelmingly for Biliously's Kitchen Sink Statesmanship.

  "Buyer's remorse."

  Her face on ALL the major news shows tomorrow morning -- have you seen the list?  So happy I will be at work, so no sick morbid part of myself can trap me into watching that.

  "I've still won all the big states that we have to carry in the fall."

  Rush Limbaugh groupies voting Clinton by the -- what -- hundreds?  thousands? -- and this likely to snowball in upcoming contests, now that there is absolutely nothing to be gained by voting R.

  "As far as I know."

  **********************************

  I feel the way I feel when I watch something like the slave ship scenes of Amistad.  I am sickened beyond words.  I am cynical about the human species. My lips involuntarily shape themselves into an expression of revulsion.  Something putrid seems to have smeared itself all along the lower portion of my intestines.

  Okay.  Yes we can.  Okay.  I breathe.  I force myself to say the words.  Yes we can. Dear God, give me strength.  And give us respite.  Okay.  

  Thank God for this site, where I am not alone in my feelings, and where others with more perspective have today done me such a great service by writing diaries to snap us out of it, to remind us of why we believe, to slap us upside the head and tell us to stop being wusses.

  My stomach still feels queasy.  Okay, get a grip.

  Maybe some Rodgers & Hammerstein will help.  There are very few things, imho, that cannot be improved by a little Rodgers and Hammerstein.  One from "Cinderella" seems appropriate:

  Impossible
  for a plain yellow pumpkin
  to become a golden carriage.

  Impossible
  for a plain country bumpkin
  and a prince to join in marriage.

  And four white mice will never
  be four white horses.
  Such falderol and fiddle-dee-dee
  of course is
  Impossible. Impossible.

  But the world is full of zanies and fools,
  who don't believe in sensible rules,
  and won't believe what sensible people say.

  And because these daft and dewy-eyed dopes
  keep building up impossible hopes,

  Impossible
  things are happening every day.

  Okay.  I can live with being a delusional, daft, dewy-eyed dope.  My favorite modus operandi, in point of fact.

  But SHIT when do the good guys get to finally win?

  by NWTerriD on Tue Mar 04, 2008 at 11:22:27 PM PDT

•  Speaking of badgers

  State animal of Wisconsin, which definitely went for Obama.

  

  (Because sometimes, ya just gotta post a silly critter pic...)

  by Land of Enchantment on Wed Mar 05, 2008 at 05:13:10 AM PDT