I feel great. Things are looking great for the first time in a long time. The polls have never looked better (up in Florida?!). The voter registration numbers are off the hook. Sarah Palin looks destined for disaster in tomorrow's debate. With every upward tick in a tracking poll, with every superb performance by Barack in a Presidential debate, my confidence in the inevitability of 2008 grows.
But what really is inevitable? This is inevitable.
But what really is inevitable? This is inevitable.
Yep.
Sure, the polls may look good right now, it might seem like we are winning the message war, but that only adds to my aprehension. Can any Democrat feel confident. Remember the first debate in 2004, the most one-sided debate in American history? Nukeular anyone? The stumbles by McCain and Palin might seem almost comedic, day by day piling on top of each other. But there are still five weeks until election day, and that's a damn long time. Too long for anything to really be inevitable.
Well, except maybe for this.
Or this.
Or this.
The rules have changed. As Obama looks more and more inevitable, McCain and Palin will become more and more desperate. Last week's political stunt was, I think, only the first piece of what will eventually become utter desperation. What does McCain have to lose? What does Palin have to lose? He left his honor back when he embraced Bush for political expediency in 2003. He lost his integrity long ago, when he abandoned his first wife for a younger, hotter, richer one. And Palin? Well, do I have to even go there?
This man will do anything to win an election, and as any psychologist will tell you, it's the ones with the least to lose who are the most dangerous.
That is the only thing that is inevitable.
The Obama campaign understands this. The last year has taught me one thing, that they are prepared, and that they will fight back. But it has also taught he one more thing, that Obama cannot do it alone. He needed our help to win the primaries, he needed our help to get where he is now. And he will need our help, in greater number, with greater force, and with greater dedication than ever before, to win.
But when I read repeated posts and diaries about how Obama has already won, I wonder. Do we understand this?
If not, this may be what we will hear on the night of November 4th, 2008. This may be what's inevitable.
[well, i was gonna put the Vote for Change ad here, but looks like NBC filed a copyright violation so it's gone. If anyone knows an alternate source let me know!)
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