Obama at NYC dinner again almost revels his secret Superhero identity!
Obama at a NYC dinner last night said, "Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth," a reference to Superman."
As many superheroes have a separate identity among the public. They could easier conceal their identity and no one could figure out who they were. Yet, Senator Obama continues to slowly hint about his secret superhero identity. Obama is closely acting like Clark Kent almost wanting to revel his secret identity. Don't call me Lois Lane and I do not need to jump into any river to believe that Barack Obama is a superhero!
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It's OK Senator Obama, your superhero identity is safe with us!
NBC local news here in San Diego stopped by our office to do a full interview for the Captain Obama Toy.
Rudy Gonzalez of CaptainObama.com is an Obama supporter. He said he wanted to create a positive likeness of the candidate. He plans to donate $1 of the $14.99 selling price.
The Bay Park resident started taking orders at ComicCon and told NBC 7/39 that he has about 250 pre-orders.
There are also plenty of Sen. John McCain bobble-heads available on various other Web sites. In fact, you can find bobble-heads for sale of most the candidates from both parties who participated in the primaries, including Hillary Clinton.
"It's a race to label people, it's a race to understand them, and if they can do it with humor, then they win," says Lewis.
What it's like to be in your 20's and at the Democratic National Convention...highlights from Danielle...
click here to listen...16:51 min.
Captain Obama
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Captain Obama is a superhero with extraordinary powers and unprecedented idealism dedicated to hope, freedom, and change for the American people. The origin story of Captain Obama was that he was born Barack Obama on the planet Earth. As a child he started to display superhuman abilities, which upon reaching maturity he resolved to use for good not evil. Keeping his secret identity hidden. Barack Obama lives among the humans as a social activist and community organizer, helping the impoverished and speaking for the unheard voices of America. When needed Superhero Captain Obama appears to fight crooked businessmen and politicians, demolishing run-down tenements, keeping a moral code of conduct and protecting the American way.
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Bill and Hillary Clinton should be the 2117 & 2118th Super Delegates for Obama!
If Bill and Hillary were the 2117th & 2118th Super Delegate for Obama it would give Hillary the most incredible and graceful exit possible from the campaign and would unify the party like no other action possible!
It would also go a long way to position to get anything she wanted from the party!
While this may seem unlikely, at the rate we are going today it just may be possible.
Brian H. in Castle Rock, CO
Head on over to DemConWatch to see the list of Super Delegates who have endorsed so far today. As of 11am PST, we have 9 SD's! 32.5 delegates to go!
http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/
In addition to the real time endorsement list, DemConWatch has great analysis and tracking of the remaining super delegates and possible scenarios for the next couple of days.
Obama And Clinton's California Kumbaya Posted May 19, 2008 | 02:28 AM (EST)By William Bradley For those on the far right hoping for blood in the streets of Denver, Sunday's meeting of the California delegation to the Democatic National Convention was very bad news. Because of its size, California is sending even more Hillary Clinton delegates to Denver than her latest putative home state of New York. But Sunday's meeting made it clear that both the Clinton and Barack Obama campaigns are ready to turn their swords into plowshares behind the impending nomination of Obama for the greater cause of defeating John McCain.
As I walked into the Sacramento Convention Center on Sunday morning, I ran into old friend Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers and a diehard campaigner for Hillary across the nation. She was concerned that I might have voted for Obama in the primary, and that I was unaware of some of the "bad tactics" employed by the Obama campaign. But, while Dolores continued pushing for Hillary, most of the California political pros I talked with who backed the Clintons have resigned themselves to an Obama-led Democratic Party.
California, of course, looked like a really big victory for Hillary on Super Tuesday. But, at 51% to 43%, turned out to be both not so big for Clinton and a successful strategic feint by Chicago which forced Bill and Hill to spend a lot of time here battling surrogates while Obama himself was off winning other states. Obama spent only half-a-day campaigning in the Golden State down the last week of the campaign, while Hillary added on time and President Bill spent the last two days of the Super Tuesday campaign -- while 22 other states went wanting -- working to lock down for his wife the state he spent more time in during the eight years of his presidency than any other.
Now Obama runs better against John McCain than Hillary in California in three recent public polls. And in another poll would beat Hillary here if the primary were held today.
Before the full California delegation met Sunday afternoon, the Clinton and Obama delegates met privately in their own caucuses. Hillary won 204 pledged delegates in California to Obama's 166. (There are also 71 superdelegates, with many still publicly uncommitted.)
The Clinton delegates caucus was run by John Emerson, a former top aide in the Clinton White House who is now an LA investment banker and a national finance co-chair for Hillary. The Obama delegates caucus was run by Obama state director Mitchell Schwartz and former California State Controller Steve Westly, the ex-eBay honcho-turned-top venture capitalist who was Obama's first California co-chair and is a national finance co-chair of the campaign.
While comments in the Clinton and Obama delegate caucuses were off the record, I was able to discern some important things.
The Clinton crew is in a rather mellow mood. There was little anger there. The watchword of the day was cooperation with the Obama forces. Emerson noted later that his campaign had placed some very capable people on the national party's credentials committee (where they might push for the ultimate version of Hillary "victories" in Florida and Michigan), including himself and former Governor Gray Davis chief of staff Lynn Schenk, in the event that Hillary decided to continue the fight towards the convention. Which does not seem at all likely.
Meanwhile, the Obama forces did much the same thing, with former LA Congressman Mel Levine, a principal champion of Israel and skilled litigator, also on the credentials committee. But as Westly pointed out, the goal of the Obama forces is to be magnanimous in victory with the Clinton delegates.Westly reportedly instructed Obama delegates to be nice to the Clinton delegates and to not engage them in arguments about the campaign.
Emerson reportedly told the collected Clinton delegates that the key goal is for Democrats to sweep California and win the White House. That while they continue to strongly back Hillary, there are two strong Democrats and each is worthy of being president of the United States.
While the Clinton caucus was largely mellow, the Obama caucus was more fired up, with Westly leading chants of "Yes we can" intended to be heard across the gulf between the two private caucus sessions.When the two camps came together after a brief lunch break in the sweltering capital city -- just try finding a reasonable place to eat on Sunday in 102 degree heat in a city where the sidewalks are rolled up rather early on a Saturday night (I ended up with the champagne brunch in the non-union hotel Arnold Schwarzenegger calls his gubernatorial home) -- it was kumbaya time.
On behalf of the Clinton forces, Emerson -- who was best man at my wedding and my colleague in the Gary Hart for President campaign -- nominated Senator Dianne Feinstein to be chair of the California delegation and state party chairman Art Torres to be managing chair of the delegation. On behalf of the Obama forces, former state Controller Westly -- who I remember telling when he joined the start-up eBay that it was some kind of online garage sale and, you know, best of luck with that -- seconded Emerson's motion.Everything continued to go very smoothly after that, with both the Clinton and Obama camps concurring on unanimous votes for all the add-on delegates, alternates, and party committee members.
At a press conference later, while the delegation meeting dragged on -- fully 70% of the California delegation has never been to a national convention, so there is no little amount of trepidation to be overcome about the logistics of participating in the Denver confab -- California Democratic Chairman Art Torres pooh-poohed the notion put forward by Republicans that McCain can contest for the Golden State's electoral votes because of some Obama weakness with Latino voters. Torres himself has not endorsed, but his sister backs Obama.
Torres predicted that "John McBush," as he calls him, would use the notion of his backer Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's two victories here, which he views as a very different matter, to "con" contributors to give money which will end up being spent elsewhere.
I asked Emerson and Westly to talk about how they'd come up with such a smooth set of agreements between two campaigns that have been contesting the nomination so hotly. Emerson has been helping run delegate selection in California since 1984, when he and I did that for Gary Hart.He said that this process was easier than the last three -- in 1996, 2000, and 2004 -- in which the nominee had long since been decided. He and Westly and the other Obama backers, said Emerson, simply decided "to agree not to disagree."
Sad to say from the standard media point of view, the story out of the California delegation is that both sides are very ready to cooperate.
Meanwhile, another top Democratic strategist who has been supporting Hillary, Steve Maviglio, arranged for the green wannabe utility Pacific Gas & Electric to pay for carbon offsets for all travel and activities of the California delegation, its guests, and attendant members of the media during Denver convention week.Maviglio was the press secretary for former Governor Gray Davis, ousted by Schwarzenegger -- who is now, ironically, his good friend -- in the dramatic 2003 California recall election. He then became strategist and spokesman for California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, a national co-chair of Hillary's campaign. But Nunez has stepped away from the Assembly speakership due to term limits.
So Maviglio now works with new Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, the first African American woman to serve as an assembly speaker anywhere in the US.
Bass, as it happens, is part of a leadership shift in California politics. For, unlike Nunez, she is an Obama supporter. As is the politician selected to replace Clinton backer Don Perata as leader of the state Senate, Darrell Steinberg.
Things have changed a great deal in California politics since February 5th, when the Clintons made what turned out to be their last stand in the state they have called their political crown jewel since 1992.
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On March 28, over at Chris Weigant's blog, Chris asked his readers to place their bets (in quatloos) when Clinton would drop out of the Presidential race. Well, I've done pretty well so far. I predicted that Obama would surpass Clinton in Superdelegates before the West Virginia primary (got it right) and several of my delegate totals from the primaries were darn close (I didn't do so well on my original delegate estimate for Indiana). Also, I was only 1 day off for the John Edwards endorsement of Obama. My final prediction is Clinton drops out on June 16, just 31 days from now.
27. This is the magic number.
The blog editor won't allow tables ... so the rest of the post is over at The Dead Guy
To the Uncommitted Democratic Super Delegates, I am writing because it is so important that we pick the right leader this election, one who can end an era of distrust and deception and effectively lead our nation as one, into the next great era of our American story. Since I was a child my teachers, my family, and my country have told me the tale of the great United States, this powerful, majestic entity built on hopes and powered by dreams. I remember the feeling of awe and inspiration I had in my heart whenever one would discuss the concept of America. Little did I know that as I was to grow older I would discover that what I had learned was more a mythic ideation of the truth, than the reality. A vision built by Walt Disney's Davy Crockett, Small Town Americana and Ronald Reagan's fireside chats. While much of what we feel when we think of the majesty of the United States is valid and beautiful it is in a sense a small part of the big picture. This wonderful vision used as smoke and mirrors to distract us from the man behind the curtain. I am 26 years old and with the exception of Ronald Reagan I have lived in a country run by Bushes and Clinton's, none of them facilitating this vision of the America I once envisioned as a child, the great and infallible United States, Smiter of Evil, defender of the defenseless, mother to the tired, the poor and the huddled masses yearning to be free. What I found was a business with businessmen helping other businessmen. The people of this country were treated as though they were silly little things, annoying insects in the ear of financial gain, quick fixes and legacies built on scandal and shame. That is what I saw and America began to leave a bitter taste in my mouth. That is until 2007 when I came to know Barack Obama. Since deciding to support Barack Obama, I have been putting in hundreds of hours writing to people telling them about his policies, his ethics, and dispelling the myths circulated by nasty e-mails, and by writing letters to the editor of all the major papers in the states about to hold elections, donating hundreds of my own dollars which I could not afford to part with, because I knew that I could afford no other president but him. Barack Obama has the most to offer the PEOPLE of this nation. More than any other candidate he knows what the people need and is willing to fight for it. He is going to bring the people of this nation back together and out from behind the partisan front lines (I've seen my own very diverse community rally behind him), allowing us to see our neighbors once again as the 'Johnson's' and not as the republicans or democrats next door. As many of you know he has realistic, common sense based solutions for getting America back on track and has demonstrated that he has the judgment to do what is right, if not always popular to ensure the safety and freedom for every citizen of the united states. He will also bring the people of my generation the biggest change in Washington in our lifetime: a new name to the white house and a fresh slate for our expectations. We don't need another president spending their time trying to live up to the presidencies and accomplishments of family members, never truly being able to define the line where one administration ends and the other begins. We need to start anew, start fresh. Like a brilliant flower rising from the scorched earth left by the previous administration, Barack Obama will stand out as a symbol of renewal and hope and peace. Most importantly he will give me the America I always dreamed of, the America that once lived only in the pages of myth, the vision of America that our founders and forefathers fought and died for, the idea of America that our troops fight for even today. Barack Obama is the America that America always promised to be. I see a new America in him, I see it in us, and on the horizon I see it stepping out of the pages of myth and into the pages of History.
as a super delegate please put your support behind Barack Obama and lets start the general election off with a united democratic party. Here's to a stronger, happier and united states of America!
Thank You!
Joshua Bartman - Warsaw, Indiana
This is the development for the committed superdelegates:
Date Obama Clinton Diff
01.13.08 69 165 96 139% 02.03.08 105 198 93 89% 02.24.08 174 238 64 37% 03.23.08 210 246 36 17% 04.29.08 239 259 20 8% 05.05.08 258 273 15 6%
Now that's spinning the numbers. According to this, the following table shows how many percent more Clinton had more superdelegates compared to Obama.
01.13.08 69 165 139% 02.03.08 105 198 89% 02.24.08 174 238 37% 03.23.08 210 246 17% 04.29.08 239 259 8%
That means that Obama is now 1600%(!) closer to Clinton's amount of supers compared to when this election cycle started.
(cross-posted on The Dead Guy)
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Thanks to a friend, I was able to attend tonight's musical at the Des Moines Civic Center - "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" (Spelling Bee). It was a fun night, but as I drove home, a bell went off in my head (and no, Spellers, it wasn't Vice-Principal Panch), I recognized that Senator Clinton and her campaign for the Democratic Presidential Nomination can be encapsulated using many of the lyrics from the musical.
Obama picks up ANOTHER Super Delegate endorsement!
Thank you, Sen-MN Amy Klobuchar!
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/03/30/minn_senator_endorses_obama/
Yes We Can. Si Se Puede.
Obama 2008 and 2012
(Sharing your stories with the Super Delegates is working!)
Yesterday I received an e-mail from Chris Carlson that was sent to one of the groups that I subscribe too. Chris' posting and e-mail were in reponse to the Clinton donor letter to Nancy Pelosi. Chris is proposing a combination of letter writing and donations to Democratic candidates and organizations.
My response was to make a donation to my Congressman, Dave Loebsack, and to thank him for endorsing Senator Obama and supporting his campaign here in Iowa. As I processed the donation at ActBlue, I realized that there was no way to add a comment or otherwise tell Rep. Loebsack why I was making the donation. In my opinion, this is a big oversight and I told them as much in a comment posted on their site. As I thought about the problem, I realized that what was needed was a way to capture and report on donations from Obama supporters to the candidates and organizations that Chris proposes, much as the DonorsChoose.org aggregates and reports donations we make to the PA schools.
The result is the creation of the 'Friends of Obama' page at ActBlue.com. This page is not intended to redirect funds away from Senator Obama’s campaign. If you have limited resources, please make his campaign your first priority and donate directly at donate.barackobama.com. Then, if you can, make an additional donation to support one or more of the candidates listed. The list of candidates are super delegates who have endorsed Senator Obama, are elected officials, and have a donor account on ActBlue. You may also choose to donate to the DSCC, DCCC, DLCC, DGA, or DNC.
The results will be tallied and reported periodically on the blogs and at Daily Kos.
Disclaimer: This page is a grassroots effort by Obama supporters. It was not suggested by, promoted, nor even authorized by any Obama campaign staff.
OK, so a couple stories came out that change the math a little bit.
Michigan and Florida Delegate split...http://thepage.time.com/details-of-a-possible-delegate-plan-under-discussion/
New count of remaining Super Delegateshttp://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a0OkW8Ml8ljw&refer=worldwide
What this means is a gain of 211 delegates for Obama to a gain of 237 for Clinton. The new magic number may rise to 2151. Nobody is talking about the number moving yet.
There is another report out this morning that Michigan may go ahead with another primary on June 3rd. I don't think it will effect the numbers much. It may actually help things in Obama's favor. The HRC camp will do anything they can to keep the FL count as is in one way or another.
Go past the jump... it's a long post, but I think it's important in understanding where we are and we're going to be in this.
After posting Keith Olbermanns Special Comment tonight on Hillary, and after deep thought, it is time for Hillary to end her campaign now. Listening to Chuck Todd at MSNBC with the total numbers of delagates and popular vote. It is impossible for Hillary to regain the lead even if she wins the rest of the races left. It is time for the super delagates to step in and support Barack Obama and end this NOW. Hillary is ripping our party apart. I don't even know right now how we stand or if we can repair the damage she has caused with her dangerous attacks on Sen. Obama. We have to get started on fixing the damage now. Time has run out. I plead with the super delagates, end this NOW.
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