I never thought I'd see the day when a black man became President of the United States. It was something that many blacks considered an impossible dream. That possibility took one more step towards becoming a reality today with Barack Obama's massive win in the Potomac Primary this evening.
The huge support for Obama in D.C., Maryland and Virginia were tantamount to a repudiation of Hillary Clinton. Even more impressive for Sen. Obama was his consolidation of support in his key demographic but also the show of new support from voters that typically skew towards Hillary. Obama scored big wins with blacks, younger voters and higher income voters as usual. But he also showed strong results with women, lower income voters, elderly voters and more white middle class voters. He took a huge bite out of Hillary's base tonight. She didn't even campaign in the Potomac. She left that to Bill who was last seen trying to be "brother" eating sweet potato pie at a black church.
Sen. Clinton is beginning to look increasingly desperate. The wheels are falling off her campaign as Obama has now won seven straight primaries over Clinton. She fired her campaign manager and today her deputy campaign manager resigned. Morale must be very low in the Clinton campaign at this point. Expect Hillary to start crying for the cameras again in Texas to shore up her base. There is even increasing evidence that Barack is beginning to attract more and more of the Latino vote. If that happens, I think Hillary can forget it. In fact, you heard it here first from the Brother on the Right...if Barack wins Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania he will win the Democratic nomination and he will defeat John McCain in November. Sen. McCain simply can not stand up to the energy, magnetism, grass-roots support and passion of the Obama campaign. Obama represents "change" and a fresh set of eyes in the White House. McCain represents the familiarity of the same-old, same-old establishment. It would be a landslide for Obama. Millions of Americans would want to witness the history that generations before us never thought would happen. Obama can win.
Elections are largely about momentum and emotion. Barack's momentum is building into a gigantic tidal wave and I still don't think he has peaked yet. He has now even begun to attract conservative voters who don't like the idea of voting for McCain. I believe he is attracting some conservative voters not out of disdain for McCain but because these voters actually like Barack's message. These republican voters who support Obama are becoming known as "Obamacans".
As Hillary's campaign spirals downward, it will require a charismatic and effective leader to correct the downward spin and Hillary is not that person. It requires a "real person" with heart, integrity and desire to re-ignite the passion of the troops when things are going badly. I simply can not imagine her generating enough personal magnetism and charisma to rally her troops and get them fired up again. People want to vote for a winner and her base is beginning to jump ship for Obama. This behavior will soon stop being a trend and will become a pattern. Watch for Texas, Ohio and Pa. The road to the White House goes directly through those 3 states. Obama takes those states and Hillary folds. She will have to. She'll look around behind her and see two people holding "Hillary" signs. One of them will be Chelsea. The other will be an illegal immigrant holding an application for a New York State drivers license.
What about the Superdelegates? Couldn't Hillary still win with their support? Sure, if all of them go for her she could still possibly pull it off. However, her dilemma is if she does that, she will alienate millions of voters who are not happy that she pulled some trick out of her hat to win. She will reinforce the notion that she is dishonest and will do anything to get ahead. And then, get ready for President-Elect McCain. She will be through. For good. No one will trust her again.
Tough place to be in if you're Hillary. She'd have a hard time getting re-elected as a NY Senator and millions of illegals would have to go without drivers licenses.
How did it come to all this for the Clinton campaign? Hubris. Plain and simple. They assumed this was their election for the taking and they completely underestimated the guy from Illinois with the funny name. They assumed that their ability to dupe and fool the voters would work like a charm like it has so many times before. They never imagined that a black man could ever be elected President of the United States.
That's OK Bill-ary. Neither did many of us. Thank God we were wrong. Get ready for President-Elect Obama.
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Wisdom of Our Fathers...Words We Need Today
A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.
George Washington
The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.
George Washington, First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789
There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.
George Washington
To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
George Washington
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
John Adams
Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.
John Adams
I have accepted a seat in the [Massachusetts] House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and the ruin of our children. I give you this warning, that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
John Adams
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
Benjamin Franklin
I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights.
Benjamin Franklin
Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. St. Monday and St. Tuesday, will soon cease to be holidays. Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.
Benjamin Franklin
That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for the well ordering and well-being of Society, and accordingly have been ever careful to encourage and protect the Ministers of it, paying them the highest publick Honours, that their Doctrines might thereby meet with the greater Respect among the common People.
Benjamin Franklin
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.
Benjamin Franklin
A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired.
Alexander Hamilton
Here sir, the people govern.
Alexander Hamilton
It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on the point itself, that it is impracticable to raise any very considerable sums by direct taxation.
Alexander Hamilton
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.
Alexander Hamilton
The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a certain balance...Alexander Hamilton
[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.
Alexander Hamilton
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
Thomas Jefferson
Although a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.
Thomas Jefferson
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens....
Thomas Jefferson
And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?
Thomas Jefferson
Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules.
Thomas Jefferson
Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people...
Thomas Jefferson
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle.
Thomas Jefferson
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson
Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can; when we cannot do all we would wish.
Thomas Jefferson
I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better.
Thomas Jefferson
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Thomas Jefferson
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
Thomas Jefferson
I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson
I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
Thomas Jefferson
I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
Thomas Jefferson
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson
If a nation expects to be ignorant — and free — in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.
Thomas Jefferson
If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check.
Thomas Jefferson
In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
Thomas Jefferson
In times of peace the people look most to their representatives; but in war, to the executive solely.
Thomas Jefferson
It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition.
Thomas Jefferson
Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure.
Thomas Jefferson
Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
Thomas Jefferson
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
Thomas Jefferson
One single object... [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.
Thomas Jefferson
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. Thomas Jefferson
Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.
Thomas Jefferson
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
Thomas Paine
A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.
Thomas Paine
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine
If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute.
Thomas Paine
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.
Thomas Paine
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
James Madison
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
James Madison
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.
James Madison
Here sir, the people govern.
Alexander Hamilton, speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, June 17, 1788
If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws — the first growing out of the last.... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.
Alexander Hamilton
It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on the point itself, that it is impracticable to raise any very considerable sums by direct taxation.
Alexander Hamilton
[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.
Alexander Hamilton
George Washington
The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.
George Washington, First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789
There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.
George Washington
To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
George Washington
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
John Adams
Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.
John Adams
I have accepted a seat in the [Massachusetts] House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and the ruin of our children. I give you this warning, that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
John Adams
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
Benjamin Franklin
I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin
It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights.
Benjamin Franklin
Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. St. Monday and St. Tuesday, will soon cease to be holidays. Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.
Benjamin Franklin
That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for the well ordering and well-being of Society, and accordingly have been ever careful to encourage and protect the Ministers of it, paying them the highest publick Honours, that their Doctrines might thereby meet with the greater Respect among the common People.
Benjamin Franklin
They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.
Benjamin Franklin
A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired.
Alexander Hamilton
Here sir, the people govern.
Alexander Hamilton
It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on the point itself, that it is impracticable to raise any very considerable sums by direct taxation.
Alexander Hamilton
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.
Alexander Hamilton
The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a certain balance...Alexander Hamilton
[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.
Alexander Hamilton
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
Thomas Jefferson
Although a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.
Thomas Jefferson
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens....
Thomas Jefferson
And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?
Thomas Jefferson
Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules.
Thomas Jefferson
Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people...
Thomas Jefferson
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle.
Thomas Jefferson
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson
Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can; when we cannot do all we would wish.
Thomas Jefferson
I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better.
Thomas Jefferson
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Thomas Jefferson
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
Thomas Jefferson
I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson
I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
Thomas Jefferson
I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.
Thomas Jefferson
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson
If a nation expects to be ignorant — and free — in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.
Thomas Jefferson
If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check.
Thomas Jefferson
In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
Thomas Jefferson
In times of peace the people look most to their representatives; but in war, to the executive solely.
Thomas Jefferson
It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition.
Thomas Jefferson
Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure.
Thomas Jefferson
Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
Thomas Jefferson
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
Thomas Jefferson
One single object... [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.
Thomas Jefferson
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. Thomas Jefferson
Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.
Thomas Jefferson
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
Thomas Paine
A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.
Thomas Paine
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine
If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute.
Thomas Paine
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.
Thomas Paine
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
James Madison
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
James Madison
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.
James Madison
Here sir, the people govern.
Alexander Hamilton, speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, June 17, 1788
If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws — the first growing out of the last.... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.
Alexander Hamilton
It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on the point itself, that it is impracticable to raise any very considerable sums by direct taxation.
Alexander Hamilton
[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.
Alexander Hamilton
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