Prometheus 6

So when did Obama assert that he was not a politician? He is one par excellence, which is why he and his campaign are causing Fish's candidate (aka Billary) to pace the floor at night and wonder what went wrong.

Sometimes, others spell it out so well - this is from MarcAmbinder's comments over at The Atlantic.com:

A year ago Barack Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield (my husband and I were there) and he began from scratch the building of his campaign and organization. Hillary had hers in place for over 20 years.

No one paid any attention to the ground game that Obama built and his grassroots operation. It was all about the inevitable Hillary. And she honestly believed that it would be over and she would be coronated Feb. 5th.

This shows not just hubris but, shortsightedness and a failure to concider anything other than how the Clintons dreamed it would go.

It showed a decided lack of management and planning and money handling. Afterall, she did raise over 100 million in 2007.
And that is why she is not right for the job. You have to have some humility and the ability to plan for unexpected and unforeseen events. And have to adapt.

It also says a great deal about Obama's ability to organize and plan. A year ago he had no organization. Now it is seen as one of the best ever seen. And his online fundraising and support is very broad and deep. The lack of drama from his campaign, the way it is run and it's effectiveness, and the ability to plan long term shows someone who has the management skills, open mind and adaptability to be president.

Obama and his people are running a masterful example of what I call the two-tier campaign. They are running high and low. That is, they are running a campaign that appeals to the media and opinion makers and they are appealing to the grassroots of the Democratic Party. In addition, they are also garnering monetary donations from the grassroots in such amounts that it permits them to be less beholden to the usual suspects.

When the Democratic Party moved away from involving, organizing and turning out its own base is when it began to lose its way. Obama's campaign is, in part, a way to restore the party's political legacy of running campaigns in which real people are involved.