Yesterday Barrack Obama stated that while all Clinton voters would certainly vote for him, many of his voters would not vote for Clinton.

oh. really.

Well, this isn't a threat, or spite or sour grapes or whatever halfcan plot  ya'll will project onto my old wrinkled head -- I'm considering McCain and this once well behaved yellow dog just might be taking a big fat chunk of the electorate with me, one I think ya'll are going to miss down the road, even though we are invisible.  that's the new thing now, isn't it?  busting down those partisan walls and building new coalitions?  Well, I'm getting itchy feet to help build one and if you read on I'll explain why.

While we all have been consumed with pulling knives on each other and spinning our own internal hot air, the real enemy has been busy crafting their strategy to shove defeat down our jaws of victory.  

Pay attention to what's happening in GOP -- McCain and, what's this?!  Huckleberry have emerged from Super Tuesday as the only game in Crackertown.  Hmmm.  How the hell did that happen?  And more importantly, ah....why?

Not so good news, Obamanation, the GOP sure seems to be putting together their anti-Hillary dreamteam.  Contrary to callow opinion, this race for the presidency doesn't end in Ohio a month from now.  It ends in Ohio nine months from now.  Word to the wise -- don't count your real enemy out just yet. And never ever underestimate them. More bad news below.

My greatest frustration during the Reagan years was how nothing stuck to the man.  For some inexplicable reason, his popularity endured and his conflated legacy became legend.  Through controversies big and small, Reagan consistently emerged unscathed.

Myself, I prefer political leaders that stuff can stick to.  Call it accountability.   Leaders may or may not hold themselves accountable; the great ones do.  However, if the electorate is prone to explain away any shortcoming out of devotion to a politician,  they lay open a broad field for that leader to wander in.  Put another way, it is dangerous to trust too much.

This is my fear for Barack Obama, not through his fault, but through ours.    

We all wake up this morning having witnessed a great moment in history last night.  And having been around for over a half a century, I can testify that while history is made regularly, moments of great history are rare gifts.

Much history happened last night, some obvious some indistinct but no less important.  And as the media this morning shrugs off the significance of it, reducing it to great acting or just another blip on the campaign trail, history will know better.  Soon a photo from last night (or a similar photo in the near future that may supplant it)  will be found in every American history book at the start of a new chapter.  

Yesterday millions of forgotten invisible Americans were called to finally set aside decades of in-fighting and distrust.   Young and old,  white and persons of color, male and female, traditional Democrats and newcomers,  liberals and moderates shared new hope, exquisite for having been so long in coming.   My request is we here ally against not just the conservatives and power mongers who would hold us back and the media that would discount us. Let us make our differences, our pettiness, our hopelessness, our cynicism and anything else that would threaten our unity our common enemies.  

Each of us has more responsibility for a Democratic victory in November than we realize.  Each of us will have the power to change the hearts and minds around us.  As any organizer will tell you, friends most reliably turn out for friends.  Even beyond our friendships, our active and passive campaigning can and will affect the outcome.  Each of us will contribute to the country’s image of this movement, for good or for not.

This morning’s front page has a poll asking Kossacks how many presidential election cycles they have participated in.  As of 5AM EST, a full quarter of the people here are relatively new to the process.  (Having voted for president two times or less)  As I assume we are all serious about seeing our candidate nominated and a Democrat elected in November, a review of the dos and don’ts of building support for your candidate may be in order.  (And judging from so much written here, may be urgently needed)

Full disclosure: after months of indecision I became a strong Clinton supporter only at the end of last year.  I liked her proposals, I liked her depth and experience and with no clear front-runner in my head, I liked the idea of a woman in the Whitehouse.

To be completely honest, I really liked the idea of an older woman in the White House, someone who came up through many of the same battles as I had.  But with the Caroline Kennedy endorsement and the new momentum going into Super Tuesday, I have to come to terms with Obama as my nominee.  But the transition will not be pain-free.

If I had to boil it down to one reservation that sticks hardest in my heart it’s this – it feels like Obama and his supporters want me to go out on the ice and die.  It’s not the woman thing, it’s most certainly not a skin color thing,  it’s an age thing.