As I write this, all reports coming out of New Hampshire seem to forecast a huge win for Barack Obama because turnout is unprecedented. I think it's still tight on the Republican side between McCain and Romney, but no one has any doubts that Obama is about to add another win to his column...and in a big way. The thing I'm looking for is whether Clinton will keep it close or if she'll be passed at the end by Edwards again.
In any case, it is clear that Obama's train has left the station and Edwards and Hillary can only hope to hold on to the caboose to fight again in Nevada, South Carolina, etc.
So how much do we know about this man the press is currently fawning over? What do we really know about his years in the Illinois State Senate? How much did his community organizing work prepare him to make the kinds of huge, sweeping CHANGE he so poetically calls out for? And, most important, how did a one-term U.S. Senator manage to equal the Clinton machine in fundraising?
We need more of these answers before we follow this "prophet" (after all, Chris Matthews, in his usual bloviating way, compared Barack to Moses) to the mountain. At least one journalist has begun delving into his money machine and it looks like this young champion of ethics reform in the Senate has something he wants to hide. Check out Lynn Sweet's piece at
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/01/sweet_obama_secretive_about_fu.html
While I am not an admirer of Hillary, I think her campaign does have a point. Before we anoint this unknown quantity of hope, we ought to know more about HOW he got where he is and HOW (specifically) he proposes to take us to the mountain.
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