A view from Europe. Blogger says "I back Obama -- and pay homage to Dean"

[madfloridian]

Right now it is just nice to see anything nice at all after living in Florida and being bombarded with the media blitz against him. It was a campaign that helped us be unafraid to stand up against George Bush. It was a campaign that started new things in our party. We were talking at another blog about how seeing the crowds and enthusiasm make those of us who were and are Deaniacs very sentimental.

I back Obama -- and pay homage to Dean

Rupert's Read is behind Barack Obama in his bid for the Presidential nomination in the States. But this blog also wants to pay homage to the man (and his campaign) who more than anything else made Obama's bold bid possible. Howard Dean was the first mover, here. Obama would not be anywhere near where he is now, if it hadn't have been for Howard Dean. Dean led the way on anti-Iraq-war candidates being possible in the States; he led the way in an internet-based insurgency; he led the way in mass campaigning (via the internet and Move On, and on the ground

..."Obama is probably narrowly going to beat Clinton (though watch out for some of those sleazy super-delegates), because of the size of his base and because (crucially) of the fund-raising base this gives him.

...."Now that Edwards is out of the race (a matter of great regret -- a fight for the nomination between Obama and Edwards would have been much better for progressives/greens), the ex-Dean-'machine' is virtually 100% behind Obama. These factors are what will probably give Obama the edge, and enable him, against huge odds, to prevail in gaining the Democratic nomination (and he, unlike Clinton, will probably just about manage to beat McCain).
Interesting times...

I appreciate this blog. There is no credit being given here in the States. I think there is more going on behind the DNC scene and the big voter turn out than we really know right now, though I think someday in the future credit will be given.

[Justitia]

1. Obama was one of the original "Dean Dozen" - prescient, huh?

http://www.blogforamerica.com/view/3902

[madfloridian]

2. I see several on the list that I ended up emailing for ages.

After their campaigns. I wonder about Ken Campbell. He went door to door in SC and said people were so excited to see a Demccrat. We stayed on Richard Morrison's mailing list. I hear he is running again, but I don't know for what.