Obama's Amazing Campaign:Beating a Former President and First Lady+the Early Pundits

    As Senator Barack Obama goes into Oregon,the favorite on Tuesday, May 20th, and will probably lose Kentucky to Senator Hillary Clinton on the same day, he will accumulate enough delegates to come within shouting distance of taking the entire primary election.

    When I started out about April of 2007, blogging about why Obama could beat Hillary Clinton, the pundits and media were all over the former First Lady as the automatic victor.

    After all, no one knew Senator Obama, other than his well received speech before the last Democratic Convention.

    Senator Clinton had been on the "front pages" of the media for the last 16 years,and her husband, Bill Clinton, was loved by the majority of Democrats in this country.

    Very early on, some reporters said that the southern Black delegation was in the pocket of the Clinton's.

    I wrote that they were wrong, and they were talking to the wrong African Americans.  They were interviewing the leadership in the south, and not the average "Joe" on the streets of Los Angeles and St. Louis.

    Now, the pundits are using the West Virginia vote, as to the danger to Obama of "white males."

    Although this pattern is disturbing...voting on racial lines....one has to remember that Obama won, for example, Idaho with 80% of the vote. Idaho has very few African-American's.

    No, this is turning into an East-West fight.  If the returns of Mississippi's special Congressional election, is any indication, Obama may even do well in the south, where John Kerry lost every state, four years ago.

    However, the BIG story is that an, almost, unknown "mixed-race" candidate for the White House has probably beaten a former President and his First Lady, for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.

    Although, there are still plenty of bigots living in the United States, they are not the majority, and in fact are a real minority in this country.

    Many Republicans, for example, will vote for John McCain, simply because he is more conservative than Mr. Obama.....not because of race.

    In fact, if Senator Obama wins the whole enchilada,he will receive many votes from the party of Lincoln, in the general election.

    Average folks will get this incredible impact, when he gives his acceptance speech in August, and then takes on the GOP leader, Senator John McCain, Mano-a-Mano in September.

    Just when the world thinks America has lost its "mo-jo," along comes Senator Barack Obama to give us all hope, again.

    Thanks for reading:

    Bob Kholos