the funniest thing is.

all of you people who say Obama has done nothing have no understanding whatsoever what it really takes to run a national campaign. look at Howard Dean. He was the media anointed candidate in 2004, he raised $40 million dollars before Iowa (a record at that point), and he came in third, and never recovered.

almost entirely because John Kerry had a better ground game in Iowa. he had the Democratic "machine" behind him, even if he didn't have the media, and even though Dean had "the perfect storm" of 5,000 volunteers, they didn't know how to get the most out of them.

I've seen inside the Obama campaign, and their organization is brilliant. Hillary had that Democratic machine on her side and she was the media-anointed candidate before the Iowa vote, and Obama's organization beat her. Still, if she had put together a smarter strategy, that machine could have pulled things out for her in the following weeks, but she bet on Super Tuesday and ignored a dozen states, while Obama put people on the ground everywhere.

Seriously, if you can look at how this campaign has unfolded, and still think that Obama has not demonstrated any amount of skill, you need a quiet weekend in the country. You can say that Hillary is the greatest candidate ever, but then turn around and say Obama has done nothing to beat her. You blame it all on "the media", but in case you hadn't noticed, the media loves John McCain more than anyone, so if Hillary couldn't come up with a strategy to beat Obama "in the media", she'd be in an even worse position against McCain.

This election was Hillary's to lose, and she hired the wrong people to run her campaign. You should all be mad at Mark Penn, not Barack Obama.