Barack Obama's money: another view

Have to admit, Michael Tomasky here makes a good point: "Political insiders in America are virtually unanimous: Barack Obama came out of the starting gate like gangbusters but ever since has been a disappointment, performing listlessly in debates and losing (some) ground to Hillary Clinton in poll after poll. So what's the matter with these 250,000 people who keep giving his campaign money, to the point that he out-raised Clinton (in usable dollars) for the second straight reporting period? Do these people have no respect for the experts?"

And these donors haven't maxed out; they can still give Obama more money down the line. Maybe too the younger people backing Obama haven't shown up in polls. The key question: will all these donors (remember, folks, the average presidential candidate usually at this point has 60,000 donors, tops!) translate into primary votes?

He's in the money...

Senator Barack Obama certainly has the money to compete with Hillary Clinton. That's now a done deal. But will he be able to compete? I still have the impression that what he stands for, the issue voters will associate with him, remains fuzzy. "Turn the page", "it's time for a new politics", "an end to partisanship" is not a sufficient platform. Fundamental: to get elected, ya gotta stand for something real.