Obama's Party

Wow, that's all I can say. Obviously I am jubilent at the end to this primary season. First, Barack claimed enough delegates Tuesday night to be declared the presumptive nominee, but Hillary's speech was anything but gracious with no hints of a concession. I was worried. I was worried that Hillary's folks would urge her to take this to the convention, especially when I heard the misguided chants of "Denver, Denver" at one point during her speech.

Thankfully, her advisors must have been telling her it is over. She had a couple of prominent supporters talking that way, including Ed Rendell, Barbara Boxer, and Charlie Rangel. So I would have been truly happy if we only had the news from last night that broke that Clinton would suspend her campaign on Saturday and endorse Obama. Possibly even better news broke today and has received little fanfare, and that is that the Democratic National Committee has announced they will no longer take money contributions from lobbyists or PAC's in DC. See the press release here:

http://democrats.org/a/2008/06/democratic_part_10.php

Why is this such a huge deal? Because it shows that the Democratic party is now the party of Barack Obama. It also shows Obama's committment to the change he preaches about on his campaign stops. Expect him to begin cleaning house within the DNC shortly as he takes the reigns of the party. As Barack is fond of saying, "one voice can change the world," but it must start small and build. First was his campaign that was funded by the American people, now it will be the Democratic party as a whole, and soon, hopefully, our entire government.

Obama supporters must really start contributing in droves to the DNC to help support Barack's message. As the lobbyists get booted from the DNC they will naturally flock to the Republicans so we should expect McCain's campaign coffers to begin bulging over the next few months. It is up to us to help Obama carry the change message forward. It begins with the DNC, and next up, is Washington.