Andrew Sullivan has a great analysis of what Barack Obama has done in terms of turning the old political donor system upside down and in the process creating a new sense of participation and empowerment on the part of everyday citizens. Naturally, the old powers that be - including Bill and Hillary Clinton - do not like this new reality. It makes backroom deals and inflated influence on the part of party insiders and large donors far more difficult. In my view, this is a good thing and, like Andrew, I agree that thinking Democrats should embrace the change and push aside Hillary's posioned Kool-Aid. Here are Andrew's comments:
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$1.5 Million. That's how many people have now donated to Obama. No one has ever come close to this in history. And it was done by the Internet, destroying the power of major donors to control a candidate, empowering so many to make a difference and altering the face of campaign finance for ever. And yet the Democrats are seriously considering rebuking this astonishing achievement in favor of an old nepotistic pol whose campaign, when it hasn't been incompetent and complacent, has been straight from the Rove playbook.
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Any Democrat who spurns this achievement is destroying their own party, and its future. This has been a revolutionary campaign already. Because it has been built as much from below as from above. And because it has brought so many to believe in their country and its politics again. I don't care if I am thereby tarred as an Obama kool-aid drinker. The facts remain, and one day, the MSM will absorb them.
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