http://www.davosnewbies.com/2008/01/17/the-fierce-urgency-of-now/ A year-round Davos of the mind, written since 1999 by Lance Knobel Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:26:21 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.davosnewbies.com/2008/01/17/the-fierce-urgency-of-now/comment-page-1/#comment-223028 Davos Newbies » Blog Archive » California as the decider Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:01:48 +0000 http://www.davosnewbies.com/2008/01/17/the-fierce-urgency-of-now/#comment-223028 [...] I’ve pinned my colors to the Obama mast and I was delighted at lunch last week to hear his staff declare that California would be the crucial context on tsunami Tuesday, February 5. New York and New Jersey, the thinking goes, will almost surely go for senator Clinton. Illinois will unquestionably plump for its own senator Obama (although Clinton is Illinois born and bred, that isn’t much of her biography these days). So California, the greatest delegate prize of all, becomes the decider. [...] [...] I’ve pinned my colors to the Obama mast and I was delighted at lunch last week to hear his staff declare that California would be the crucial context on tsunami Tuesday, February 5. New York and New Jersey, the thinking goes, will almost surely go for senator Clinton. Illinois will unquestionably plump for its own senator Obama (although Clinton is Illinois born and bred, that isn’t much of her biography these days). So California, the greatest delegate prize of all, becomes the decider. [...]

]]> http://www.davosnewbies.com/2008/01/17/the-fierce-urgency-of-now/comment-page-1/#comment-221478 Felix Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:26:38 +0000 http://www.davosnewbies.com/2008/01/17/the-fierce-urgency-of-now/#comment-221478 The interesting thing about Obama for me is that he unleashes the "electrifying orator" so very rarely. There was the famous speech at the Democratic National Convention, and then I guess the victory speech in Iowa -- but most of the time he's much more boring, almost as if to reassure the public that he's not some slick and shallow fast-talker. The interesting thing about Obama for me is that he unleashes the “electrifying orator” so very rarely. There was the famous speech at the Democratic National Convention, and then I guess the victory speech in Iowa — but most of the time he’s much more boring, almost as if to reassure the public that he’s not some slick and shallow fast-talker.

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