Cheer Up, Obama Campers -- We Still Can!

A little nighty-night Obama blast for the faithful: Talking Points Memo's Café Talk offers a firsthand account of Obama rocking the house -- the 18,000-strong house -- at UNC Monday night. The author reminds us what Obama's about and why he still inspires:

...every word he said resonated with the crowd. 18,000 people, not just "fired up and ready to go," but really recognizing the need to move beyond the current state of slash-and-burn politics. Really and truly hopeful about the possibility of transcending the "us versus them" divisions that have made Republican, Independent, Democrat more important than American for far too long. Ready to turn a corner, not just discursively, but practically. The crowd laughed when Obama discussed McCain's gas tax proposal, because those 18,000 got the difference between a convenient sounding political promise and the hard truth of a lifestyle change....

Right now, the last desperate attempts to quell this movement are being mobilized. The full force of an old style of politics is being brought down upon us. We don't have to play into it. Don't waste time trying to fight stupid fights. Don't worry about who said what about whom. Don't give up on our game to play a game we all hate. Not this time.

34 days to the king-making South Dakota primary... stay the course, true believers!