He's right. There's nothing elitist about a campaign "owned" by over 1.3 million people.

I got a check today for a debt owed me that I'd long since written off. It's not much, but now I can afford to make a donation and enjoy watching the ticker go up instead of obsessing over the latest feeding frenzy.

If you're bitter too, follow me for links to donate, volunteer and share.

Father Michael Pfleger, a Catholic priest with an inner city black congregation, invited Reverend Wright to visit, as he had done many times before. This time, he was confronted by Fox News producer Porter Berry.

What follows after the jump is the whole interview. It's about 12 minutes long - longer than most people have patience for these days - but I don't think you'll regret taking the time.

My apologies for the short diary, but an earlier one about this has slid off the page and the situation is still in need of attention.

We need help calling delegates to the Texas County Conventions to make sure they all get there. In my first 8 calls just now, I got two live people, and neither of them had gotten any information about when or where their conventions would be!

The power of a new era of grassroots organizing and fundraising is astounding to me. Is there anyone with the Obama campaign who knows how to reach them to say PUT THIS BACK ON THE FRONT PAGE?

I have been waiting oh so impatiently to see from whence those inflammatory snippets of Reverend Wright speaking came, and finally there is some video to put it into perspective.

I think we all want the same thing
...well, besides wanting our own candidate to win, that is.

We want to come out feeling like the process was fair. We want all our voices to be heard. We want our party to have the best possible chance of succeeding in the general election.

It's probably also true that a lot of us are tempted to try to gain an advantage for our candidate as a result of the unusual nature of this primary, but I suspect that most of us wouldn't choose that, because for one thing, it isn't honorable, and for another, it would leave the impression of not having decided things fairly - and that would only perpetuate the ill will and divisiveness that we are experiencing, and possibly sabotage our chances of winning in the general election.

We have a LOT of common ground.

I have been baffled and often distressed these past few months over the escalating and apparently deliberate offensiveness of Senator Clinton's campaign. It's has been clear to me that this is part and parcel of their strategy, not just a series of unfortunate blunders, but none of the theories about why they would pursue such a divisive - and in my opinion inexcusably destructive and self-destructive - campaign made sense to me. Until now, that is.

I have been reading Senator Clinton's senior thesis: "There Is Only The Fight...": An Analysis of the Alinsky Model (pdf)

Saul Alinsky was an early, radical community organizer, whose work has, with strikingly different results, influenced both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Remember the Donor Bomb and trying to reach 500,000 donors by March 4th?

I just got back from attending my first caucus ever, and I have to say that it was overwhelming. There were many cars arriving at the polling place (a retirement center), and  people walking in from every direction. We very quickly filled the lobbies, lounges, meeting rooms, hallways, and just about every other available space on both the first and second floors, and there were still many people outside. It was clearly a "fire marshal" kind of moment, and alarmed the staff and manager of the center.

There was an attempt to move Clinton supporters to the second floor, and Obama supporters to the ground floor, after which it became clear that we really couldn't safely proceed in that space. Finally, we managed to agree to go outside, taking tables for signing in with us.

I'm not sure exactly how many people were there, but we numbered well over 600. (That's where I stopped counting.) It appeared to me to be about 65% for Obama and 35% for Clinton. We began signing in and were urged to leave unless we really wanted to advance an issue or participate in electing delegates.