[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

At first I thought it was just me: Was Sen. Barack Obama beginning to sound a lot like Arnold Schwarzenegger? Then there it was in a Washington post headline yesterday: "Post-Partisan Obama," and another Post story talking about Obama's California groundswell, where a Santa Cruz decline-to-state voter suggested he'd do well in the Golden State because he has a similar "post-partisan" style.

Then I Googled "Schwarzenegger" and "change" and found this gem from CNN's "Inside Politics":

"Gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger ... vowed Wednesday to lead a "people's takeover" of California's government, saying career politicians have left the state in a shambles. Speaking in advance of a candidates' debate he has decided to skip, Schwarzenegger, a Republican, described his candidacy as a "movement for change." "Help me send a message to Sacramento -- game is over," Schwarzenegger told the enthusiastic crowd at California State University in Long Beach."

"Movement for change?" Arnold ought to sue Obama for plagarism.

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[courtesy of California Progress Report]

Palpable Enthusiasm for Democrats as Clinton Closes Doubleheader

By Frank D. Russo

You will read in today's papers bits and pieces of what Hillary Clinton said to a crowd of 10,000 to 14,000 in Oakland. There will be stories comparing the size of the crowd to the one that Barack Obama drew in February. There will be more written about the fundraisers that Clinton had in the Napa Valley, Atherton, and Diane Feinstein's home in San Francisco.

We'll tell a bit of that story, along with Clinton's schedule today where she will be appearing at Laney College, also in Oakland, to unveil her urban policy agenda with an emphasis on education and crime.

But there is another story out there in the streets that needs to be told--the excitement that Democrats here in Northern California have about the Presidential race and the opportunity to take back the White House. I arrived early to see the opening of the Barrack Obama headquarters in Oakland--only two or so blocks from where Hillary Clinton spoke a few hours later. I wandered through the crowd there and then over to the Clinton side of the street.