Finally it's over...right?

First of all, you HAVE to read Maureen Down's insightful column in the NY Times (yes, I shamefully read the Op-Eds on the sadest excuse for a newspaper). She paints a wonderful picutre of the last few months, and more particularly last few weeks of the Billary campaign.

As Obama tried to seize "the moment" and McCain tried to squeeze his way back into the spotlight, it was Hillary's speech that captured the nation. Would she concede? Would this marathon of a primary season finally move into a general election. Well, Johnny and Barry have been acting like a two man show for months now. But last night the Hillster, true to Clintonian style, once again demanded the spotlight and brought the attention right where she wanted it.

Last night I flipped on Fox News to see the SD and MT polls come in. I suffered through John McCain's wicked smirks as he addressed his middle aged and sort-of energized Republican audience. "That's not change we can believe in" he kept muttering. As happy as I was to finally see him taking shots at BO, it was boring, old, awkward, and, well, John McCain.

Eventually Hill-Billy came out on her stage in NY to address her adoring fans, and I sat on the edge of my seat. I kept thinking (and sometimes saying out loud), "Oh man, she's gonna concede right here..." Nope. I wanted so bad to know what she was gonna do, and I got nothing.

(On a lighter, funnier, and less politically correct note, while I listened to Hillary speak, I couldn't keep my eyes off of the unambiguously gay man in the background clapping like Paula Abdul (you know, with hand contact only on the knuckles of the palms?). When she hinted that she would stay in, he would yell until his face was red. When it sounded like she was going to do what was "good for the party," you thought he was gonna cry. Seriously, it was funny. But I digress.)

The greatest part of it all is that the MSM is trying its best to celebrate the momentous occasion of the first black nominee of a major political party in the US, but everyone knows that the game is far from over. The pundits and Obamaniacs (which are sometimes indecipherable) are saying the words, but they have an annoying fear in the back of their heads that they are being had by the steam roller that is the Clintons. You can see it in their eyes. And I love it.