After what seems like an eternity of campaigning, Barack Obama has finally clinched the Democratic nomination. We'll hear it until we're tired of hearing it, but this is truly a milestone in the history of this country. And I think it's important that we not remember only the depths to which this campaign sank toward the end, but that we recapture the feeling we had months ago, the feeling of hope and optimism and passion and possibility that made this race exciting.
And whether Hillary Clinton will admit it or not, she's lost, and the primary is over. I'm no fan, as any reader of this blog will surely know (look two posts down), but even I was dismayed at the tone and content of her speech tonight. In the face of insurmountable odds and definitive mathematics, she still refuses to concede defeat. When she should be rallying her supporters around the Democratic nominee, she continues her thinly veiled attacks on him and her insistence that she is the better candidate--and, by default, that he is not fit to run against McCain.
But the most pressing matter at hand now is for Obama to resist all calls to allow her to slither her way onto the ticket. No no no no NO. This cannot happen. The Clintons are toxic, and her presence in the #2 spot would only undermine him and all he hopes to do. And that's saying nothing of Bill's effect. Please, Barack, please, just tell them and anyone else with this fool idea NO.
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