It's sarcasm like this that makes me wonder where anyone went wrong with calling Americans "bitter" and "clingy."

Senator Obama has won white people; he's won working-class white people; he's won educated white people; he's won gay, white people; he's won low information voters and high information voters.

Or perhaps you forget every state west of the Mississippi River or the Chesapeake Primaries.

But cling to the idea that either of these candidates wouldn't be able to bridge the two, evenly divided constituencies to form 270 electoral votes in November.

That's anti-hope and that's anti-unity.

You can be hopeful but you better not be naive and not count your chickens and your constituents, otherwise you're just an idiot running and saying things.

That's what I never get about all the slandering of Senator Obama. "He's just hope" and an "empty suit". But when he gets 400 economists, 300 foreign political advisers and numerous other officials of all different swaths to help him form ideas; when he's calculating and decides to win an election competently by creating a grass roots donor base that funds his campaign entirely; when he decides to run up the score in caucus states while Senator Clinton preaches the line "it'll be over by February 5th"; while he single-handedly defeats the most competent and most powerful political couple of this generation --

SOMEWHERE.

Some-fucking-how, along the line, someone said - "wow this guy has no plans, can't form them and can't close the deal."

Senator Obama closed the deal when he made pledge delegates the barometer for winning this election; when the expected delegate totals were leaked and they exceeded expectations in most places and barely failed in others. He closed the deal when he made this race about attrition and spinning the perception of "overturning" that doesn't really exist but will exist when he crosses the majority-threshold of Pledged Delegates on May 20th, 2008.

That's your nominee; the person who created winning constituencies. Yes, he's a hope-mongerer; he's green around the ears; yes, he's got a crazy preacher; yes, he's cut in line.

But he's beaten the inevitable. He's run a fairly clean campaign and has drawn the most support, the most enthusiasm and the most money in political history.

By all accounts - he's the Democrat's best choice.

And it'll bridge racial lines in November.