Winner! ?

Sacre’Poutine! Is it over? It can’t be over, can it? Of course it isn’t, but for now we are in the wash of the ‘clinch’. The junior Senator is the presumptive nominee and Margaret will just have to deal with that. Whether she will find the satisfaction of a joint ticket, it remains to be seen. Right now, too look at it, Barack Obama could walk into the White House unassisted; if you are watching the major non-Fox press, history has not only been made, this election is history. CNN and MSNBC have had their coronation, Olbermann has spat, perhaps, his last screed against HRC, Matthews giddily rubbed off his penultimate nut and it is all smiles in Blitzerland.

I don’t know, you know, so much time, so little attention to span for you, the Americans. Certainly, McCain is proving equally as poor a speaker as… well… I won’t mention it. But there is talk about the governor of Alaska, the extraordinarily popular Sarah Palin, a fiscally conservative, right to life, lifetime NRA member and former beauty queen who still has the good looks of a sexy librarian in a film I ha… ahem.

The race is long and not yet half over. Many members of the press and friends have emailed and called to express their exhaustion and happiness to see this settled, but I wonder if it had gone to the convention, still as inevitable a conclusion as was achieved this week, the wash of the ‘clinch’ might have borne more weight.