There are still some big primaries coming up...and the superdelegates...and the question of MI and FL. The race is still wide open, though Hillary has gone from "inevitable" to second place. It is now Obama's to lose.

Obama didn't inspire me at first. But looking at record turnout in state after state, mostly people pumped up to vote for him even in the whitest of white states, I have to be impressed. I also have been impressed by how quickly he learns. He learned to be an orator, and became a damned good one. He learned how to fundraise like a Clinton. He learned how to win, in essence. My original prediction was that he'd climb too high too fast and fall flat. That never happened. So I have stopped underestimating him and figure he is doing exactly what America needs: inspiring and uniting. But Hillary is almost as good, just not really as inspirational and unifying a figure.

Both will be despised by bigots and I personally would like to prove those bigots wrong.