My Point

We can do it !!!!!
***AP reports exclusively that Obama campaign manager David Plouffe sent a memo to superdelegates saying Clinton would need to win 68 percent of the remaining delegates to win the nomination:
Fight'em Hillary! Keep the chaos running. I just sent you money!!! Fight you sexy Mama! Fight!! You'll win babay. I want a riot in Denver!! I want chaos. I want you bastards made fools of!

Do not quit Hillary. I will never forgive your pink pantsuit fat ass! Never. You fight like a raging teenage hormone!

NOOOOOOOOOO

Good Wednesday morning. John S. Roberts, Special Assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs (and OMB director to some future president), is a birthday boy.

So is John Scofield, now of The Podesta Group.

The presidential-debate commission may lose its monopoly this fall — deets below. BUT FIRST:

In the last suspenseful night of the Democratic primary season, Senator Clinton was demolished by 14 points in North Carolina and squeaked by in Indiana, where polls had showed her comfortably ahead. Her staff sees the outlook as bleak. She may continue the campaign, but the harsh attacks are over.

***Senator Obama won't push her out: He'll let her get her coat, and walk to the door. But he's talking to the whole country now - not just to Democrats, and not to individual states.

NBC News called Indiana for Senator Clinton at 1:09 a.m., and it was still so close that the net hedged with: "NBC NEWS: CLINTON THE 'APPARENT' WINNER IN INDIANA." AP called the Hoosier State flatly at 1:10 a.m. Fox and then CNN followed minutes after NBC. CBS News had gotten the call right at about 8:20 p.m.

***Drudge's banner this morning declares Obama "THE NOMINEE," linked to a YouTube of Mr. RUSSERT delivering the benediction on MSNBC: "We now know who the Democratic nominee is going to be - and no one's going to dispute it, Keith. Sometimes in campaigns, the candidate is the last to recognize the best timing. It's very much like being on life support: Once they start removing the systems, you really have no choice.

"If, in fact, these reports of Senator Clinton giving her campaign more money are true, then the Clintons have a BIG decision to make in the morning: Do they go into further debt? … Their ability to raise money after the events of tonight - it's going to be very difficult. As opposed to what happened after Pennsylvania, when money roared in, because people saw a realistic chance. That no longer exists. They know it, Obama knows it, and the voters … now know it, as well."

The Indy Star banners: "CLINTON, BARELY."