Wright. Bitter. Tuzla. Blue-Collar. Pennsylvania. Superdelegates. Wright. Bill Clinton. Gaffe #1. Flag-Pin. Gaffe #2. And did I mention Wright?


One thing that we're finding hard to see is that ALL of the above will be entirely washed away once Obama is the nominee. I don't mean for a minute to say that they won't come back: many of them will. But things will change. Hugely.

The media is right now facing an inevitable fatigue in the Democratic Nomination. This hasn't always been the case: they liked the continued fighting through March, and the Ohio and Texas showdown was gold for them. But they're getting bored. You can see it in the speed of the media cycles. This "resurgence" of the Wright issue was over by midday. Drudge was running (still is) the piece on Obama having the lead from Senators. Then the poll came out saying that CLINTON polls better among independents - which is unheard of. 

What is happening is that the campaign, and the media coverage of it, is becoming erratic. The campaigns, the blogs, the MSM pundits, the news editors: we're all becoming so obsessively introspective (and I'm guilty of this too) with our own family fight, that we just can't see how BIG a story it will be when Obama - finally, and for good - slays Goliath. It will be huge news. Imagine something that is so enormous that when you're right up close to it, you can't see it. With a build-up that has gone on four times as long as it should have, this will be an event so seismic, so tectonic, that it will completely change the game. 

Here's how. First of all, Wright, Flag Pins, Bitter, Superdelegates & co will be shelved, at least for a few months. The media will realize that they've been pretty bored with the whole Obama-Clinton farrago over the last five or six months, and they'll suddenly see that there's a whole new contest for them to cover: Obama-McCain. And since Obama has faced much of the heat recently, even the McCain-ass-licking McSame-lovin' MSM will *finally* get around to changing their focus - if only because a different face on their screens will boost ratings and keep the goldfish-like attention span of their viewers hanging on for just a few more cycles. 

Aside from the media change, the polls will change. Any General Election poll right now is meaningless, and we all know why. My instinct, and most will probably agree, is that Obama will shoot up by 5 to 10 points against McCain with Clinton out of the picture. 

So the moral is this: don't worry about Wright. In fact, embrace his cock-ups. We're in a beautiful situation right now - 99% sure that Obama is the nominee, but still acting like we're competing for the nomination. What this means is that we can talk ad infinitum about our "weak spots", since it will all be long-forgotten as soon as the game-changing, monumental, big-as-the-earth-itself news breaks that Clinton has been defeated.