Yeah, I caught that, too, and said "whoa."

So let it be Russert.

So let it be Done.

Tim Russery = Billy Packer: www.youtube.com/watch

Though Zengerle may still be shell-shocked by that last bit...

Drudge and Huffington Post are headlining Obama as the "presumptive nominee." The floodgates opening?

Sounds like the media outlets and anchors that want to be movers and shakers are making their move.

I am not surprised; almost every anchor I can stomach to watch has been commenting on how drawn out this has become. They are chomping at the bit to focus on something besides the Democratic primary.

However! I "bet" Obama is not going to accept "the win" until Clinton concedes the race. He is going to give her every opportunity to run her campaign as she sees fit.

Harold Ickes said that we do not know enough about Obama yet. Hillary's oppo researchers will be working double time. This process isn't over yet. The media should not coronate Obama.

We know people will still vote for him despite nothing but this for a month and a half:

andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/.../abraham-simpson.html

Russert is right AND he's exploiting the growing resentment towards Stephanopoulos. Russert's interview w/ Obama on Sunday was more even-handed, less the interrogation he usually employs.

Both he and Stephanopoulos have been hammered during this primary season for over-the-top, ego-driven, biased performances.

Russert is smart. He's likely trying to separate himself from Stephanopoulos, who increasingly looks like nothing more than a grand-standing, ratings-chasing, partisan hack.

"Harold Ickes said that we do not know enough about Obama yet. Hillary's oppo researchers will be working double time. This process isn't over yet. The media should not coronate Obama."

So what have Hillary's researchers been doing for the past several months?  Working part time?  All they could come up with is Wright.  Maybe they've been the ones behind the crap about he's really a closet Muslim?  The race has been mathematically over for several weeks, and the media folks keeping it alive have begun to show their ADD selves and want to move on.  Their the ones who've kept 'the race' alive, so why shouldn't they be the ones to coronate Obama?

Meanwhile, Billary won't just go away.  I predict that there's going to be a trickle and then a stream of supers declaring over the next 48 hours.  He's got a 156 delegate lead by CBS, and it'll be over 200 by the end of the week.

When Obama won ten primaries in a row, it was over. That was a mortal blow, the Clintons are too hardheaded to figure it out. Hey, she has nobody to blame but herself. Arrogance before the fall..