Barring a meteor from space smashing into Barack Obama’s limo, it is clearly over for Hillary Clinton.

The turning point has come with the news that Obama now has more super-delegates—party officials and elected Democrats-than does Clinton and seems to be winning over more and more of the fewer and fewer uncommitted ones. By another account, they are only one superdelegate apart now…but it still leads to the same ending.

She is right to stay in through the very last primary; she’d be wrong to continue past that, in what is bound to be a futile effort to somehow capture more superdelegates.

I still think a joint Obama/Clinton ticket is the way to go. A growing number of party insiders seem to be thinking and saying the same thing, though Sen. Edward Kennedy has told an interviewer there is no way that would happen!

Show me the money!

If Obama doesn’t offer Clinton the number two spot, which he should, then he may just have to work a deal to help her pay back the considerable debt she has incurred by running. There are various campaign finance laws that sort of get in the way of this, but show me a politician who can’t figure out a way around some finance law and I will show you a dead politician!   There is always a way and Obama will be able to find it. He’s THAT slick!