It looks like this is it! The final stretch! The last mile! The end of the road! The light at the end of the tunnel! The End! Finished! Over! Done!

Come next week, Barack Obama is apparently set to proclaim himself the presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, regardless of what Hillary Clinton says she will or won’t do.

This weekend, it is likely that the party will resolve the major dispute over seating the Michigan and Florida delegates and no one expects the solution, whatever it is, to be what Clinton will need to help her get the nomination herself.

She has suggested more than once that she is prepared to take the fight all the way to the Denver convention this summer. That would be a terrible mistake.

If she thinks she is getting pressured now by many of the party’s elite, just wait and see what happens if she tried to “spoil” it for Obama once all the primaries are finished next Tuesday.

Now what?

This is where it gets to be fun–like it hasn’t been already?

What does Hillary want to “go away” or, better still, wholeheartedly endorse Obama for President?

Help paying off her campaign debt? Without a doubt.

A promise that many of the things she was pushing for will make their way into the official party platform which no one actually reads let alone act upon? Sure.

And, of course, there is the question of that juicy number two spot on the ticket. Will she want it? Will he ask her? If he asks her, will she accept or down him down?

Remember, the game is called politics for a very good reason. And, we are about to see how the game is played by two excellent players.