Is it over yet?

Holy crap, could this Democratic primary season go on any longer?

Well, it looks like the madness might be over soon. Although it might not be the nice, tidy, unifying ending that most (reasonable) Democrats are hoping for. The beginning of the end started yesterday when there were reports that Hillary Clinton planned to suspend her campaign today and effectively concede victory to Barack Obama. Those reports were quickly followed by denials from the Clinton camp:

Terry McAuliffe rejected as "100 percent" incorrect an Associated Press report that Clinton is preparing to acknowledge Obama has the delegates to win the nomination Tuesday night as the five-month Democratic primary process comes to a close.

Obama "doesn't have the numbers today, and until someone has the numbers the race goes on," McAuliffe told CNN.

However, the AP is reporting now that Obama does, in fact, have the numbers.

I've been fairly silent during this whole thing (my most recent politics-related post was March 18) but now that it's drawing to a close I have a few things to say...

• FINALLY! Holy crap, could this thing have been more drawn out (the answer is yes, Clinton could've - and still can - made this thing last until the convention in late August. But even still...man, it seems like this went on forever)
• The rabid Clinton's supporters (note that I'm not talking about reasonable Clinton supporters who wanted her to win but can still see the big picture) need to pull their heads out of their asses and realize that the most important fight is in November, and that if they truly believe in what Hillary stood for, they need to support their party's nominee even if it's not Hillary. Either that, or they need to admit that they're racist dumbshits.
• I'm glad Obama won. His campaign seemed by far the more genuine, positive, and hopeful one and I think he's got a great mind and temperament to be a very good president.
• Hillary Clinton says she's open to being Obama's VP. Personally, I think this would be a pretty incredible ticket. But I believe in the past that Obama has said he would be looking elsewhere for a VP candidate. I can see the pros and cons of having Hillary as his running mate, and I think that whatever decision he makes here will work out fine.

Anyway, I've been kinda out of it in terms of blogging for a bit, but I felt that this was worth posting about because it (hopefully) finally clears the road for the Democratic nominees to start concentrating their efforts on beating McCain in November rather than bashing one another.