Bottom line: it is over.

That being said I am making a plea to Eric and Greg: please ban the republican spammers like Gottalife, Present. Now that this is over they have shown themselves to be GOP trolls that do nothing but attempt to hijack threads.

Obama just got the endorsement of the popular Peter De Fazio in Oregon. This is a big one south of Portland in the university of Eugene. Obama speaks this afternoon at the college.

Clinton campaigned in the middle of nowhere (in Oregon) with Gov. Kulungoski. This is endorsement that only hurts her in the state.

DCW has Obama down by 5.5, so I don't know where ABC is getting their numbers from. There is an add-on being declared today for Utah and 4 being declared tomorrow from Ohio and Massachusetts, so Obama will take the lead in Supers by Monday or Tuesday most likely, after the WV primary.

David Letterman:

"On Tuesday, Hillary barely won in Indiana, and was beaten badly in North Carolina, but here is the good news; she has a substantial lead in The State of Denial!

Now he's 5.5 supers behind.

Am I the only one loving this slow death?

Vernon Watkins, super delegate endorsed Obama.

Ed Espinoza is such an elitist.

I'm hopeful.

I'm hopeful that the Clintons aren't nearly as dumb as they appear to be.

Imagine the US Army playing war games. Each side probes, surveys, feints, attacks, etc. in order to strengthen both sides. After the war game, they can compare notes, see the "enemy" plans, strengths and weaknesses in preparation for the real war.

How important is race? How can the race card be trumped? Can Hillary's ploy -- especially in Kentucky and West Virginia -- actually help Obama in the fall. Should some states be written off? Who is contributing; who contributes on the basis of race. Who are allies and who are opportunists?

I can't believe the Clintons will destroy the party for the sake of an impossible goal; even assuming that Sen. Clinton wins the primary and the general, the scum who get paid to destroy people will be out in full force. The industry of personal destruction in the nineties will return like Jason or Freddy.

We need a new (actually old) political dynamic in this country. That won't start until the rule of law is re-established. That won't happen with McCain in the WH. The Clintons have to be as aware of this as anyone in the country. They couldn't govern anyway if they steal the nomination from Obama. They have to know that too.

Does this explain their behavior?

I'm hopeful.

All this talk of "nabbing" superdelegates always makes me think of a big car screeching to a stop beside a superdelegate walking down a sidewalk, guys jumping out of the car, throwing a big sack over the head of a superdelegate, throwing around a couple of turns or rope, shoving the delgate into the back of the car and roaring off to a secure undisclosed location where several other superdelegates sit bound and gagged.

(Oops. I shouldn't have said that. Now I'm imagining Hillary asking Ickes "ya think that'd work?")

Gotalife hasn't been the same since Tuesday. Neither have the others. Where, for example, is f'ing dembillc, or whatever he calls himself.

Gotalife actually pretended to try to climb on board for about 5 minutes. He wrote "Go Obama" in one post.

He's returned to trolling, because otherwise no one pays any attention to him.

So I present this alternative to you. I think that trolls - commenters who just try to bait others and who always say more or less the same crazy things - should be banned. I think if they were gone the rest of you would enjoy yourselves more, and engage in more intellectual debate.

That's one possibility. But the other possibility is, this isn't really a place for true debate. Conversations can't really be typed, and true intellectual sustenance cannot be doled out in narrow columns.

Therefore the trolls here are for entertainment. They stimulate people to get off witty puns (well, not that goddamn witty), and they facilitate commenters' forming friendships. And therefore they should be banned, in this alternative as well; because they are not doing their job anymore. We need to motivate them. I think that if gotalife were banned, he would come back again and again in some thinly disguised form. Same for the rest of them.

In order to get them to do their jobs, which are similar to the job performed by grains of sand inside an oyster, we need to kick their asses off this board. Either that, or "Better Trolls!"

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Wilber Lee Jeffcoat, the Democratic Party Vice Chair in South Carolina and superdelegate endorses Barack Obama.