…is, they’ve been telling us since March 4, how the race for the Demo­c­ra­tic nom­i­na­tion was going to end. And sure enough, the whim­per­ing has begun in earnest. How do we know? Ben Smith at Politico is going on vacation.

If that doesn’t con­vince you, con­sider how quickly Adam Nagourney’s arti­cle in yesterday’s New York Times has become the cor­ner­stone of the new con­ven­tional wisdom about the race.

(Hol­ly­wood, California)

After read­ing this, it seems clear to me that the ques­tion now is no longer whether Barack Obama deserves to be pres­i­dent of the United States, but whether the United States deserves Barack Obama as its pres­i­dent. The speech is one for the his­tory books.

Some high­lights after the jump:

Zhang Qingli, Com­mu­nist Party sec­re­tary of the Tibet Autonomous Region:

The Cen­tral Party Com­mit­tee is the real Buddha for Tibetans.

(Source: New York Times)