Barack Rocks!

History was made Tuesday night when Chicagoan Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination for president, the first black candidate to lead a major party ticket. A combination of superdelegate commitments and those obtained in the final two primary states, Montana and South Dakota, put Obama over the top for good. “Tonight, we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another — a journey that will bring a new and better day to America," Obama said to a packed house in St. Paul, MN. "Because of you, tonight I can stand here and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States of America.” I literally got chills as I watched Obama's speech. What a moment for our country. His is the kind of story that could only happen in America.

You would have hardly known he was the victor based on the "non-concession concession speech" given earlier in the evening by his rival, Hillary Clinton, who is clearly angling for the VP spot at this point. She did not help her case and in fact pissed off a lot of fellow Democrats with her performance. Instead of holding to party tradition and graciously congratulating Obama on his win, she proceeded to deny reality, talking about herself and why she is more qualified to take on John McCain in the fall. It felt like the Bush "Mission Accomplished" speech all over again, and either Clinton is in deep denial or she got some terrible advice (yet again) from her advisers on how to approach the speech, or both. Whatever the case may be, she came off as petty and small.

Either way, it is over for Clinton now and on Saturday she will reportedly do what she should have done last night - endorse Senator Obama and begin the process of unifying the party.