The UK Guardian says the Senator Obama is “limping” to the finish line in the Democratic primary season. The New York Times has him “wheezing” as he crosses the tape to become the Democratic nominee. If current trends hold, he could have potentially enough delegates to claim the nomination in the next week or two, but that is not clear at this point

Senator Clinton still has the greatest number of votes in the primaries and caucuses, but the media cut her no slack. She and her allies can point to their fairly compelling demographic arguments, but to no avail, and, increasingly, to no notice. The left in the Democratic Party, and more importantly, the media have made their choice and there’s no stopping them now.

Our view is that Senator Clinton is the stronger candidate against Senator McCain in the general election. Senator Obama seems to have peaked in February, and it remains to be seen if the herculean efforts of the MSM can prop him up all the way through the long months until November. But perhaps that is a mischaracterization. Perhaps the MSM don’t really have their work cut out for them at all.

Perhaps America and Americans have changed. Maybe they want to try a new Age of Foolishness on for size by electing such an inexperienced but glib fellow (Scott Johnson uses a different term at the end of this piece). Perhaps the slow motion train wreck of Senator Obama’s chruchgoing and churchleaving (or was that grandma, not a train?) will not be seen by voters as a relevant insight into the man’s judgment. Perhaps that he is a “peacenik by gut” who has poor instincts when it comes to dealing with adversaries will be seen as irrelevant in November. Perhaps his blessedness will carry him to victory. Or maybe America just wants change, no matter what, instead of more grumpy old men (actually, the Grumpy Old Men promise foolish change too). One way or another, it looks like we’re going to find out.

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