I'm really interested to see how the Democratic Rules and Bylaw Committee rules tomorrow.

It might even be slightly in Hillary Clinton's favor. It might be HIGHLY in her favor. Yet she still, sadly, cannot win this primary. Her supporters will probably be first excited about the outcome (like they were about Super Tuesday), then muted, then somewhat angry at Obama, then VERY angry at the rest of us for being, somehow, mysteriously sexist. Just watch. Then they'll vow to vote for McCain and tell all the rest of us how they hate Barack Obama (for a Rules Committee ruling) sooo much. Just wait. And, regardless of what the verdict is, it's clear at this point that Joan is dead-set on feeling like Hillary Clinton has been cheated.

Scott McClellan makes an important revelation that deals directly with the Bush White House, (oh yeah and also you know with the ACTUAL brave men and women who are dying in Iraq) and Joan spins it to be mainly, chiefly, about Hillary Rodham Clinton.

One gets the feeling that Joan Walsh is, from now on, going to use Hillary Clinton as the unfair standard to apply to everything. Didn't get a job you deserved? You clearly got Hillary Clinton-ed. Teacher tried to cheat your kid out of a grade they deserved? Hey little Sally or Jimmy just got Hillary Clinton-ed. Some jerk of a parking enforcement officer give you a ticket even though you know the meter hadn't expired when they started? You got Hillary Clinton-ed.

This is reaching absurd levels. It's hard to deal with an article that deals with a very important, one might even say HISTORIC revelation from a White House insider about the needless deaths of thousands of young men and women that, somehow, in Joan's world, has nothing to do with these actual "fighters" and everything to do with her paranoid, never-ending obsession with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Joan's undying desire to prove that Hillary Clinton was somehow, anyhow, anyway CHEATED out of what was rightfully hers: this nomination.

But forget about those REAL people who don't have 109 million dollars and are getting kicked out of their house, or can't put food on the table, or are dying in Iraq. This is all, and only, about Hillary Clinton. No one else matters!

Next week's Joan Walsh article: Scott McClellan, President Bush is a war criminal and why I hate Obama. The week after that: why the economy and people dying is less important than my obsession with Hillary Clinton. And the hum-dinger come mid-June: Why Joan Walsh is voting for John McCain (not Barack Obama) and why all women should do likewise. This is getting really old now.

Now can we all please start working to ensure that a Democrat wins the White House in 2008 and we beat John McCain in the fall?

It's clear Barack Obama's going to be the nominee at this point. Can we please stop short of Denver? And not blow up the Part? That's an honest question.

Surely the issues are more important than anything. We've GOT to get a reasonable Democratic agenda passed and the Republicans out of office. Their policies are destroying the country. It's time to stand up and make a change.

There's one fact I think (could be wrong) many people are missing.

There was no question Florida was only going to get half of it's delegates counted either way. There were two ways to do this: either give each delegate half a vote or, more easily, just cut the number of delegates in half.

The second option would have hurt Hillary Clinton WAY more. For example in a district that had 4 delegates, that Hillary took 75%-25%, she generally would have gotten 3 delegates to Obama's 1. But Obama, by getting that much of the vote, is ensured at least one delegate. Had you simply cut the number of delegates in half, Obama would still have to have his delegate and there would only be 2 total delegates so it would have dropped to 1 delegate for Clinton and 1 for Obama.

Extrapolate that across all the districts in Florida and you start to see how this could really hurt her. The Obama campaign fully supported NOT doing this. Instead they gave each delegate half a vote, thus ensuring Senator Clinton's Florida delegate lead held and she received a substantial 19 delegate lead (the same amount she got over Obama in OH and PA) from Florida.

This is what Robert Wexler conceded to her almost from the beginning. It's why he was so passionate about their concession.

Hence the Clinton campaign then not getting the 4 delegates when it came to Michigan. What Clinton's campaign gave up here was also magnanimous, in the same vein as Obama's campaign's concessions in Florida. Substantial, but nowhere near as substantial as halfing the delegates in Florida would have been. So, in the end, it balances out.

Both sides conceded and compromised. Given that both elections were essentially renegade elections, think the Rules Committee did the best they could and their ruling was extremely reasonable.