"...and I will be making no decisions tonight."


The ObamaFest Team experienced an emotional letdown on the night Senator Obama finally clinched the Democratic nomination for President.  

Partly to blame: Mrs. Clinton's creepy non-concession speech.  The junior senator from New York went all Carmella Soprano on us- she doesn't admit defeat, her husband knows people, favors are owed.  Too bad for her that Mr. Clinton went from being Capo di tuttie capi to a lumbering cafone.  And even with the help of his consiglieres and his big earners, she didn't have enough to go to the mattresses with Barack "Barry Oboe" Obama.

But our mood soared when, after two days of scouring the international press for worldwide reaction to Senator Obama's win, we found a pick-me-up in, of all places, Nigeria.  The words are from Prof. Pat Utomi in Lagos:

"Obama's victory must be opportunity for serious reflection. Seeing the grave irony of our House of Representatives rejecting the Freedom of Information Bill on the day a more open society saw Obama cross the tape of the Democratic Party nomination process should help us realize in Nigeria that "Urgency" of now" to use a Martin Luther King Jnr phraseology is a recognition, in kings own words that "when evil men plot, good men must plan". When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.  Where evil men should seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice."  Good men and women in Nigeria must arise, draw inspiration from this Obama moment and make our country rise from the ashes of corruption, poverty and mutual distrust into the glorious future that is its potential," he said.

On to November!