Barack Obama has become the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party. Tonight he held his speech at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul Minnesota. It was a very significant and symbolic decision. In September the GOP will nominate John McCain as their candidate for the presidency.
Hillary Clinton declared that she will not make a decision tonight. It is speculated that she will be in talks with her campaign, Obama, and other party leaders to become Vice-President. I expect her to suspend her campaign by the end of the month. After watching her speech, which I thought was her best of the campaign, she did mention unity occasionally. If she was going to take it to Denver, she would've declared it tonight. She had the chance and she had the audience to do so. That audience would not have received her ending the campaign so easily.
Tonight was historic since it marked a black American as the candidate of a major political party in the USA.
John McCain gave a speech, but it was quickly dropped on CNN and MSNBC (Fox was playing it for a bit longer, no idea if they dropped it as well). CNN and MSNBC dropped it to focus on Obama crossing the threshold. It was a bad bad bad idea for McCain to give a speech tonight. He was totally overshadowed.
After the dust settles tomorrow we may see what Clinton's next move is. I firmly believe she will try to get in as VP. I do not know if she will be successful or if she would make the best choice. I do doubt that the party will be severely divided. I believe that the Democratic Party will come together and unify behind their ticket to take back the White House.
As an Obama volunteer I look forward to working on the campaign again. Let's get to it.
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