I like this guy more and more every day.

Barack Obama has chosen the site of the GOP national convention in St. Paul to celebrate the likely end of the Democratic presidential primary contest on Tuesday night.

The Illinois senator is scheduled to address a huge rally at the Xcel Energy Center, his campaign announced Friday. "As Minnesotans, we're incredibly excited," said Tina Smith, senior adviser to the Obama campaign in Minnesota.

Damn straight. And not just as a Minnesotan, but as a Democrat. I am excited for this to be over. I am excited about our (presumptive) nominee. I am exited to take on McSame. I am excited about the opportunity to have a president who has a brain and uses it.

There's been a lot of talk about how Bush's victory is the death knell of the Democratic Party. This is nonsense. The fact remains that Bush just barely beat "the most liberal senator in America.", or rather, that liberal senator came very close to unseating a "popular, wartime President". 140,000 votes in Ohio would've sealed the deal for us, and Bush beat Kerry by only 3 points overall, a very small margin of victory for an incumbent. This doesn't mean that we can stop working on our message, nor does it mean that we can stop building the apparatus that will sell that message for us, but the rumors of the death of the Democratic party have been greatly exaggerated.

Perhaps instead of exalting over their glorious victory, the Republicans should ask themselves how Bush came so close to losing to "a liberal senator from Taxachussets."