"You know he didn't cite a single source in all those things he said. It's just slimy... He's a scumbag... It's part of the national media's attempt to nail Hillary for Obama. It's the most biased press coverage in history."

Bill Clinton's flashes of pique and anger, memory lapses and outrageous moments have obscured one of the great stories of Election 2008. His skill at small town campaigning is a gift he could give to the general election campaign.

At 9:12 PM Barack Obama declares that he will be the Democratic nominee for president. So long a moment in coming and so quickly it passes. Now he moves from commending Clinton to an advance on McCain.

In the optimism over restoring America's international image by electing Obama, little was said about the possible international significance of a Hillary Clinton presidency.

The title "citizen journalist" was always too French Revolution for me, but I've come to appreciate it. The hierarchical world of politics and media is turning upside down, and I feel like Alice down the rabbit hole.

Furman as chief economic adviser tells us little about Obama economics but much about Obama. Furman is young and smart and he actually told the press that "Bush has had some bad luck with the economy."

I'm speaking on a panel titled "Reinventing Political Media." Not surprisingly, few of the media being "reinvented" show up for what sounds like a dousing of Chinese Cultural Revolution-style re-education.

For quite awhile now, I have thought that the netroots affair with Obama would not end well.

Most reporters ask the same questions. Meena from Al Jazeera was different. She really wanted to know about "citizen journalism," and made me think all over again about the "citizen" part of the equation.

On the way to the event, I spot another yard sign for John McCain. The McCain signs are exactly the same colors and layout as the the Hillary signs were that dotted lawns across the country in the spring.