Yes indeed. He did it!

Tonight, when one manages to see through all that Byzantine fog that is the Democratic primary system, a single figure stands on the platform waiting for the train to the White House. It's Barack. Hillary decided to go back home and cancel tomorrow's appearances.

Barack won big in North Carolina. He finished only two percent behind Hillary in Indiana. He is ahead on all counts. So it's over. (The only commentator so far whom I've heard put it so distinctly is MSNBC's Tim Russert. But tomorrow should be different; the writing's on the wall for all to see and report.)

Hillary says she will move ahead as a candidate. Well, she may dutifully wend her way through the few remaining primaries, (though without attacking Barack.) She and Bill may engage in closed-door powwows about her running for Vice President. But it is now clear that it's Barack who will go the lists to joust with Lord McCain.

And too late for comfort. All this Reverend Wright and gas tax stuff has been hypnotizing the media, while John (a-hundred-years-in-Iraq) McCain has been making hay all over the country--albeit with ongoing flip-flops on sundry issues.

So, Hillary, please drop out of the presidential race ASAP. And Barack, keep pounding away about a new start for the country. Talk about it in detail. You just might pull us out of the pit that George dug.