Barack Obama has what the pundits call "the big mo"-- momentum, as in he's won 10 state primaries or caucuses in a row. And the Teamsters just endorsed him, which is a great endorsement, because of course they all vote 3, 4 times apiece. Even though the delegate count is a virtual dead heat and it would take a miracle for either him or Hillary to sew up enough delegates before the convention to clinch, everyone seems to be writing her off. Because Obama now has the air of inevitability on his side.

This is insanely comical to watch. Because poor Hillary, for whom seeming inevitability was the primary justification for her own candidacy, has nothing in her quiver to shoot at the guy who has stolen her inevitability mojo. Nothing. Zip. Nada. It's as if she is literally whining in every speech, "But I was supposed to be the inevitable one."

This is what they call getting hoisted on your own inevitable petard.



(Does anyone know what a petard is?)