The Flood

Everyone's trying to jump on the Obama bandwagon before he clinches. Maxine Waters is the latest.

In a further sign that that party is uniting around Barack Obama in order to prevent Hillary Clinton from taking the fight past tonight, Hillary has just lost a high-profile liberal member of Congress who supported her: Maxine Waters of California, who has just re-endorsed for Barack Obama.

"As an outspoken advocate on issues critical to women and children, I have great admiration for Senator Clinton and know first-hand her commitment to our country," Waters said in a statement released by the Obama campaign.

"However, our nation is at crossroads. Now is the time for us to unite so that real change is possible in November."

It was obvious from the moment everybody started whining about how "superdelegates will overturn the will of the people!!1!" that there was no way that would happen. Politicians are pretty nervous, self-interested creatures who flock to power, and it was clear that when a candidate was seen as inevitable all the supers would jump to him or her. It was never going to be any other way. So the whole "Superdelegate Transparency Project" and all of that was nice, but completely unnecessary. If anything the supers decided for Obama.

I do have to say that having the first African-American nominee of a major party is a uniquely strange and terribly gratifying. It feels like a new day. I wish we had a primary process that was worthy of crowning such a nominee instead of letting superdelegates do it, and hopefully that will change.