Heck, it really hasn't been news for a couple of months now.

Barack Hussein Obama, a freshman senator who defeated the first family of Democratic Party politics with a call for a fundamentally new course in politics, was nominated by his party on Wednesday to be the 44th president of the United States.

The unanimous vote made Mr. Obama the first African-American to become a major party nominee for president. It brought to an end an often-bitter two-year political struggle for the nomination with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who, standing on a packed convention floor electric with anticipation, moved to halt the roll call in progress so that the convention could nominate Mr. Obama by acclamation. That it did with a succession of loud roars, followed by a swirl of dancing, embracing, high-fiving and chants of “Yes, we can.”

But let's be honest here -- despite the claim of unanimity, anyone who has been observing the process must acknowledge that his nomination was anything but. That is why there were such strenuous efforts to keep an actual vote on the nomination from being broadcast in prime time.

At best, Obama got 40% of the delegate votes, based upon estimates I've seen. Hillary's little "party unity" parliamentary maneuver can't obscure that fact -- though Obama's toadies in the media will try.

Oh, and one question -- is the New York Times hatemongering by calling the newly-minted candidate "Barack Hussein Obama"?

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