Yes, we can

Saturday, was a good day. A huge win for Barack Obama, doubling up Hillary Clinton in South Carolina, 55%-27%. Oh, and that nice young man with the brown hair and fake Southern accent got 18%.

Barack gave what may have been the greatest speech I have ever witnessed on Saturday night, better than his Iowa victory speech, better than his announcement speech last year, and better than his keynote at the DNC in 2004. John Edwards followed that with a 10 minute snoozer, Bill Clinton gave a speech where he talked about himself and his Presidential library, and Hillary gave a full-on stump speech and town hall meeting in Tennessee. Like the politically deft person she is, she ignored South Carolina and went on to Super Duper Mega Monster Tuesday.

Last week I was nearly convinced of an ultimate Hillary win, not in South Carolina but the nomination. I figured that Barack would win in South Carolina, by 10 points or so then head to next week outmatched. But such a decisive blowout, followed up by an incredible editorial in the Times by Caroline Kennedy comparing Obama to JFK, and then by the endorsement of Ted Kennedy today... I don't care if its false but I have hope.