Well, a caucus result on the weekend should just about wrap it up for the Hillary Clinton for President 2008 campaign. Though stubborn to the extreme, surely Ms. Clinton has no choice but to give up her hopes after losing the non-nation non-state to Barack Obama by seven popular votes, a performance Market Watch described as "Obama sails to Guam caucus victory."

At stake where nine delegates, five the ubiquitous "super delegates," representing 0.445 percent of the 2,024-1/2 votes needed at the Democratic convention for nomination by the party. In taking the island's caucus and therefore getting two of the four pledged delegates, Obama went from holding a decent 73.52 percent of the needed total to an insurmountable 73.6 percent.

And a bit of an Election 2000 is being observed in the beautiful Pacific non-commonwealth, non-protectorate of the United States: According to Pacific News Center, over 500 ballots have been called "spoiled," thus invalidating these, and others are purported to be missing.

In other hype, or, if you prefer, "news," Obama got in the quote of the day for yesterday when he called Clinton's support of a national gas tax-free day as "[typical of] empty gestures calculated to get politicians through the next election."

Obama tossed out like pithy comments after folksily shooting baskets on a campaign stop in hoops-loving Indiana, a gesture rife with meaning beyond getting elected, to be sure.

As for Clinton, no word yet as to whether she'll be obliterating Guam on Day One of her administration.