But his point is well taken: Obama remains the empty suit now he was three months ago, and at some point that will catch up.

Huck’s the only guy actually saying it, but it remains a basic American reality: we don’t elect senators in this country. We like governors, vice-presidents, and war heros - and in that order, too. The last senator to get elected was Kennedy, and that’s 48 years ago, now, and he only made it owing to the female vote combined with the fact that he was a sort of war hero himself. (”Sort of” - After being dope enough to get PT-109 out of position, lost, and run over by a destroyer, he then proved heroic enough to get most of his crew home. The heroism wouldn’t have been necessary had he not screwed up in the first place.)

However. We like people who have established that they can run something. In this election year, that would be Giuliani, Romney, Huckaby, and Bill Richardson - period. The most any of the rest of them have run is a senate office, with a staff of fifteen or so, a budget supplied by other people, and no accountability for any of it. Senators do not know how to run anything - unless they did it in private life. None of this gang ever did.

So is Obama “inevitable?” Every bit as much as Hillary was a few weeks ago, sure.