It's official: Barack Obama is the nominee

Well, while I was out I managed to get stuck in the world's worst traffic (overturned cement truck), but the good news is that during that time, Barack Obama officially became the nominee of the Democratic Party.

Of course, I turned on CNN first thing upon returning and despite Hillary Clinton's motion to make Obama the nominee by acclimation, the topic was -- you guessed it -- Democratic disunity.

What a bunch of lying scoundrels they are. I could stomach their coverage if it bore some relation to the facts at hand, or if they were somewhat balanced in their treatment of John McCain's own problems with unity, but that doesn't fit their script.

The thing is that if they wanted to look at John McCain's real problems with unity, it wouldn't be hard for them to do. Just take this quote from conservative Phyllis Schaffly about Joe Lieberman:

Phyllis Schlafly, of the conservative Eagle Forum, was more blunt: "I think there would be a walkout on Lieberman at the convention. He's not a Republican."

This is a real problem for McCain. Even though he's solidly anti-choice, he'd probably like to pick a VP who was pro-choice so that he could obscure the reality of his record. But because the right-wing of the GOP does not trust John McCain, it's almost certain that he won't pick a pro-choicer like Ridge or Lieberman.

And that's just one example of the very real problems McCain faces. But do you ever hear about it from the MSM? Nope. Because most of them are either in the tank or too lazy or insecure to break the mold.