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Obama will be the selected nominee of the crats.

I tend to agree. I also think that McCain could guarantee that result - and his own victory in the general election - by announcing the name of a black conservative running mate for himself before the Democratic convention. The Republican VP candidate would have nothing to do but attack Obama and Wright et al, and to answer two questions:

"Yes, of course, my own nomination was simple identity politics" - and

"No, that is no different than naming a VP from a different geographical section of the country in order to "balance the ticket." And in that sense it is perfectly legitimate - and long overdue."
IMHO if Obama could win that argument, with no matter what level of mendacious support from Big Journalism, enough to get a majority of the voters in the country to pull the lever for him in a secret ballot then there was never any possibility at all that the the Republicans were going to win this election.
The black conservative would, inevitably, have a thin resume - but how much thinner than Obama's? And he would only be the VP candidate - and the Constitution already incentivizes the selection of a VP candidate on a criterion other than qualification for POTUS - "The Electors shall meet in their respective States and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves." That is a mandate for selecting the VP nominee for diversity, and - at the discretion of the presidential nominee and the nominating convention - there is no reason not to apply that criterion to race just as the Constitution promotes the use of it for geography.

Don’t think for a moment that the clinton’s won’t have something to say about that.

The Clinton’s are going scorched earth. It’s either Billary or nobody. If it’s nobody then it will be McCain in November. That makes it a d’RAT open field in 2012. Billary will be 64 then and still young enough to run again.

But, she’ll have to go all in on that contest, because she will be running for re-election to her senate seat in 2012 and will be an easy target.