Joe, I love a good reference to Canute. Obama’s finale lacked only the sparse, efficient, unwitting comedic elegance of his declaration that “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”

When you said, with respect to a particular anti-Canute, “Think of what he’ll be able to do if he actually becomes president” ? well, that’s what Chris “Thrill Up His Leg” Matthews was doing last night:


What a night! I’m getting giggles! It’s so exciting here …