Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for May 9, 2008.

Today we're going to talk about politics and Burma, and then we'll have cocktail chatter on some three very interesting topics, one of which is yet to be determined, even by the person who's now speaking.

I wonder who that would be.

Can you introduce us? I am going to. I'm going to. I, that's right. It's, David Plotz is the person you just heard from, our regular. And deputy editor of Slate, I might add, for those of you who are joining us from the Federal Republic of Germany. And Emily Bazelon is also with us, senior editor at Slate. and Emily, I'm going to ask you the first question. Wait, wait. We have got to point out that you guys are wearing the same shirt. I'm sorry. It's just too funny to be standing and sitting here talking to you. It's a very nice, green, button down, kind of cloth. It's not a button down. No, okay. There are buttons that has buttons.

I'm sorry.

And I'm John Dickerson, the host who is now going to try and rest this show back from...

That is a brighter green.

This is a Kermit-esque, and John's has a more forest green air about it.

It's very becoming on both of you.

Clearly a shirt designed for different.

Do you think that our listeners are interested in this, Emily? Yes. It's a real women's touch. Yes. For the show. That's right. And so now to the one listener who's remaining and who's stuck with the Gap Fest, we'd like to thank you for continuing on. And now you will hear Emily opine about something

other than shirts. And that is this, Emily. Is the race over for the Democratic nomination?

It's over, but it's not going to feel like it's over for a while because there's still more sort

of exiting of Clinton to play out. So Obama will be the nominee, and yet we're going to have another few

weeks month. I hope it's not more than a month. I myself am really ready for somebody to have

the air of inevitability, and since Obama is ahead, I'm ready for Obama to have that air. But

it's going to be a dance to get her out of the race. I don't think she's just going to simply go off into the sunset in the next few days.

No, she actively isn't going into the sunset.

She's challenging Obama on the issue of Florida and Michigan again.

And she's fighting hard in West Virginia.

And she said Thursday, David, in an interview in the USA Today, she pointed out that she has won the white votes and the Catholics and blue collar workers. But her mentioning that she won the white votes got a strong reaction from a lot of people. What's your reaction to that? Well, it was probably strategically, incredibly stupid for her to say that. It is factually true.

And obviously, I mean, I'd be more interested in your opinion about this than my own, John.

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