After weeks of dropping hints but remaining coy and quiet, Bill Richardson makes a 3:00 a.m. phone call that is guaranteed not to make Hillary’s day.

Is it possible that superdelegates will now stop fretting that some Americans a few weeks ago thought Obama was Muslim and that this week think Obama goes to church but is black and rally around the best speechmaker and inspiring candidate their party has seen in a generation and let him get on with the business of becoming president?

Based on their apparent willingness to live squarely within the Republican frame of a culture of fear, I doubt it. Now watch for John Edwards’s 3:00 a.m. phone call…

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