my first thought, too. he's running for veep.
This has also been my take. All the media hype can't cover Obama's lack of qualifications for president but the slobbering media goo-goil can create a Charismatic image which Hillary lacks,and he will assure the minority vote goes strongly Democrat.
He will take the nomination to fill the deficiency in his political resume and settle for a grooming period. He's relatively young for a politician and probably has advisers telling him he needs to wait for his time.
Hillary/Obama may be hard to stop in 2008.
And what is the possibility now that the Dems have control that they will work out some form of amnesty that adds 20,000,000 illegals to the pool from which to draw more voters sympathetic to socialism? One out of seven Mexican nationals is now employed in the US according to a new report out.