If it is the Clarkveep...

...it will be one of the best bits of political subterfuge in recent memory. But that's neither here nor there...

What's important is that all the oxygen is sucked up. Granted, it is the weekend, but the talk for the whole week has been positive or at worst neutral for Obama: "Who's his veep?!?!"

So the news has been taken up, quite literally, with standby of the... ugh... Veepstakes. (Really? Veepstakes? On every channel? Nobody's got an original thought? Top of my head: Veeps Week, Vice Prize, Second Act, Partner in Primetime, hell, even Veep for Vendetta if he picks someone to snub Hillary.)

Meanwhile, McCain's housing flap continues to take up any possible space he could be mentioned in. Even their "But He's a POW!" defense doesn't get traction because there's no time to talk about it, 'cause that time is taken up by the Veep Watch. (Side note: once SNL does a "When I was in 'Nam" sketch, that defense is done and done.)

In all, masterfully played by the Obama camp.