No argument here that Sen. Obama’s nomination will be historic, but aren’t we getting just a tad carried away?

Hat tip: Stereohyped

Rep. William Lacy Clay: “It’s a good day in America.”

Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr.: “I cried all night. I’m going to be crying for the next four years. What Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nation’s political history. … The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance…

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn: “I thought this day would come, but I didn’t think I’d live to see it,” Clyburn said. “I got home, and I was so emotional I couldn’t feel myself. I was numb.”