The Post makes the right call on today’s rally planned for Sen. Barack Obama at Nissan Pavilion is Bristow, Va. It’s going to be a traffic nightmare of epic proportions. You thought the Radiohead debacle was bad? Imagine a free 6 p.m. event open to all comers that will kickoff a historic national campaign for president by a candidate with huge support from young, enthusiastic, politically-minded, college-educated Democrats in a metro area that has one of the highest concentrations of same anywhere in the country.

Parking lots at Nissan will open today at 2 p.m., with doors opening at 3. If you were planning to go and haven’t left already, you may already be too late. The venue holds 25,000 people, but Democratic organizers are expecting up to 50,000 to show up. There’s virtually no way that the portion of I-66 leading to the Nissan Pavilion will not be a parking lot during this evening’s commute, so plan accordingly.

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