Out of respect for your wishes, and for my own sanity, I'm planning on greatly curtailing my posting here. For better or for worse, I can't change my support of Hillary Clinton and my opinions about things that happened in the primary season, but I don't like how negative and cynical my postings have become of late, and I doubt I'm helping anyone or anything by writing them. The people who know me in real life would probably be surprised to see the change. After all, we all got into politics because we believe that politics at its best can make a real positive difference to people, and I've gotten away from that. I apologize to those I've rubbed the wrong way.

I'll just say that I hope that the Democratic Party, whether with Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or anyone else as its forefront, soon makes itself worthy of the heartfelt and ardent support it has received from so many people. In the end, for all my doubts and disappointment, I want to believe like I used to.

It is hard to fathom that A-listers are not reading Anglachel, though thoughtful discussion of her writings seems hard to come by on the Obamablogs:

Hillary and Bill can deliver these kinds of speeches that go hammer and tongs after the Republicans, speeches that resonate with the core of the party, because they don't feel the need to capitualte on being Democrats. There is no nod to bipartisanship just for its own sake. Struggles in Washington are not always bad if what you are fighting is the pillaging of the nation and an assualt on our basic liberties. They are as partisan as the moment will allow, and now is the time to go all out. What the anti-Clinton faction can't figure out (or won't cop to) is that Bill and Hillary have moved on from the embattled times of the Movement Conservative ascendency and are pushing a significantly more hard-nosed and tough approach to politics than you hear form the rest of the party, which is seems stuck in a timewarp from 14 years ago, Hillary even more than Bill.

After her sharp critique of the weak points in Obama's speech and a celebration of the Clintons' aggressive partisan ethic by Anglachel at 9:30, two formerly A-list bloggers suddenly have the same thought (at 10:30pm, provided the timestamps are correct) as Anglachel's most insightful point about the Clintons' speeches at the convention. However, our intrepid Obama bloggers attribute the Clintons' accomplishments to Obama. Entirely coincidental, I suppose, but an interesting tear in the time-space continuum of a progressive and two CDS afflicted bloggers.

From Obama tonight:

Friend --
This night could not have happened 40 years ago -- or even 4 years ago.
And it could not have happened without you.
You believed, against the odds, that change was possible. I felt your passion here tonight, and I know it was shared by millions of Americans who are building this movement all across the country.
Tonight is your night. But tonight is just the beginning.
The general election is going to be faster and tougher than anything we've faced so far. And our opponents will do everything they can to tear us down.
I need your support more than ever.
Make a donation of $25 or more right now:
****
Our party is united. Our purpose is clear. And our goal is in sight.
Thank you for everything you've done,
Barack

Remember all that hoopla about Super Delegates during the primaries?  Well, in the end, only one Super Delegate mattered.  Her name was Hillary Clinton.

The whole argument about revolts at the convention was a straw horse. Had Clinton convinced enough Supers, Obama would have done what Hillary did, or his future in Democratic Party politics would have been over.

We need to remember this if, heaven forbid, we ever find ourselves in this situation again.  And we could.

Sure, maybe even without the spurious "will of the people" arguments, and suggestions of revolts, Clinton still wouldn't have been able to convince enough Supers.  But we'll never know.