..out of the dark

And everyone is pissed at Clinton for poisoning the last few weeks with another bout of personality- based trash, and so driving on the Obama campaign's "we're not like them" narcissists, and removing any and all debate from the public sphere.

Oh, wait. Not everyone.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/coda-by-digby-apologies-for-dearth-of.html

The election of the first African American president will signal the end of the era of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. And nothing could be more fitting.

Also, congratulations to Senator Clinton, who in my view showed Democrats what a fighter looks like. This is the closest primary in history and despite what the bloviators and the gasbags have been saying for months, she had not only a right, but a duty, to fight on until the end for the half of the Democratic party that supported her. Clinton too was an historic candidate who inspired millions of people and she has my admiration.

If I might digress a bit and say one word about the Clintons, who to many are personas non grata in the Democratic Party now. Whatever happens, Bill Clinton will still be the 42nd president of the United States and the first two term Democrat since Roosevelt. That's never going to change.
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Clinton will officially end suspend the campaign on Friday, (which is perfectly in keeping with the usual timing of these things contrary to the gasbags' ahistorical and overwrought blathering of last night.) We will see what the Republicans have in store for us. And maybe we can start behaving like ourselves again.

You mean, and vote for Bush twice because you're scared to death and want big brother to take away your rights, kill the brownies, save the world, and make it all better?

Family fights are always painful, but they are usually easily healed as well. Here's to the end of the Long March of 2008. It's been real.

Oh, for fuck's sake.