Hate is the leading cause of blindness and when we're consumed by it, we fail to recognize the best in people. And I think what we're overlooking at this point in time is the fact that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are both very courageous people. Peel away your partisanship and consider what it takes to run for the highest office in the land. We the chattering classes are lucky to have candidates that continue to wake up every day in towns and cities of across the country to meet as many voters as they can. To give as many talks and speeches as they can. To answer questions and give interviews, one after another, over and over again, your every word and every move carefully tracked and monitored and criticized 24/7 for nearly two years.
Hard enough for a middle-aged white man, nevermind a woman or an African American.
It takes guts and passion and I sometimes wonder how they manage to tolerate all the scrutiny without thinking "is this really worth the prospect of cleaning up the god-awful mess made by the worst president since the dawn of man?
We're lucky to have two democrats who think it is.