Kash, you say you want a Dem in the White House.

Act like it.

I won't bash you, Hillary. It was a difficult speech you had to make and you did a fine job. Thank you, Ma'am.

But if we may ask -- please Ma'am -- please put a muzzle on your friends, Diane Finestein and Charlie Rangel. Because, although we are sure you had nothing whatsoever to do with it, we are dismayed that less than 24 hours after your suspension and speech of endorsement, they took it upon themselves to promote you as VP on the Sunday talk show circuit.

I know you have no control over your colleagues or your posse. What are you to do in the face of such devotion that you have not already done on television? I'm sure that, just as you asked your posse of 18,000,000 to work for Obama, you asked your colleagues to drop the VP pitch.

This must be such an embarrassment to you. Never mind. We know your heart is in the right place and that you would never attempt to pressure your nominee for your own agenda, or sabotage perception of him as a strong, independent leader who is building momentum.

We know that you are all about unity and working together for a common purpose.

Thank you. And do send us a postcard from your vacation resort in Timbucktu. You have earned it.

The primary campaign is over. I think it was Churchill who counseled us top be magnanimous in victory.

But more importantly, how are those 18m voters going to feel, especially if they're true Democrats, not the swinging Reagan types, when they see the endless regurgitation from the McCain camp of Hillary's virulent attacks on the Democratic nominee?

They have a 3 page list apparently of attacks on Obama from fellow Democratic nominees and most of it came from Clinton and her campaign.

I'm hoping those attacks start soon because I think it'll have a significant dampening effect on the pressure to pick her as VP.

There's an excellent post at the top of the rec list at DailyKOS right now that addresses how Hillary can fix all this, redeem herself for any of these past wrongs, and unify the party fairly easily. I thought it very interesting & would love to see it in action.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/8/151954/3212/594/532308

Why would anyone recommend this? What purpose does this serve? What thought-provoking nugget might someone have found here that they deemed worthwhile enough to commend this to others? What idea was expressed? How clever and nuanced? I can hardly fathom.

The party is dead, too.
Nobody heals when an election is stolen.

If you're going to write a post like this, at least leave out sentences like this: "I have always tried to show restraint when it comes to Hillary bashing."

I have a different take on Hillary's campaign now that it is all over.

Nothing her "oppo" research came up with was going to stay hidden, and absolutely nothing she did wasn't going to be done by the forces of darkness McCain has turned to in 2008 to keep the white house in their hands and this great country on the wrong course for four more years.

I was pissed when I watched some of the tactics used by some people in her campaign and what they did with what they found, however, things like the Rev Wright video was gonna come out anyway, and faux noise and the RNC 527's would have done in late Oct in the general election, what they had to do in democratic primary with it, hence in some strange way Barack was able to address this issue long before it could be used to ambush him and the American people.

In a very interesting way Hillary forced him to grow a little tougher, and figure out how to respond to attacks like this, which he was able to do, with grace and style. If Hillary wasn't able to get Barack Obama off message, then it is going to be much harder for republicans to do so, because Barack has been given a lesson in what he faces, early enough he could adapt while staying inside his own positive campaign.

Now on to letting John McCain have the best both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton can give that pompous self serving politician. (and Bill too)

I can not abide sore losers. What the hell is the matter with you. Senator Clinton has conceded and asked all of her supporters to vote for Senator Obama. Why can you not take Yes for an answer.

Senator McCain, on the other hand, congratulates you for your good work in continuing to sow discord among progressive Democrats. Now is the time for all progressives to rally behind our nominee, and for all sore losers, and more especially Sore Winners, like the author of this irrational blog, to just STFU NOW!

I don't share this sentiment and more importantly Barack Obama doesn't share your sentiment. The reason why Barack won was because he was always magnanimous and was always willing to reach out to friends and perceived "enemies" (within reason) alike. Clinton essentially lost because she did not do these things.

You are doing the opposite of what Obama succeeded with and espouses all his supporters to do. By being a magnanimous winner do you begin to make your former rivals your current partners.

To this day many old Japanese folk still fondly remember U.S. army-men tossing chocolate bars and candy to the hungry kids after the end of WWII. Lets stop the divisiveness already.

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Just as Clinton supporters are going through a period of adjustment, so am I as an Obama supporter.

This sounds like human nature, no matter whom we supported during the primary.

Until yesterday, my stomach was in knots, worried that Hillary wouldn't concede for weeks or months, would never say she wanted to unite the party, much less carry through. Yes, throughout the campaign, she said she'd work to bring everyone together, once we had a nominee. However, her actions spoke more loudly, and she kept damaging Obama and the party as no primary candidate has in the past.

Her speech on Tuesday was unsettling in the extreme.

So I'm hugely relieved that at least, she said a lot of the right things yesterday.

Now that my stomach's starting to relax for the first time in months, I haven't presto! change-o! flipped to feeling positive about Hillary. That may never happen, and even though my anger will abate in the future, I won't be able to trust her again.

It's been clear for months that Hillary couldn't win enough delegates, unless masses of them turned against the party. For months, this information has been available to Hillary's supporters.

What Obama supporters couldn't know was what Hillary might do that would guarantee a McCain victory.

And now, the Obama supporters are saying Hillary supporters need weeks and months to adjust, even though the Obama campaign didn't pull any dirty tricks on their candidate.

Obama supporters need time to adjust, too, and to debrief with each other about how frightening and maddening Hillary's campaign was for us and for the party. She did a lot of damage. We'd be unrealistic not to worry that she may do more during the GE.

For the most part, Obama supporters here have respected constructive Hillary supporters and have given them time to go through their process, whether they switched to Obama or not.

I hope we will extend ourselves the same courtesy.

Wait...she f'ed the party because she wouldnt roll over and play dead for you???

Grow up man. Obama doesnt need supporters like you.

Sore winners and sore losers. Great combo.

I was wondering which piss-ant on this site would scribble some puerile last shot at Clinton before running completely out of anything worthwhile to say - turns out it was the piss-antiest poster of them all. Congrats.

ONe interesting thing i've found is that people seem to thing that its Obama's job alone to "unify" the party, even though he's not the one who divided it up in the first place.

Hillary Clinton ran a negative kitchen-sink campaign, and in the process alienated everyone from african-americans to the "activist base".

And yet, judging by the comments coming from the "kumbya" crowd, she bears absolutely no responsibility at all in trying to put this party back together again.

I get that obama is the nominee. And i'm damned proud of that fact. And as the nominee, he HAS to put the party together again for its HIS party now.

But he's not the one responsible for dividing it. Hillary Clinton is. And she should have some responsibilty in putting it back together again.

Clinton made the mess, and now Obama has to try and clean it up.