An article on HuffPost says that Hillary supporters are grieving and asks Obama do do something to win their support.

Let's stipulate that some Hillary supporters who are women are grieving..

What are the 5 stages of grief, according to Kubler-Ross?  Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

For Clinton's original and later-coming supporters, the denial phase began after it became clear that the delegate math simply did not support a Clinton win after a certain point, without major tinkering with the reality as presented. Anger emerged as primary during the last phase of the campaign as denial began to give away and continued after the last primary was run. It is still running strong among some but has merged into bargaining, which is what I think is being expressed when we hear talk of what Obama has to do to win their votes and allegiance. The depression phase emerges in the dark view of the future: We will not see her like again in my/our lifetimes; this was the opportunity, now it is gone.

I hope and pray that the acceptance phase begins soon, both for those with these awful feelings, and for the rest of us for whom an Obama presidency presents a tremendous opportunity to begin the long, frustrating, and difficult process of shifting the direction of our nation with the involvement of the many, many people who have become engaged in this effort.

Maureen Down in the Times today asks the right question:

While McCain’s experience was heroic, did it create a worldview incapable of anticipating the limits to U.S. military power in Iraq? Did he fail to absorb the lessons of Vietnam, so that he is doomed to always want to refight it? Did his captivity inform a search-and-destroy, shoot-first-ask-questions-later, “We are all Georgians,” mentality?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/opinion/24dowd.html?ref=opinion

War hero, savior of the Nation U.S. Grant was a shoo-in for President.  His term was a disastrous mess. 

Just because you were a war hero doesn't give you the judgment and temperament for the presidency, eh? And Grant was elected in 1872, just a few years after the end of the Civil War. 

Can the Democratic ad-makers do something with that?  Would they?