I am very surprised that the Secret Service isn't actual being much more aggressive with the mobs at the McCain [Klan] rallies. They're supposed to be watching out for anything and everything. Just because the agents at McCain's and Palin's rallies are attached to the candidates, they are all agents of the same Secret Service. Lets just assume for a moment that there is a lunatic at one of those rallies who presents a credible threat to Obama. Who is going to have to deal with that lunatic should he/she decide to take action? Other Secret Service agents. I don't know about the Secret Service, but I know most operators in other groups or agencies tend to look out for their own first. A credible lunatic at a McCain-Palin rally doesn't just represent a threat to Obama, that lunatic would also represent a threat to the Secret Service detail attached to Obama. If I were an agent at one of McCain's rallies and heard some of what I've been hearing, you better believe I'd be expressing my concerns all the way to the top.

I agree that the progressive agenda is very important, but I see the chance of a progressive agenda moving forward with a Clinton presidency as very weak, perhaps not at all. I agree that there's little substantive difference between Obama's and Clinton's policies, but I believe Obama will be the only one capable of moving a progressive agenda forward because of his influence on changing how things in Washington work. It is the people - the nearly two million of us who have donated to his campaign - who will be the voices that keep pressure on our elected officials to do what is right for the country, not what is right for their political careers. Clinton cannot boast that same level of individual support, nor can she rely on it because her negative campaign tactics taken straight from the republican play book will have turned so many of us off.

I will not vote for Hillary because that vote would be an endorsement of politics as usual, an endorsement that says it's acceptable to tear down your fellow party member if that's what it takes to win. I have waited my entire adult life for a candidate I could be proud to vote for, as opposed to a candidate that is the lesser evil. I am tired of voting for candidates that I get stuck with, so this time I am voting my conscience. A Clinton presidency will mean more of the same, just as a McCain presidency would be more of the same. It is only a matter of degree to which things would be the same. Both Clinton and McCain presidencies would mean a continuation of corporate-owned government, and I for one have had enough.

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Josh got this one just about right. Emotional infantilism, indeed. As someone who has been guilty of this very thing, I am glad Josh is calling us all on our bullshit. I am heavily invested emotionally, mentally, financially, and physically in the Obama campaign. My first knee-jerk reaction to some of the other reader posts who are looking for a fight on the convention floor is to bring that fight. I'll be Denver, and if there is going to be a fight, I'll fight hard. I won't be able to help myself.

Democrats have the best chance we have had in decades of transforming the government, and it may all disappear as the party turns on itself. What is very sad about this all, is that I may end up being partly responsible.