Slackie Onassis wrote:

"Hey, how about a debate on how best to resolve the MI and FL delegates issue? That'd be worth hearing, like their respective rationales on that. It'd be informative, and would certainly reveal differences in the candidates' positions, and how each would best represent the Democratic Party and its values in their stances on the delegates issue."

What a terrific idea! Now, that's a debate I'd to see.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Obama has shown Clinton a tremendous amount of respect, capped off by his extremely gracious acknowledgement of her candidacy in his victory speech last night.

However, the same cannot be said of Clinton. Repeatedly, she has shown him little to no respect. Obama played by the rules while exploiting weaknesses in her early campaign strategy. He won the nomination fair and square.

Frankly, I found her speech last night just this side of appalling. I cannot help but wonder if her ultimate goal isn't to dismantle the Democratic Party as it now stands and remake it with her as its spiritual leader. It would somewhat like what Reagan managed to do with the GOP after he lost the '76 nomination. And in her order to remake the Democratic Party in her own image, Clinton is trying to use triangulation tactics -- women, working-class whites and Hispanics -- to marginalize the party's African American base of support.

Her approach would amount to an utterly selfish continuation of identity politics for the sake of grabbing and holding onto power.

Bob

Joan,

Calling Obama an "inadequate black male," as Harriet Christian apparently did (I didn't witness it), is more than a "deplorable reference." It's good 'ole fashioned racism. Thus, I wonder how many of the liberal, feminist angry white females who supported Clinton simply have major issues with race. Many white men, fairly or unfairly, are oftentimes castigated as being hopelessly racist. But maybe we need a closer examination of the attitudes of white women, older white women in particular. In fact, that would be a good topic for Salon to explore.

I would hope that Clinton would in lending her support to Obama would denounce and reject such negative comments made by some of her supporters and explain that they don't represent her views.

Bob