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• Monday, May 12, 2008 07:09 AM

  Death with dignity? Would someone euthanize this article, please? And put a fork in the whole "triumph of hope over experience" myth while you're at it.

  Uh, Walter, could you have written a worse opening paragraph than this one? You give us an entire paragraph about West Indian birds? I realize you are trying to be droll, but it didn't work...at all...no...not a bit.

  Also, given your role as a regular Salon shill for Hillary, don't think we didn't notice your passive-aggressive dig.

  "So what will it take for Obama to finally be allowed to celebrate the triumph of hope over experience?" -- you write, most passive-aggressively.

  Again, may we remind you, Walter, that Obama -- with years of experience in state and national legislature, community organizing, constitutional law, a global world view, and the good judgment to have opposed the war from the start, is about more than "hope."

  And Hillary's "experience" includes being a political wife, dodging imaginary sniper fire, bungling health reform, and voting to authorize the war in Iraq -- AND then doubling down by voting for Iran.

  To continue to position Obama's triumph as the "triumph of hope over experience" betrays a Hillary-centric labeling of the candidates and their positions -- it's right out of her campaign playbook.

  Enough already, Walter.

  E N O U G H !!!!!

  —AncientAssyrian Read AncientAssyrian's other letters
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