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• Friday, August 22, 2008 10:16 AM

  Enough already!

  When does this crap stop? Even after Clinton conceded graciously the media has been portraying her as the Wicked Witch of the West and propagating the meme of the Nefarious Clintons, waiting in the wings for their chance to screw things up. And nothing either of them do or don't do is allowed to count against the hypothesis: no matter how early Hillary had conceded it wouldn't have been early enough; no matter how gracious her concession speech was it wasn't gracious enough; no matter how enthusiastically the Clintons support Obama it won't be enthusiastically enough and will be read as some sort of ploy. And if Clinton in her speech in supporting Obama does a great job and gets an enthusiastic reception, the pundits and bloggers will write that off as more ego and self-promotion.

  I was an Edwards supporter. He didn't get it so I had to move some ways to the right and support Clinton. When she didn't get it I moved another smidge to the right to support Obama. Of course I support Obama, and of course so will other serious Democrats who supported other candidates in the primaries.

  All I can see in this current drama is sexism and ageism. The pitch is: move over old ladies and has-been politicians. Time for the young and cool to shine. Grovel to us--anything else and you're just disruptive and obstructive.

  —LogicGuru Read LogicGuru's other letters
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