Letters to the Editor
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From Joan Walsh
Hi Carol, thanks for asking about what I said on Hardball. I said a lot of what I said here last night: Obama's speech was great, and his success in winning over the portion of the Democratic coalition that has doubts about him will depend at least partially on how he treats their candidate, Hillary Clinton. And he knows that; he was awesome last night.
As I've said for months, Obama's terrific, but some of his supporters, not so much. There are a fair number of sore winners on this thread. There are also a couple of people who really do seem like GOP trolls posing as Obama supporters. The nastiness on both sides (there are some "Clinton supporters" who probably work side by side with the creepiest "Obama supporters" in a basement somewhere) are just going to be good news for John McCain.
I'm actually taking some time to think about my next post on the election. I do believe Clinton is near the end, and I want to think about what happens next. I disagree with people who thought this was not a worthy post; the debate between Brazile and Begala defines the race at this point.
I should also note that of course, blogging isn't my job at Salon. I had a full day of meetings about some other great things we have going on, which we'll be rolling out shortly. Thanks for your patience.