spent most of today with the thought in the back of my mind that we're facing, at least, seven weeks' worth of damage to the Democratic party while McCain's campaign laps up video and audio to use against us once we finally, if ever, have a nominee.
The better half of that time was engaged in trying to look at the bright side, like the fact that yet more states will get to have their say in what has become a truly national process, that even Michigan and Florida might be able to make amends with a new primary or caucus (and it looks like it's beginning to happen). I tried real hard to find the sunny side in all this.
And then I come home to read this sewage:
"I think that since we now know Sen. McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center in this election. We all know that. And I think it's imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the commander-in-chief threshold," the New York senator told reporters crowded into an infant's bedroom-sized hotel conference room in Washington.
"I believe that I've done that. Certainly, Sen. McCain has done that and you'll have to ask Sen. Obama with respect to his candidacy," she said.
Calling McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee a good friend and a "distinguished man with a great history of service to our country," Clinton said, "Both of us will be on that stage having crossed that threshold."
Only the Democratic party could take the biggest structural and atmospheric electoral advantage they've had in, well, forever, and manage to screw it up with words like that.