Mrs. Clinton finally did what everyone was pressuring her to do. With grace, a positive attitude and a message of unity, she accepted defeat with complete contradiction as to how her detractors describe her.

Her campaign is fundamentally over, but I suspect many in her party may come to regret it although Mr. Obama will do a great job. Those outside of her party, know her strength. Those who dislike her the most began last year constantly repeating their rhetoric: “ we would love to go against her in the general election”. That alone tells astute individuals a lot. (The lady doth protest too much, methinks.)

Most people are hoping for the best no matter what the results of the election are. This election should be easy for Mr. Obama to win, but it won’t be. Will Hillary Clinton become the next Vice President? Even Ronald Reagan knew what to do when he wanted to assure himself that he would become the next President.

The issues for the Democratic party regarding the delegates is not going away. This, of course, is the way it should be. Determining the candidate is what the national convention is for. But clearly a decision as to how to proceed at this point did have to be made.

Would a credible solution have been to act early on and remove the Democratic State party officials who made the decision to have early elections?

This is not rhetorical. I am looking for us to have dialogue on where we should go from here. Some are suggesting a Clinton / Obama ticket. Others are suggesting we end it here. I see that there were rules made and violated but that was done by the leadership and the members, of course, want their vote counted. There may not be a way to appease everyone, but is the present solution the closest we will get to consensus?

The issues for the Democratic party regarding the delegates is not going away. This, of course, is the way it should be. Determining the candidate is what the national convention is for. But clearly a decision as to how to proceed at this point did have to be made.

Would a credible solution have been to act early on and remove the Democratic State party officials who made the decision to have early elections?

This is not rhetorical. I am looking for us to have dialogue on where we should go from here. Some are suggesting a Clinton / Obama ticket. Others are suggesting we end it here. I see that there were rules made and violated but that was done by the leadership and the members, of course, want their vote counted. There may not be a way to appease everyone, but is the present solution the closest we will get to consensus?

Whether one is a democrat or republican, liberal or conservative or for George Bush or against him, loyalty should matter.

Scott McClellan’s book is a disgrace and seems to say more about him than about the President. I am basing my conclusion on just the small parts that I have read, however, I can already see that loyalty has no value to him and money has a lot.

Why didn’t he speak up several years ago? Staying within the circle of power meant more to him then the truth at that time, and now he is giving another example of his own shameless lack of integrity. He may excuse himself somewhere in the book, I am not going to waste a lot of time reading the whole thing looking for that, but it is obvious that his purpose in publishing his rhetoric is about making a profit.

He will end up with money but who will he end up with for friends?

The battle between Democrats is poised to continue, as it should. After listening closely to both personal and public discussions it becomes clear that some individuals talk on one side of an argument but then, in the midst of all the confusion, join the group that is promoting the other side.

Barack Obama’s campaign is insistent that the battle is over. It strikes a similar sense to me as when Republicans last year were insisting that Hillary Clinton was their choice as an opponent for them in the fall election. The reality is the Republicans have always been in awe and frightened of Mrs. Clinton. She was not who they wanted to be running against. Evidently, Mr. Obama, and some other Democrats, feel the same. They are now using the same mentality that the Republicans were using as they try desperately to create their own reality. The reality is, the battle for the Democratic nominee, is not over.

There is suddenly such a rage about the purpose and power of super delegates in the Democratic party. One individual told me recently that super delegates get to cast a vote that counts one thousand times to the regular delegates one vote. How democratic is that, he asked. I ask, where does this type of misinformation come from? Evidently, the anger and sense of frustration that results because an organization is not set up in a purely democratic way, manifests itself into this perception of a thousand fold injustice.

Similar discussion and confusion prevails every four years about the electoral college.

The truth is, that this is just a party issue. If the Democrats choose a nominee that other members of the party are not happy with, then their candidate can run for office as a member of another party. This is not the general election. Each party uses their own rules to identify the candidate that they believe will promote their platform and win in the general election. The real injustice would not be that the super delegates play a role and elect Hillary Clinton. The real injustice would be if the process stopped now.