OK, so I'll admit I'm in a foul mood today, and it goes back to the Roshomon-esque experience of seeing uncritical praise for Hillary's speech here last night. That speech made me want to run my fist through the wall.

I really wanted to get back to liking her and Bill, and I'd hoped she'd give me reason to do so. But it was just another stump speech -- a really good stump speech, but as a stump speech, it was wildly out of place and full of stuff that just wasn't true, from the introduction as the "Next President of the United States" to the familiar "Most votes ever" Blahblah to the "Won the popular vote" Blahblah to the "Won South Dakota, the last primary*" Blahblah.

She needed to do something to start binding up the wounds, and except for the "I like Barack" disclaimer at the beginning, she just didn't.

Hilary Rosen, a staunch Clinton supporter who has taken a lot of bullets for HRC on CNN said it extremely well (although I don't think it's fair to credit Bill and Hillary's civil rights work for Obama's success).

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I, too kept waiting for something I didn't hear. In times like these, I go back to my raisings, and since I was raised on the Bible, and I know Hillary professes to be very religious, I'd hoped maybe she'd read this before making that speech:

To every thing there is a season
and a time to every purpose under
the heaven:

A time to be born, and a time to die,
A time to plant, and a time to pluck
up that which is planted;

A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down; and a time
to build up;

A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones; and a time
to gather stones together;
A time to embrace and a time to refrain
from embracing;

A time to get, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence and a time to speak
A time to love, and a time to hate;
A time of war, and a time of peace.

For everything there is a time under heaven.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-9