WARNING: This is an extremely long diary - read ahead at your own peril.
...to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
- Michael Corleone
If you look through the few diaries and comments I've posted here at DailyKos, it's very quickly apparent that I'm a bit of an Obama partisan. I happen to like Barack Obama quite a bit, and will do so almost no matter what. That said, I never had a lot of hatred or disdain for Hillary or Bill Clinton; in fact, I was a big fan back in the 1990s, and thereafter. I generally felt that they made the best of a bad situation, I suppose. I've lost some of that respect I once had, given recent events of the campaign that need not be rehashed, but in watching the debates, even though I thought Obama did a great job, I was reminded of how Hillary isn't so awful, and that I would support her 100% in November.
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