The problem with the solutions proposed so far for seating Michigan and Florida delegates is continuing unfairness to large numbers of voters.

The Michigan voters who would have voted for Obama but couldn't.

The thousands of voters in both states who stayed home because they'd been told that their primary wouldn't count won't be heard, either. I've read that the turnout in Florida and Michigan failed to follow the huge surge in all the other Dem primaries.

But maybe there's a way...

If there was ever an indicator of how badly we need Obama's leadership, it's a new poll from Rasmussen that says 58% of us believe that Obama denounced Wright for political convenience.

That includes a plurality of Democrats. Only 36% of Democrats believe outrage was the motivation for him to denounce Wright. Yes, our cynicism is well motivated by burns from preceding pols, but how can so many brains be that calloused, especially after seeing and hearing Obama?

Yeah, the conventional wisdom is that politics is a dirty game, but that's the way you've gotta play it. And Hillary is in full Smackdown mode.

I hate it a lot. And I don't think it HAS to be that way. It wouldn't be if I were running for President, and I don't think it would be if it were you, either. And there's a scary undercurrent to her approach.

An article on the History News Network offers a survey of 109 historians on the presidency of George W. Bush.

My favorite quotes:

"No individual president can compare to the second Bush," wrote one. "Glib, contemptuous, ignorant, incurious, a dupe of anyone who humors his deluded belief in his heroic self, he has bankrupted the country with his disastrous war and his tax breaks for the rich, trampled on the Bill of Rights, appointed foxes in every henhouse, compounded the terrorist threat, turned a blind eye to torture and corruption and a looming ecological disaster, and squandered the rest of the world’s goodwill. In short, no other president’s faults have had so deleterious an effect on not only the country but the world at large."

I supported you, John, and then you were gone. But one candidate remained  committed to change, as you were. Who appeals to the best in us, as you did.

Here are your words from your website:

"I began my presidential campaign here to remind the country that we, as citizens and as a government, have a moral responsibility to each other, and what we do together matters. We must do better, if we want to live up to the great promise of this country that we all love so much."

Speaking of moral responsibilities. . .