When she concedes the nomination, the machinery will shift dramatically. We will see the Axis of Evil go into flat-out slander, shock-and-awe-by-falsification, continuing their efforts to degrade and distort the ideals of demopcracy. We will see the remnants of the Hillry machine line up behind Obama in some sort of order and I can only hope she herself can be as good a sport as he would be if he were the loser instead of the winner. I hate zero sum gamemanship. It is so shortsighted. But that's the playing field we will be facing, and the mud-howitzers, swiftboaters, and manure-sprayer-bombs will be flying.

We need to get a leeetle more ruthless about the use of pushbutton rhetoric.

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