Moody Tuesday - why the protracted battle for the Dem nomination is a good for America

[trogdor]

Clinton and Obama traded blows in a slugfest that could now go all the way to the convention in Denver in August. This won’t be pretty. You know the movie: cigars, whiskey, money and smoke-filled rooms in Colorado as a strange species of party brass known as superdelegates do deals.

I love it. After the fear, aloofness and manipulation that have been the coin of the Bush administration’s realm, a district-by-district battle for the Democratic nomination is what the country needed to reignite dulled senses and cowed hopes.

A woman and an African-American, both of rare talent, are <b>raising the political bar and ending business as usual</b> just when America’s image was most jaded.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/opinion/07cohen.html