Hillary Couldn't Have Done it Any Better

Sen. Hillary Clinton gave the lie to all the irresponsible and unfounded media speculation about her reservations about endorsing Barack Obama tonight in a masterful speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. In a talk that was soaring, inspirational, uplifting and unselfish to the maximum degree, she not only endorsed Obama, she told her supporters that if they don't work and vote for the Democratic ticket, then she will be ashamed of them for acting out of pure selfishness. "Were you in this only for me?" she asked, "or were you in this for the future of this nation?"

Not only did she challenge and instruct her supporters, she took the best shots at John McSame that we've heard from the main speakers at this gathering. She flat-out unified every Democrat who is not simply outside the pale of reason and suasion. And she did it with brilliant rhetoric, superb pacing, and a gut sense of what people want to hear.

Michelle Obama last night. Hillary Clinton tonight. The GOP doesn't have a single woman leader fit to carry the briefcase of either of those women.

So again I'm reduced to a single word of assessment.

Wow.