Larry Roibal

Last night the Democratic party kicked off its four day convention to nominate Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden to lead the party in this falls election and become the next president and vice president of our nation. The delegates were treated to a speech by Caroline Kennedy; a Ken Burns tribute film to the Lion of the Senate, Ted Kennedy; a speech by the 76 year old senator, who recently suffered from a malignant brain tumor but made the journey to Denver to endorse Barack Obama; what I thought was a great speech by Michelle Obama; and capped off by Michelle and Barack’s adorable girls teleconferencing with their daddy from Kansas City….. but I couldn’t help notice that there was a subtext to the proceedings… especially if you were watching CNN….Get over it already!

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This weekend at the Democratic Rules Committee, Clinton loyalist Harold Ickes said that Senator Clinton instructed him to reserve the right to appeal to the Credentials Committee at the Democratic convention in August.

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Yesterday Senator Clinton won a battle in Indiana but lost the war for the Democratic nomination to become President of the United States. It’s over.

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Is it just me, or are Jeremiah’s fifteen minutes starting to feel more like an eternity?

Is team Clinton helping to prolonging the story? Here’s an interesting tidbit from Daily News Columnist Errol Louis.

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When you’ve campaigned for two years and exhausted every issue, it comes to this. Your gaffe is worse than my gaffe.