Politics and Family Matters: What Hillary Must Do.

Tonight's address by Mrs. Clinton to the DNC faithful gathered in Denver has been much talked about. Perhaps too much?

The task at hand is really not that complex. The mission should be clear. A seasoned mature politician must speak to her political family. Albeit a family still suffering from some real (and some petty) divisions. Formerly a contender for the keys to the Democratic Kingdom, Mrs. Clinton must now acknowledge that they now belong to Obama. Further, she must unequivocally aver that they belong to him by virtue of a wholly legitimate democratic primary process. Perhaps not one that all her supporters agreed with; but a legitimate process nonetheless.

Then she must do the that go one step further. She must assume the mantle of, not the Democratic Party's grand old lady, but rather its knowing 'den mother' - she must extol her erstwhile supporters to drop their opposition to the idea of an Obama presidency. A family, she must say, gets past these things. A family built on common values, she must say, must pull together in the face of those who would seek to divide it. A family she must say, that fights and then stays together can achieve miracles.

And then, and only then should she go after McCain. Not McCain the man, but the 'idea' of the man, the disease of his party, and the horror of its legacy.

Tonight, this is all she need do; and she is ideally suited to do so.
It's should be nothing but a simple 'Stand & Deliver'.