BS: "We will be taking on [...] the establishment wing of the Democratic party"

[jamesatemple]

45. As it sometimes happens, into the midst of the furor comes the calm voice of logic and reasoning.

Thank you, Jim Lane. Perhaps we can pull the Democratic Party into some semblance of unity once each adherent has an opportunity to "vent his spleen". The stabilization of the Party is not advanced by the continuing rhetoric of "my candidate is better than your candidate" followed by hand-picked examples designed to prove the point. Perhaps a greater effort to construct a party platform for the near future would be advisable. Once a platform that meets so close a consensus as we can muster is done, it seems to me that that would be the time for each of us to recommend a candidate who, we feel, might best advance and support such a platform.

Simplistic? Certainly. Yet what is accomplished by all the in-fighting over the past? We can't do anything about the past but learn from it and use the lessons it teaches in order to affect the future.

I'll be 77 years-old in November. I'd love to see healthcare made a "right" for my children and grandchildren and every other citizen of this Country before I take my leave of this life term. Hurry! I don't have a lot of time left.