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Dana ponders the meaning of Hillary Clinton's speech:
The suggestion that Hillary Clinton could have been anything less than wildly enthusiastic in her support for Barack Obama last night was always, on its face, ridiculous. Her place in history as the first woman to come within grasp of the presidency will now forever be shadowed by her ability to convince the nation that she fully endorses the quest of the first African American with a chance at achieving the ambition she held so long for herself.
And Paul Waldman considers what kind of speech Obama can and should give tomorrow:
But there's something else worth hoping for in Obama's speech, something that has been glimpsed only occasionally in his presidential campaign: a full-throated defense not just of his candidacy or of the vague ideas of change and progress but of progressivism as an ideology. And while he's at it, he could offer an attack not just on the actual failures of George W. Bush or the potential failures of John McCain but on the failure that is conservatism.
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