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“A duty owed to the American people”

Plus one to Scarecrow at Firedoglake for this take on last night’s Democratic “valedictory debate”:

[Hillary Clinton's] final line was one she might have borrowed (with irony) from John Edwards, at an earlier moment in this campaign when the Democratic party essentially recognized that retaking the Presidency and indeed the point of government service was a duty owed to the American people. It is they who have suffered through the dreadful years of the Bush Administration, and it is their economic future and security that are at stake.

…The main message Democrats are delivering is that we have two exceptional candidates who understand what has happened and who are both committed to do something about the mess we’re in, to address the problems with intelligence and compassion and to pursue solutions with energy and determination. We have not had a government like that in nearly at least a decade, and the thunderous applause last night was all in anticipation of its imminent return.

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