Well, just when I think Clinton has done something straightforward to support the candidate who defeated her for the Democratic presidential nomination, she surprises me. Now, she has released her delegates and more or less invited tnem not to vote for Obama.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton today told her delegates they were free to vote for Sen. Barack Obama during tonight’s nominating roll call, but she did not direct them to do so. “I am here to release you as my delegates,” Clinton told her supporters at the Convention Center in Denver. Many responded with shouts of “No, no.” She added, to cheers, “I am not telling you what to do.”

Clinton, who waged a sometimes bitter campaign with Obama through a long series of primaries and caucuses, said she marked her ballot for Obama this morning. “Many other people who sign their ballots will make a different choice,” she said, adding that whatever decision delegates make, “you are to be given the respect and recognition you have earned as delegates for the Democratic Party.”

from nationaljournal.com

I’m now thinking that what I took to be an honest effort to do the right thing last night was really just one more deceptive maneuver, made plausible by Clinton’s obvious enjoyment of the limelight. The Clintons are getting really tiresome. I’m going to watch tonight’s speech in an adversarial frame of mine that I don’t think serves my party’s interest at all. And I can’t help wondering how many other Democrats are feeling the way I do.

I’ve had enough of the Clintons!