I always liked the Tom Lehrer lyric that went

We are the folk song army

Everyone one of us cares

We all hate poverty

War and injustice

Unlike the rest of you squares

Somehow I'm unpleasantly reminded of it by the ever popular insult war  between the Dagblog Sander-rites and Hillary-ites.

It's perfectly easy to hope she'll get nominated and -cross your fingers-elected without attacking Bernie's Senate record. Fairness doesn't come in to it "It's not fair that Bernie hasn't endorses her the way she did Obama".  Bernie ran ,for example, ran  on ending the excessive influence of big contributors on democratic candidates. What's to disagree? Should he now stop saying that because he lost the primaries? 

Hillary ,conversely, spent more than 10 years of her life working for "Save the Children"  And Madeline Wright Edelman as is sometimes claimed has not disavowed Hillary and  those efforts. You can look it up.

But if, for the time being , the Bernie-ites are not willing to give her credit where credit is due,so be it.

We don't want their love we want their votes. To the best of my knowledge no supporter of a losing  candidate  has ever been convinced to change sides by being insulted.

The official figures showed Gore losing Florida by 500 votes and that may well  be an overstatement. On November 8 Eric, and Sync and Hal will have a vote apiece.  We  want those votes. More than that,  we may need them. Let's stop shouting at them. They hate poverty , war and injustice , like the rest of us squares.