There are limits to what Obama and his supporters can do to achieve party unity. The onus, however, is on Hillary Clinton and her supporters.

Hyper-aggrieved Clinton partisans here tend to blog that 1) it's time for unity even if Obama won dirty, or 2) they won't give up on Hillary because Obama won dirty.

I have, on rare occasions, come to Hillary's defense and taken fire from both sides — those who read my defense of her as caving or those who read it as faux magnanimous. Mostly, I've been critical of Clinton, and none too overly generous to the likes of Otto F and Lalo.

But I'm just a guy with a computer and an opinion, and it isn't my job to cure the martyr complexes of every militant Hillary supporter. It can't, in fact, even be done from the outside. It has to be the work of Hillary the Healer.

Just as it had to be Hillary the Injured who dug into the open wounds of gender resentment in America to make 40 percent of her followers too resentful to accept any other nominee, to instigate Hillaryis44 and to echo her cries of "Den-ver, Den-ver!" at the RBC.

Yes, I understand the terrible toll of campaigns on supporters. I understand that many of Hillary's supporters are disheartened and in anguish today. I understand it is so even if don't pretend to understand why.

Because I'm still nursing the injuries Hillary inflicted on my candidate. I'm still upset that his greatest moment in the sun, his right to a victory lap, was nearly upstaged by the person who did not win the nomination. I'm angry that the Democratic Party is still held captive by the candidate who won't lead it this fall. That our core agenda and its hope of victory must defer to her agenda while she continues her ugly hobbling of Obama, a la Kathy Bates in Misery.

Oh, I'll help the party heal as best I can. I'll make respectful arguments about the stark choices that lie before us this fall. But I won't hold the hands of resentful, aggrieved hyper-partisans who still bash Obama for winning. It really wasn't his fault. It was hers for losing.