I know, but do you really think that the Clinton campaign will actually live up to some dramatic shift in her position?  I can see them giving John some position if he backs off and compromises.  But a real concession with real action, I wouldn't trust it from anyone.  Maybe I'm wrong.  Are there any example of people receiving real action by Convention trade-offs?  

at the very least his big mistake was allowing this invitation to make these comparisions. and there in lies why i am not leaning clinton. i at least respect her political smarts.

Yes, lets have some intellectual honesty. Barack did not just say that Reagan Change the trajectory. Look at the quote:

"I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. I think they felt like with all the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and government had grown and grown but there wasn't much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating. I think people, he just tapped into what people were already feeling, which was we want clarity we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing."   

The excesses and growth of the government were what the Democrats did. It was Medicare, Civil Rights, Progressive taxation, Government Regulation of the economy. Calling them excesses is  Republican language. Most Democrats didn't think they went far enough. And the Optimism was against the honest soul searching that Americans had after Vietnam and Watergate of our place in the world. And lets not forget that Reagan's rose colored glasses made those suffering from aids invisible.