Forgiveness is one of the hardest things to do, at least for me. I hold a grudge, but I also only hold a grudge for those things that a truly hurtful. For me, that means saying/promoting things about my character that are absolutely not true. What irks me more is when those saying as much, know their allegations to be false.

I have been supporting my girl Hillary, in a `hardcore' sense since about the first week of January or so. She has always been a strong woman in my mind, but the grace and dignity with which she has weathered this campaign... it is amazing.

It was about then that race-baiting allegations began to fly- from everywhere and everyone, based on nothing by slight association and Hillary's audacity to speak honestly about the shared purpose of MLK and LBJ, their will and their dreams. The conspiracy theorists were out in force- my personal favorite, was the early march climax, where bloggers were posting wonderful things such as:

Clinton campaign making Obama "blacker"

I cannot even begin to describe the disgust that I felt when I saw as much coming from the progressive blogosphere, especially because I knew that every single blogger or pundit with any brains at all, knew it not to be true.

Ask yourselves:

What candidate, running in THIS Democratic Primary, would serve to benefit from race-baiting against their opponent?

Any good political analyst, a great many bloggers included, would certainly know the answer to the above question. They would know that it would be political suicide for Hillary Clinton, in THIS campaign, in THIS age, in THIS environment to race-bait the best black political candidate this country has ever seen on the national stage.

We know the outcome- it certainly wasn't Hillary Clinton who benefited. With Hillary Clinton's campaign effectively labeled as a race-baiting one, Obama solidified his support amongst the uber PC liberal crowd and siphoned off any semblance of support amongst African Americans that Clinton had up unto the moment. Obama benefited.

When I was just a wee little boy, my father used to always tell me, especially when I would make something up to get out of trouble, that you could always find the answer by finding the shortest distance between two points. It also happens to be the quickest way to get somewhere. The concept is simple and it has stuck with me.

I think what bothers me the most about this whole disgusting affair, is the cynical exploitation of a patent lie. Not just by the Obama campaign and its surrogates, but by the so called progressives- particularly here on the tubes, that I am certain know better. It is disappointing.

I imagine that when this is all spun out and we have our nominee (obviously Clinton at this point), Hillary will be forgiving and bring us all back together. It will probably be one of the hardest forgivings that she has ever had to give, but she will do it for the party and the country.

As for me? I am still thinking about it.... I will probably get there, sometime before the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November.