Not nearly:

*Post-dinner walks are lovely opportunities for flower-picking, spying on puppies and kittens of all kinds, viewing tree stumps suspended in mid-air, and playing percussion with sticks on fenceposts. Welcome lazy summer evenings.

*While I'm overjoyed that Obama has the Democratic nomination, I worry about the Clinton backlash that seems to be brewing. Perhaps it's comes from watching the news, or reading the angry dialogue on Craigslist. Either way, we're being pulled apart at the seams as a party. I worry about the Clinton supporters who have vowed to vote McCain, or worse yet, not vote at all.

Had Clinton won the primary, you can bet that my ass would be in the booth come November voting for the first female nominee in US history. Both sides should take a deep breath and look at what they are really fighting for, and who they are fighting against.

I see posts on Craigslist from Obama supporters that are so smug and self-righteous that it makes our entire democratic process taste just a little sour. We should remember before we speak that we are, in a way, representing our representative.