by Jon Robin Baitz [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

Obama, riven with quiet anger, stood there, and with certitude said "enough is enough." Still, you can see how painful it is for Obama -- how it goes against his intrinsic sense of loyalty and history -- to finally jettison the mad Reverend Wright.

by Jon Robin Baitz [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

Those of us who look at the Clintons and see the full dimensions of the failure of their promise to America will feel some sense of loss when Hillary withdraws. She shied away from greatness, so as to hold on to power.

by Jon Robin Baitz [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

If you keep MSNBC on, as the day goes on, you start to feel insane because the same stuff is rehashed in a sisyphusian cacophony from dawn to midnight, with some breaks for shows about prisoners and their tattoos.

by Jon Robin Baitz [courtesy of Politics on HuffingtonPost.com]

Underneath the stomach-turning Clintonian strategy for winning the nomination are little passion plays playing out -- about the state of the nation, and the state of its soul-sick psyche.