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I know I shouldn’t get caught up in this stuff … it’s all orchestrated, it’s all just pageantry, it’s all just backroom deals and handshake agreements that will somehow end up hurting us or the party or something … and yet, I have to say that watching the roll call vote today gave me goosebumps.

It’s been a while since there’s been a roll call with more than one nominee but I don’t think allowing it to happen hurt anything.  I think it went a long way to acknowledging that Hillary did indeed put up a good fight and deserved the votes she got (even if the 18 million is a fuzzy math number).  And to have her call for the cessation of the roll call and instead nominate Obama by acclamation was pretty impressive theatre.

And I have to think that this is a moment that will never again be in my lifetime.  Oh sure, there will be another female candidate for president (and this time she might get the nomination) and there will be another African-American candidate for president — maybe even at the same time again — and the next time the positions might be reversed.   But these … these were the first.

And I was here.  I saw it. I witnessed it.  It really happened.