Can we ever move on from the past or is this nation doomed to tread water and let the future sail away beyond the horizon?   This week Hillary Clinton stepped out of the shadows to reclaim the media spot light when some of her supporters began to push for Hillary’s nomination. Hillary, for her part, has played all sides of the  issue, one day saying all options are still viable and a catharsis was needed and the next day saying she’s 100% behind Barack. A few weeks ago her campaign swore off any notion of her being nominated, bu t doubts have been raised this week, mainly thanks to the media salivating over a possible Round 2 in the Barack vs Hillary poli-match.   I’m sure her supporters are also quite excited to have even the vaguest chance of an upset…but…   … I'm also not sure why her supporters don't want to respect the rules of the DNC.   There’s murmurings that they want those disputed Florida and Michigan delegates seated and if so, then maybe Hillary pulls a win somehow. This whole Michigan and Florida nonsense is well...nonsense. They broke the rules, Clinton maneuvered herself&nb sp; to benefit and broke her own word about honoring the DNC's decision. A pattern of convenience that seems to be re-emerging.   It's bad enough McCain is using Hillary's own words against Obama and probably scoring some points with her supporters - now she has to play coy? If for some odd reason there is some dramatic reversal at the convention there will be no more Democratic party. There will be a split. The fall race will be a three person race and Obama will still win.   And Hillary's career will be over , and she won’t be alone in the unemployment line.   Or at least that's the doomsday scenario. Only the convention will let us know what will really happen.   I just hope Hillary supporters understand that this has nothing to do with gender and there are plenty of other qualified women who SHOULD have run.   Hillary Clinton is just not qualified to run this nation based on how she ran her campaign and based on her behavior during it, let alone her checkered past filled with resentments and controversies.   Clinton insulted foreign leaders, fanning the flames of our enemy (calling Putin soul-less does not help), she refused to disavow and in fact seemed to support the rumors falsely being spread about Obama, she exaggerated her stories and experience calling into question her veracity of character. Not to mention she's in debt up to her head after having run a negative campaign both in tone and in finance.   Pelosi, Rice and a whole host of other women deserve it more and would do it better - despite any of their own mistakes. (although Pelosi lately has been rather feisty and less then helpful)   The point is, anytime the Clinton’s materialize this cloud of resentment and anger follows them like some Peanuts cartoon. They’re angry. Yes. We get it. Bill is upset with how George has ruined the country and Hillary seems to think she was supposed to be the first female president. I get it. They miss the 90’s. I get it!   But I don’t miss those roaring 90’s.   The 90’s folks were not so great for a great many of us. Yes the economy was booming, but that had little to nothing to do with Bill Clinton and everything to do with the natural progression of technology. The internet boom in the late 90’s propelled our economy through the roof, only, as we all saw, it was a temporary boost . (as with all new things)   But we also ignored Al Queda’s growth in the 1990’s, not taking it seriously. There was the first World Trade Center Bombing, a warning sign we ignored. We entered Bosnia far too late and didn’t finish with Saddam (why was there no trial for him back then?). And let’s not get into Somalia.   The point is –it wasn’t all rainbows and sunshine. We were drifting. Wading in a sea of potential, but the wind had died down, distracted by the nonsense of the Lewinsky affair and the impeachment that followed.   I was speaking with an Obama supporter recently and they were expressing to me how much work it’s been these past few weeks to get the Clinton supporters to back Barack and prepare for the convention. The frustration I felt from this Obama supporter was not one of anger or negativity, but of sadness. A sadness that comes from seeing a potential great shift in the U.S. slipping away – allowing the dream of once again being the land of promise and opportunity fade into the morning mist.   Let’s hope the lantern stays lit and we can find our way safely back to the shore and return to rebuilding this nation into the example it once was.