I recently spoke to a friend of mine who is going to the convention as a Clinton delegate. She said that the Obama campaign is trying to keep her name(Hillary Clinton) off of the nomination list on the opening day of the Convention. As a Hillary supporter, there are 18 million of us out here, it is wrong to break with the tradition of our Democratic Convention by not allowing her name to be on the nomination list. She fought the good fight and won a substantial number of delegates. I realize that Obama will get the nomination but it does nothing to unify the party if you slight the person who came the closest. It serves no pupose and threatens to fracture our party at a time when we can ill afford to be fractured. We have a long and hard road to the White House and the DNC will need Hillary supporters to be as passionate about supporting Obama as we were in our support for her. I never spoke ill of Obama while those two fought for the nomination. Since he has won enough delegates to get the nomination I have defended him on blogs, political boards, newspapers and in person. I want a democrat  in the WH in 2009. I have a son who is serving his third tour in Iraq so I know firsthand the hard ships that military families and our troops have experienced for the last six years.