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Today, I read this article in the Wall Street Journal discussing the question of whether or not Democrats should let Hillary Clinton’s delegates vote at the convention. My first response to seeing the title was to keep scrolling down the page (I read it online, not in paper format). When I went back up to the top of the page, I read the one sentence summary (the proper term may be leader, but you know what I mean either way) of the article, “As [Hillary Clinton's] campaign closes, Democrats must decide whether to put her name into nomination at the convention.”

Now, When I read this summary, I believe my exact words were, “Who cares!”

Apparently, many Hillary supporters are going to be pissed off if Hillary’s delegates don’t get to vote at the convention. However, if they do vote, it will give angry Hillary supporters an opening to make a scene protesting, show a lack of party unity, and the apocalyptic election outcome of John McCain becoming president of the United States will occur. Oh boy! Decisions, decisions. What should we do?

Perhaps my advice is a little jaded by how annoyed all of this kerfuffle makes me. It’s very simple. Whatever happens, DEAL WITH IT! If Hillary’s delegates vote, don’t act surprised when she gets the amount of delegates that she won in the primaries. Everyone knows the primary was close. It shouldn’t be news when that fact is officially demonstrated. If her delegates don’t vote, then no whining Hillary supporters. She gave a hard fought campaign and bowed out. Barack Obama has been accepted as the party nominee. She doesn’t need confirmation that this primary was close, nor do any of her supporters. Everyone already knows that. Besides, there’s nothing wrong with showing some party untiy and making sure that the convention is the rah-rah event that it is supposed to be.

I feel it’s important to note here that Hillary Clinton surely will at least issue a press release discussing what will happen at the convention. Either way, she will repeat that party unity is important and will make it clear that she does not want anything unpleasant to occur at the convention. This will be sufficient to keep people in line.

I feel that I contained myself pretty well during the primary season of not letting myself get overly annoyed when the media would spend a day talking about how Barack Obama got a B- on his sixth grade english test or how Hillary Clinton misspelled a word at 2:03 pm on a Tuesday 20 years ago. There was some rather inane coverage during the primary season, and many inane controversies were constructed, but for inane controversies, this takes the cake. Either way, the Democratic party has no reason to worry. There is no reasonable cause for concern with the situation. The Wall Street Journal had no reason to print a story about this. Hopefully nobody repeats the mistake.