Delegates Released

Jeffrey Dinowitz on how he felt when his candidate, Sen. Hillary Clinton, released her delegates — him included — to vote for Sen. Barack Obama, if they wished, when it came time to name their constituents' choices for the Democratic nominee to the presidency:

At about 2 pm. Denver time Hillary released her delegates in advance of tonight's roll call. It's pretty hard to accept, but it's also time to move on. As she clearly demonstrated last night, she again spoke of the crucial reasons why we must elect Obama. She again showed her extraordinary grace and strength and again showed why she would have been a great president and is a public official without equal.

My vote at the convention is for Hillary Clinton. That is what I was overwhelmingly elected to do. That is what I want to do. And I will campaign hard for Barack Obama. As Kara, Eric and I walked from the Hillary delegates meeting back to the hotel we passed some of the right-wing extremist anti-abortion radicals, again demonstrating the need to make sure that John McCain is never in a position to appoint anyone to the United States Supreme Court.