I can really appreciate a never-say-die attitude in sports, or in politics, or whatever. But the thing is, in order to leave it all on the field, you have to leave the field. Obama is now the nominee of the Democratic Party, the credentialing committee has met and made a decision on Michigan and Florida, there are no more primaries to go, the superdelegates have declared their intentions, nothing is left up in the air, CNN and MSNBC have called the nomination for Obama, and Terry McAuliffe just introduced Hillary Clinton as “the next President of the United States.”
She then delivered a speech in which she had absolutely nothing nice to say about Barack Obama, her own party’s nominee. Instead she talked about what a great leader she is and said, “No decisions tonight.” On the other hand, in the leaked copies of Obama’s acceptance speech tonight, he spends about three paragraphs complimenting Hillary Clinton.
The Clinton campaign is now in Crazytown. It was fine not to give up until the bitter end, but it’s over now.
Breaking the glass ceiling is important, but Hillary Clinton herself is even more important!
She’s working her way into complete and total irrelevance. Who will ever respect her again? Sometimes campaigns run afoul. Chappaquiddick can be explained away by personal weakness, and I think a lot of us on some level can relate to that, and still respect Ted Kennedy. The same for Monkey Business. McGovern was too unfriendly and supposedly too liberal, but you can still respect the guy. But Hillary Clinton has now had a complete and total break with reality, and she’s chewing apart her own party in the process of denying what’s obvious to everybody else. How do you politically come back from that?
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