Now that she's clearly toast (knock on wood, assuming no Wag the Dog-esque tactics before OH and TX), I'm starting to feel a little bad for the Hill.
She doesn't seem to know what to do with herself in the underdog position, as her campaign strategy was always "I'm going to be the nominee, so you should nominate me, peeps!" She's clearly an extremely intelligent woman with tons of baggage, a liability spouse, and some slower-than-molasses-to-react campaign managers. Despite that, she's the first serious, (somewhat) viable woman candidate for president, and she deserves some respect - if it weren't for Bill and her record of hawkishness on Iraq, I think she could have been great.
But I'd really like the first woman president to be a kick-ass woman who doesn't need to count her years playing second-fiddle to her husband as "experience," someone who didn't settle and wait for her turn at bat, you know? A liberal Condoleeza Rice, you know? PhD, take-no-prisoners, don't-need-a-man Condi (minus the whole crazy-ass Republican thing) is my kind of lady. So, let's have some Barack, and then in 8 years, elect Liberal Condi.
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So far by my count Hillary's been in charge of 2 things in her political life: health care reform and this campaign. Miserable failures, both.
Obama may have little experience, but 0-for-0 is better than 0-for-2.
Emma -- I read about half of Obama's first book about his father/life last weekend -- the part about community organizing was quite vivid, and I could relate to a lot of it. Emma, I bet your parents would even more. I also found the part about Africa and discovering his dad interesting and insightful. The guy has a core of real human concern and has acted on it and exposed it to the public, years before he got all calculating like they have to get to some degree. I don't think Hillary has ever done that, and it diminishes her stature, and makes people nervous who want to like her. I remember spending a half an hour at Borders going through Bill Clinton's recent autobiography, initially wanting to buy it, but it was such a one-dimensional snooze I couldn't bring myself to get one. Not a real word about Lewinsky et al. We saw Bob Wise in DC last weekend and he seemed to be doing real well. Life is funny!
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