She isn't delusional. She is basically trying to do as much damage as possible so she can quickly reload for a run in 2012 against McCain. She has consistantly been the best GOP attacker and has succeeded in running a variation of the Nixon southern strategy in order to poison the well.

Ego ego ego

It struck me as the minimum amount of praise needed to say she did it sandwiched in "Hey look a me, I'm great."

The fact was she came in as the favorite and the party choice and yet lost to a guy who ran a HELL of a campaign, opened new doors, and grew the party. Why no props?

The fact is she will star in GOP campaign ads all through November. Obama never jumped on the Bosnia thing or the hard working white thing or really any attack other then her vote. If she fell on her sword a bit more it defuses this attack we'll see in the fall. She did not.

The fact is the ugly ugly ugly specter of racism was stoked by her for her gain. The idea of advancing a cause by those sort of means is wrong. She can't come right and say that she did that but at least an ode to "how things got out of hand" would have been nice.

To me Hillary was still playing to keep the party aligned so she can be the nominee in 2012 which means she wants Obama to lose.

To me that is unacceptable.

I'm sorry but I wonder if there is an element of Ageism at play here?

Can it be that Clinton supporters are upset that this young "kid" and his supporters (also "kids") took something that was theirs in a FASHION that they had assumed was the right of the baby boomer?

After all Hillary's is the generation that rioted in Chicago. They marched against Vietnam. They were supposed to be the insurgency.

To see themselves upsurped, outflanked, and above all out "grassrooted" (for lack of a better word) by someone has to be hard.

Lastly I think what may be particularly irritating is that the insurgency doesn't see their issue as an issue. The insurgency sees history in the way it rose up and to them the standard bearer is a action vs an icon of race or gender. Don't get me wrong, you'd have to be an idiot not to see the significance of Obama's race but to me it is notable for it not being notable. I think for Hilary' supporter her gender is notable.

That said I think this view of Obama as post racial vs Hilary as first wave feminism splits on age lines. The vitriol you often hear from Hilary supporters must be what it was like when their parent's raged about the "Long airs" and shook their head at the Beatles and the Stones.

....and sure enough Joan finds a new way to lead the story back to how Ms Clinton.

I'll give her credit, she did bury the anti Obama dig way down in the story, there is hope.

I'm just worried that this constant need to recast the story...

(Yes Recast...let's not forget Ms Clinton's swipes at the Mr Obama failing to meet the commander and chief test, or her use of Rev Wright, or....)

...I'm just worried this need to recast the story diminishes the guy who won fair and square and also distracts and divides when the time has arrived to unite and defeat the GOP.