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There is indeed something poignant about the subsumed Clinton campaign, when one considers the crucible in which Mrs. Clinton was formed.
How quickly we forget the Savonarola zeal of Kenneth Starr in pursuing President Clinton's private carnality; the relentless Whitewater persecutioin that yielded nothing, the fickleness of memory that overlooks years of fiscal solvency and unprecedented growth.
But for all that, there no is the inescapable feeling that her time has passed.
Mr. Obama rekindles the light extinguished by Dr. King's assassination.
For me, a child of colour who lived under American apartheid (Nashville, 1963-64) and whose political awakening came in the 1960s, Mr. Obama's ascent is a stirring and incandescent moment in history.
I cannot vote in your election -- I am a proud Canadian -- yet it moves me deeply to see how a capable and dedicated leader like Mrs. Clinton can come so close yet fall short. There ought to be no schadenfreude, nor any unseemly triumphalism.
Politics is a harsh oblivion, but surely there can be a dignified exist as the inevitability of Mr. Obama's nomination looms; and a full measure of honour for the remarkable service the Clintons gave America -- and would continue to, in the Senate.
