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I don't know what to make of that interview, Mr. Shapiro. Has Salon already sided with Clinton? I kind of feel like it has.
Several words are repeated in that interview, like mantras, campaign hitching posts -- experience, understanding, inherit -- and I don't know when she says...
my experience gives me an edge -- that I understand the challenges we're going to face and that I will be able to marshal the resources in order to begin addressing them from Day One.
...if that's really true. Her experience sure didn't help her understand the challenges the Bush League imposed on the Democrats and the country at large. She was as outflanked as the rest of the DLC.
I didn't get a sense of much information being conveyed in that interview, unfortunately. The Clinton lovers will cheer, and the Hillary haters will hiss, but the candidate herself doesn't appear to be saying much. That's too bad.
As for the "Hillary" versus "Clinton" line, I'm well aware of that; hell, I noticed when Saddam Hussein was invariably called "Saddam" in the press, like a pat on the head -- Hitler was Hitler, Stalin was Stalin, but Saddam, well, he was Saddam (and I don't think they were worried about confusing him with the King of Jordan). Maybe we should just start calling Cheney "Dick" -- people will know who we're talking about, now that Nixon's long dead.
