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• Wednesday, February 6, 2008 11:02 AM

  Expectations

  Traister's article, while interesting, engages in the same level of fudging that she seems to be accusing the mainstream media of doing. The fact of the matter is, Obama won all of the states he was supposed to, plus a couple (MO, CT, MN) that she was leading in the polls right up until yesterday. The only reason that this can be considered a win on any level for Clinton is because the chattering class talked about some sort of tidal wave. It's a very close race, and at this point Obama has a slight edge because of lead he has in the states that vote in the next couple of weeks and the money he's got. Staving off defeat is not a decisive victory for HRC.

  As for the posters, the experience argument is tired. Clinton wants to have it both ways. She wants to claim her husband's years in the White House as experience, but she wants to "run on (her) own record." If those years constitue relevant experience, she should release her papers from that time so that we can know what she was doing. At the moment, the one thing that we know for sure is that the "Day One President" almost submarined her hsuband's first term with her botching of health care. If she contributed widely to anything productive, she ought to have those papers released. Otherwise, her only relevant experience in governing is 7 years in the Senate to his 3.

  Finally, the people talking about the young, arrogant Obama seem to have no idea how representative they are of a generation whose time in power is slipping behind the horizon.

  —bluechicago Read bluechicago's other letters
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