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She is not facing anything she expected, or for that matter anything that any of the smart rats expected. Obama is the surfer-boy riding the waves of hope in a nation that has had hope squeezed out of them. While he can take credit, it ain't sci-fi.
It's so odd that Hillary does well with the working folks, but not her own. Is it because her competitors haven't yet been successful enough to hold her trade votes against her? Maybe it's just because they aren't smart enough to catch the wave, which is not to say I hope they won't in the general election.
At least, those who have seen what the media can do can be thankful they aren't throwing pot shots at her as much as when she was the frontrunner. (Dowd was an exception again this week. Her hatred is palpable.) It's not sour grapes; it's a fact I documented probably a dozen times so far. I didn't start out with that view. If Obama gets any health care reform enacted at all I will be surprised.
So she sits there proud as a peacock. I wouldn't use the word defiant. She is the first woman who got this far running for the presidency of the United States--who proved her competency and her steadfastness through one of the most lengthy and intense campaigns in the nation's history. It sounds like the next generation isn't even going to give her credit for that.
She leaves no doubt for those who saw past the peanut butter that she will be just as proud if she experiences defeat as if she experiences victory.
I think this is how leaders are supposed to act. If nothing else she will leave that model. I strongly doubt if she will do a sniveling Nixon. If we are defined by our enemies, she and her husband haven't done that bad a job. Certainly, it makes any other attitude but pride out of the question.
