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What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Obama has shown Clinton a tremendous amount of respect, capped off by his extremely gracious acknowledgement of her candidacy in his victory speech last night.
However, the same cannot be said of Clinton. Repeatedly, she has shown him little to no respect. Obama played by the rules while exploiting weaknesses in her early campaign strategy. He won the nomination fair and square.
Frankly, I found her speech last night just this side of appalling. I cannot help but wonder if her ultimate goal isn't to dismantle the Democratic Party as it now stands and remake it with her as its spiritual leader. It would somewhat like what Reagan managed to do with the GOP after he lost the '76 nomination. And in her order to remake the Democratic Party in her own image, Clinton is trying to use triangulation tactics -- women, working-class whites and Hispanics -- to marginalize the party's African American base of support.
Her approach would amount to an utterly selfish continuation of identity politics for the sake of grabbing and holding onto power.
Bob
