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In response to Patricia.... the concept of Hillary supporters somehow pouting about the loss of Hillary to gain the nomination or even the second slot betrays the core challenge the party now faces.... it is time for those of us who supported HIllary to recognize that she ran a brilliant, but also-ran campaign, and throw our energy, money and vote to the team that can.
I supported Hillary for president because I believe that she would have been a workhorse president, a policy wonk and an efficient, even brilliant, administrator and policy setter... with a capability of surrounding herselves with a cadre of equally brilliant folks.
She lost, and lost with a campaign that bordered, not to far, from nasty politicking. Following the revalations of the malignant efforts of an utterly pragmatic and utterly ineffective management team, it is not surprising that Obama did not seriously consider her, particluarly with her sulky husband lurking as a politico power in the background....
it is now time for those of us who believed in Hillary to step up to the plate, recognize that she lost, tell her husband to behave himself like a former president and stop sulking like a pouty ten year old denied gummy bears in the grocery store, and take this opportunity to support a ticket.
Becuase of my support for Hillary, and my belief in her, I became a "default" supporter of Obama, primarily because the process of supporting McCain is odious in the extreme. With the selection of Biden, Obama has a running mate that is equally brilliant, a formidable speaker in a different vein, and a man who can truly support the visionary thinking of Obama. Now, I am truly on board.
Hillary's role? She could do far worse than to truly inheret the mantle of Danial Monynahan, whose vaunted seat she won, legitimately, via a combination of brains and grit. There are worse fates in history, to say the least..... she could run again, in eight years......
As for Bill, I hope he gives a brilliantly supporting speech for the Obama/Biden ticket at the convention, or I will just assume that he has become a spoiled jet-setter, dablling, not in the real issues that impact our daily lives, but keeping himself occupied while fleshing out the family exchecquer with vast fees for speaking.
The stakes are high this year.... and, whilst sad about Hillary's sequence of pathetic campaign management decisions that led to her faltering in what should have been a stomp, it is time to move on.
