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As an orator, Hillary's no JFK, Reagan or Obama. It was still a good speech.
But why, o why couldn't she have acknowledged that nobody stole the nomination from her. If only she could have brought herself to say: "Sen. Obama beat me, fair and square."
Judging by Internet comments from her supporters, there remains much resentment that Obama, the party and/or the media conspired to take away the prize that was rightfully hers.
We will never know how Hillary Clinton would have fared in November, just as we'll never know how John McCain or Bill Bradley would have matched up in 2000 (or RFK and Mitt Romney's dad in 1968). That's politics, and the Clintons have been playing this game for a long time.
