Interesting, after earlier in the week when Obama seemed to leak that we would absolutely not offer the VP-ship to Senator Clinton (but was considering a cabinet post). . .now she is willing to talk about it! Let's see what tomorrow brings.
For all the talk of the overpowering Obama juggernaut, it took him until the last vote in the last state to finally clinch enough delegates to actually win. OK. Now we begin the dismantling of John McCain.
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Jackie, who has called the Obama campaign a juggernaut? You're making that up. The story is and has always been that a freshman senator, a young black freshman senator, took on the Clinton machine and beat it. And he beat her in February. She accepted the inevitable mantle and as recently as DEC said "It will be me" and that she was in for the long haul but it would be over by Super Tuesday. And almost nobody disputed that assertion. She came into this campaign with 20-30 pt leads in all the national polls. She blew through barrels of cash in the run up to her coronation but found herself in a dead heat after Super Tuesday with no effective plan for what came next. She then saw that she had blown through so much political capital while he built a lead pledged delegates that he allowed him to call her bluff before the rules committee.
For all her righteous insistence that the SD's wait for all the votes to be counted before they weighed in she had no problem trumpeting the 100 she had queued up before a vote was cast. That was another advantage that he steadily overcame through the spring. He built a savvy and aggressive organization that disarmed the mightiest DEM political machine of the last forty years . That's one hell of a story. This campaign is historic in many more and its arc is strikingly unusual. So don't discredit it with false comparisons to typical primary seasons where a juggernaut gathers to overwhelm the field. He knew the delegate math and she didn't.
If he goes on to win the WH, and she will need to work her "heart out" for that to happen, the story of this campaign will be chiseled in stone and Bill's reputation and legacy will wilt in the glare of his triumph.
And the McCain dismantling commences. I am sure you saw Obama's reorg of how the DNC will shake the money tree. Instead of running victory laps like HRC would have done he's already changing how the game will be played in the fall.
McCain's claim for straight talk, already tarnished, is going to get chucked into the ash bin before this race is out.
Of course, we still await Her Petulance of Westchester. It would be a stunning act of party reunification if she were to acknowledge her poor form on Tuesday while attributing her change of heart to the grace he showed her from St. Paul. Not likely, but she could point out the magnificence of his campaign and its savvy and that the fairest counting of the primary vote would show him to have won on all metrics: Vote, Delegates, & States Won. She could emphasize that he has expanded the map and that all true DEMS are going to pull together to ensure an Obama presidency because there is too much at stake to risk a third Bush term. In any case she had better steer clear of her usual ambiguity.
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