A (Potentially Premature) Defense of Clinton - The Washington Note - The Diigo Meta page

• 27 Aug 08
  

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  • I really didn't like the video tribute to Hillary Clinton that was aired tonight. It was all about Hillary Clinton, the woman candidate -- which does Hillary Clinton, the brilliant policymaker and effective advocate, a great disservice. With due respect to the filmmakers and those who were legitimately moved by it (there are surely many), if the video had a tagline, it might read, "pretty good, for a girl."
  • no one should fault Clinton for failing to give Obama the plaudits that she never gave herself. Clinton is a Democratic partisan, for better or for worse. Her rhetoric has always been focused on winning political battles, not on the unique gifts of any individual political candidate. In that light, hers was a gracious and unifying speech -- at least within the Democratic Party. It's unfair to think, as I instinctively did, that she might talk at length Barack Obama or Joe Biden and their virtues. She's not about to change her stripes. If there are others that had the same instinct, I hope they come around.

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