Comments on: Why Clinton Lost http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=3381 Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:22:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: LooseKannon http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=3381&cpage=1#comment-203229 LooseKannon Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:18:17 +0000 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=3381#comment-203229 If I was Mrs. Clinton, I’d have known (which I’m guessing she did) that there were lines in my D.C. congratulatory speech to Senator Obama that would be booed by my hardcore supporters, who are still licking their wounds. I would have addressed them right then and there (which she didn’t). If you’re trying to unify a party and a people, you take advantage of a teaching moment like that. Her choosing not to take on the malcontents, who must be turned into Obama allies in order to attain her self-proclaimed goal of having a Dem take back the White House in ‘09, was unfortunate and perhaps telling. A stern “get over and past it or suffer the consequences of four more years of national decay” would have endeared her to the party and eventually to the nation. It also would have endeared her to the committee vetting possible running mates. If I was Mrs. Clinton, I’d have known (which I’m guessing she did) that there were lines in my D.C. congratulatory speech to Senator Obama that would be booed by my hardcore supporters, who are still licking their wounds.

I would have addressed them right then and there (which she didn’t). If you’re trying to unify a party and a people, you take advantage of a teaching moment like that. Her choosing not to take on the malcontents, who must be turned into Obama allies in order to attain her self-proclaimed goal of having a Dem take back the White House in ‘09, was unfortunate and perhaps telling.

A stern “get over and past it or suffer the consequences of four more years of national decay” would have endeared her to the party and eventually to the nation. It also would have endeared her to the committee vetting possible running mates.

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