More reflections
I don’t pretend to understand Hillary Clinton’s motivation for being stubborn about endorsing Obama. I don’t claim to know why she doesn’t take the dignified approach.
But all of this hand-wringing over it is ridiculous. She has her reasons and she has her supporters. She has a right to do this thing as she pleases - a right she has earned in the last 16 years. The end result is the same, and I’m not going to get myself in a tizzy because she handles it differently than I think I would.
Her staying in hasn’t caused the sky to fall, and the chicken littles in our party haven’t convinced me that it’s going to come crashing down if she stays in until August. Obama has all the room he needs without her endorsement.
On the other hand, I don’t like the truthiness or the implications in her claims to have won the popular vote. It’s a bad message and effectively a lie that undermines the nominee. But if Barack Obama can’t counter that effectively, he doesn’t deserve to be our nominee, or the POTUS. I don’t like the counterproductive attitudes of some *cough*Gerladine Ferraro*cough* of her supporters, but if those lesser lights are going to outshine the nominee, we have no hope to begin with.
And Mark Penn doesn’t deserve to call himself a Democrat. He fits in better with the Alberto Gonzales wing of the GOP. But who cares?! He’s not on the nominee’s staff. He hasn’t the nominee’s ear. He is nothing.
So, there’s that.
