Some Thoughts About Primary '08

I want to say a word or two about the Clinton campaign. Although I praise Hillary for her recently shown grace, it should be said that her campaign has some answering for. Maybe not now, maybe not even in the coming months or even this year. But I think her campaign made a lot of mistakes to say the least. Having said that, I do believe it was her campaign and not Hillary herself that made the bulk of the mistakes. Senator, you showed yourself to be quite the debater, and it can credibly said you out-debated Obama at each and every debate this year (if you can call most of what we saw on the teevee as 'debates'). But your campaign people were in off in la-la land and it was you who suffered. You yourself made some mistakes, yes, but the likes of Mark Penn et. al. have a lot to answer for the divisions they created in this country. We all need to come together and realize who our common enemy is. We need to stop fearing ourselves and the world around us. I hope you recognize this if you haven't already.

Hillary Clinton Political Suicide Watch, Day 96. AKA: How Absurd These Posts Now Seem

It's very interesting to see human psychology in action over a period of time. Even more so when it's in writing. Hillary Clinton's candidacy for POTUS is probably the model for such a thing.

After watching her concession speech yesterday I found myself in tears. I was saddened at myself for thinking (and writing) such bad things about her. How could I have gotten her so wrong? This was THE speech I was holding out for, and she delivered in spades. I owe her one hell of a debt of gratitude, for not just she has done for women but also, by doing that, what she has done for gay people everywhere.

I grappled with the thought of removing all my previous posts regarding Hillary Clinton's 'political suicide.' It sounds paradoxical to say this but that would be the cowardly thing to do. It would be dishonest and, frankly, wrong. We all go through evolutions of thought, of perception, of opinion. A lot of my posts had opinions that I have now shed. But they also had, I think, nuggets of truth. So in keeping with the spirit of honesty and truthfulness I decided to keep the posts, with all the good, bad and ugly that was in them. These were my thoughts. I had them. I cannot pretend I didn't have them. But I should not be judged solely by them.

With that I officially declare the end of said farcical political suicide of one said Hillary Clinton. She definitely is a class act to follow.