Reply #26: Reasons why Obama should be grateful [View All]

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-for the most part- for the long contest. Media attention allows him to show more and more his presidential qualities to a public that would have been unaware and even more receptive to long GOP spin. The enormous publicity and primary state organization building gains go far beyond anything he has spent. He has been thoroughly tested and come out as an excellent smart candidate. In retrospect he has always been ahead and winning against a begrudging but losing big name big base big experience rival. She has made it very easy to pick someone else as VP and divided up her voting block and party sympathizers from Convention competition. The long contest has helped boost Bill Richardson, the most likely good choice for Veep. It has defined the Clinton perspective in the whole party, as polarizing as it has been, into the past(that is really breathtaking when you consider where we were months ago).

However she wishes to end this service to the Obama campaign, this process looking back will be seen as a positive struggle in the party. No flaw was unspared, no state was ignored or rendered meaningless. The voters laid siege to the party. Of course their are mammoth negatives, the biggest being the misdirected nature of this election away from terrible truths and progressive needs. That the flaws were revealed, including the GOP interfering and making fools of Dems, does not mean they are resolved. Yet Hillary, like Bill has unintentionally done her best to draw the flaws into her defeat and help bring down the GOP in essence, in perception, in tactics. Any campaign crossing the line might be seen as a redemptive providence, if we keep our sights on the future rather than the past. It is this if we make it so.