Two Views of the Campaign

Here is the beginning of my post.

Fascinating. Dick Morris, well known as a brilliant political strategist AND a Hillary hater, lays out the moral case for her stepping down. In essence, he sees no path t a Hillary victory that does not require her "muscleing" Obama out of the nominations and, therefore, feeding McCain an amazing opportunity to create a new repubican allinace out of the disenchanted.

Then comes Tina Brown. A FOB and imbed on the Clinton plane. Here superb essay ends up being a paen for vaginal politics. Women have foiught for this and Hillary must be OUR champion,

My reaction is that Ms. Brown has hit in why I support BHO. I am NOT ijnterested ion voting for hilalry's genitalia or Barack's skin. I respect both people's history but it is very different to build FROM diversity than t rely on it.

And here is the rest of it.

DICK MORRIS

It’s over

By Dick Morris

Posted: 03/06/08 06:02 PM [ET]

The real message of Tuesday’s primaries is not that Hillary won. It’s that she didn’t win by enough. The race is over. The results are already clear. Obama will go to the Democratic Convention with a lead of between 100 and 200 elected delegates. The remaining question is: What will the superdelegates do then? But is that really a question? Will the leaders of the Democratic Party be complicit in its destruction? Will they really kindle a civil war by denying the nomination to the man who won the most elected delegates? No way. They well understand that to do so would be to throw away the party’s chances of victory and to stigmatize it among African-Americans and young people for the rest of their lives. The Democratic Party took 20 years to recover from the traumas of 1968 and it is not about to trigger a similar bloodletting this year. Tina Brown The press will always feel Hillary's fierce, historic mistrust—and who can blame her? ABC's Kate Snow tells me that members of the public often bear down on her when they see her TV mike, cursing her out as a stand-in for Tim Russert, even though he is at NBC. "They feel we're the people taking her down," she said. Perhaps this explains the Clinton advance team's puzzling decision, discovered when we arrived in Austin, Texas, on Monday afternoon, to have the press file from a men's locker room. Laptops were set up cheek by jowl with a wall of urinals, prompting raucous cries of: "Now we really know this campaign is in the toilet!" Reporters were supposed to view Hillary's electronic town hall with 800 Texas voters on an overhead TV monitor via Fox Sports Southwest—a curious choice of outlet based, apparently, on the cheapness of the media buy. (Or maybe it was a cunning strategy to alienate male voters expecting a Houston Astros spring-training game.) ...... Even Oprah abandoned them when she opted for Obama. Am I alone in suspecting that TV's most powerful 54-year-old woman just might have endorsed him so fast for reasons of desirable viewer demographics as much as personal inspiration? Certainly, no TV diva in her 50s who values her ratings wants to be defined by the hot-flash cohort. What saddens boomer women who love Hillary is that their twentysomething daughters don't share their view of her heroic role. Instead they've been swept up by that new Barack magic. It's not their fault, and not Hillary's, either. The very scar tissue that older women see as proof of her determination just embarrasses their daughters, killing off for them all the insouciant elation that ought to come with girl power in the White House. She might have a chance of winning them over yet, if she set about dividing the Obama girls from the Obama boys. Maybe start with some mother and daughter rallies in Pennsylvania, summoning an audience that would mirror the winning image of Chelsea onstage at her side on Tuesday night in Ohio. It was hard not to be caught up in the euphoria at the Columbus Athenaeum when her primary results started to come in. I found myself jammed between two exultant Columbus ladies, a high-fiving yoga-studio owner in her 50s and a human resources director of a software company roughly the same age. They were raising the roof along with the band to the old 1965 McCoys hit "Hang on Sloopy." For all the invisible women, it's the only anthem they've got. And for their sake alone, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton should not give up the fight.