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...Clinton seemed as deluded by the Greek chorus as she'd been inspired by it. After all, Barack Obama had been hearing from the very same sorts of people all year. And if he had not been as successful in gaining the support of working-class Caucasians, that had been as much a consequence of their prejudices as it was of his Ivy-cool mien. His army of young idealists, the brilliant organizers who had built his campaign from the ground up in Iowa and elsewhere, had won this nomination fair and square, and his nervously proud African-American supporters...
...Taken together, the Democratic Party that Clinton and Obama have assembled would make quite an army: Franklin Roosevelt's working people plus John Kennedy's college-educated young people and civil rights marchers. It is a coalition that seems to assemble only in bad times, goaded by economic depressions, social-justice crusades or ill-advised wars. This year, with more than 80% of the public thinking the country is moving in the wrong direction and even the presumed Republican nominee, John McCain, acknowledging the national jitters, the Democratic army seems poised to come together again. The sad reality is, though...
...Which is why Clinton's ungracious and solipsistic speech on the night of Obama's triumph was so disappointing. She acknowledged Obama briefly, as a candidate but not as the nominee, then proceeded to a paean to her working-class supporters ... and to herself. "In the millions of quiet moments, in thousands of places, you asked yourself a simple question: Who will be the strongest candidate and the strongest President?" she said, and then repeated the dubious claim that she had "won" the popular vote. She may have considered this the opening salvo in a tough round of negotiation with...
...days before this graceless d?nouement, Clinton's inner circle seemed split about how to proceed. Those closest to the candidate were bitter and had taken to rehearsing small grievances distorted by the campaign echo chamber - that Obama's aides had exploited Clinton's gaffe when she inappropriately raised the specter of Robert Kennedy's assassination, that Obama hadn't defended Clinton sufficiently after the disgraceful attack by Father Michael Pfleger from the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ, that the Obama campaign had played too rough in the Democratic Rules Committee battle, which granted the disputed Michigan and Florida...
...would be wise for Obama to grant her that conceit, up to a point. She, more than he, has the power to unite or destroy the party. The question for Clinton is, How does she go about cashing in her chips? By forcing a tough, immediate negotiation with Obama over the vice presidency and other issues or by making an immediate show of her desire to strengthen Obama for the coming fray? A number of Clinton's top advisers, especially in the finance and policy realms, thought Clinton's best course of action was to make herself immediately indispensable: offer...