The New York Times gives sort of an assessment of Hillary's performance.
The Long Road to a Clinton Exit
Although Mrs. Clinton proved a more agile candidate than many had expected, she built a campaign that was suffused in
overconfidence, riven by acrimony and weighted by the emotional baggage of a marriage between former and would-be presidents.
And as they tried to master a new political era, the Clintons demanded loyalty from those who once surrounded them and felt betrayed by people they assumed would be with them again.
“What hurt them was their sense of
entitlement that the presidency was theirs and all the acolytes should fall in line,” said Gov.
Bill Richardson of New Mexico, a former Clinton cabinet officer who endorsed Mr. Obama only to be branded a Judas. “Instead of accepting it, they turned on the acolytes. It was their
war room mentality, to attack when something doesn’t go their way, and it just reminded me of the old days.”
Just as they did in 1992,
the Clintons were offering two for the price of one. As Mr. Clinton surveyed the field, he
could not quite believe that an upstart, inexperienced senator from Illinois could be a serious alternative to such an accomplished figure as his wife.
....talking in early meetings about her need to spark a “movement” and
dismissing Mr. Obama as a glamorous personality who would not connect with working-class voters the way she could, campaign officials said.
“He may be the J.F.K. in the race,” Mr. Penn told Mrs. Clinton last year, according to an insider, “but you are the Bobby.”
As for
Mr. Clinton, he boiled with resentment that a candidate with as little experience as Mr. Obama was given what he considered a free pass by the news media. Yet his tone struck some as dismissive.
When Mr. Clinton referred publicly to Mr. Obama as a “kid,” Representative James E. Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina, recalled in an interview that a fellow black congressman said,
“I don’t know why he didn’t just call him ‘boy’ and get it over with.”
“(Bill)Clinton was using code words that most of us in the South can recognize when we hear that kind of stuff,” Mr. Clyburn said.
Read much more here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/us...kEs2b+dkmKAQ9w
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Bill is at least as fierce to win as his wife is! That kind of combined power I don't like. He should have completely abstained from helping his wife... she should make it on her own, with her own strength and charisma, her own policies.
It speaks a great deal for Obama's personal singular strength to have come this far against the Clinton Powerhouse... and he kept his composure..
;-);-)
