Obama '08?

She just won that's all... and no one wants to merely credit her for it.... which makes it all the sweeter to me

I think nimh just gave you a pretty handy answer soz......

Now how about a victory party

Well, yes - the truth is also that she's been a better, more sturdy campaigner than the pundits had given her credit for.

I said my piece here, but I do think that if Obama struggles and fights and wins a long, tough campaign, he will help dispel some of the sense that he is a neophyte and inexperienced - his major liabilities in the fall. This can help him. He's the under-dog again. And he can - and, I think, will still win.

Brazile: I could understand his frustration at this moment. But, look, he shouldn't take out all his pain on Barack Obama. It's time that they regroup. Figure out what Hillary needs to do to get her campaign back on track. It sounds like sour grapes coming from the former commander in chief. Someone that many Democrats hold in high esteem. For him to go after Obama, using a fairy tale, calling him as he did last week. It's an insult. And I will tell you, as an African-American, I find his tone and his words to be very depressing.

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Blitzer: But tell me why, as an African-American, Donna, you feel that the president's comments weren't appropriate.

Brazile: First of all, if Bill Bennett [also on the show] had said some of the things that Bill Clinton is saying about Barack Obama, I would have called Bill Bennett out of his name and said that Bill Bennett should shut his mouth because he is not speaking in the right tone. I think his tone, I think calling Barack Obama a kid, he is a United States senator. He's experienced. The people of Illinois elected him, and regardless of what kind of items are on his résumé, this is a man who has worked all his life. He's proven; he's been a college professor. I don't have to give Barack Obama a résumé. I'm not for anyone at this point. But I think for Bill Clinton to go out of his way to become a distraction to Hillary Clinton and to launch the kind of attack on Obama is just out of character for Bill Clinton. I think it's time he helps Hillary talk about her message and not go down this road.

I just can't believe that her "choking up" actually worked. I thought (or hoped) that we as a species had become more savvy than to be swayed by such trivialities, whether her threat of tears was genuine or rehearsed. Geez...

When I walked into the office Monday, people were clustering around a computer to watch what they thought they would never see: Hillary Clinton with the unmistakable look of tears in her eyes.

A woman gazing at the screen was grimacing, saying it was bad. Three guys watched it over and over, drawn to the "humanized" Hillary. One reporter who covers security issues cringed. "We are at war," he said. "Is this how she'll talk to Kim Jong-il?"

Another reporter joked: "That crying really seemed genuine. I'll bet she spent hours thinking about it beforehand." He added dryly: "Crying doesn't usually work in campaigns. Only in relationships."

Swimpy, looks like Edwards isn't planning to drop out of the race... he's said he's in it until the convention. (Have you seen something indicating otherwise?)

I think it could be about the media's reaction to the tears more than the tears. What Butrflynet referred to. White, college-educated women seemed to have a big part in the win and in the change from the polls.

What did you think of Bill's "fairytale" speech, Blatham? I thought he was preparing the way to go negative and he sure did. (Though evidently he was again going against the wishes of Hillary's campaign by doing so...)

Swimpy, looks like Edwards isn't planning to drop out of the race... he's said he's in it until the convention. (Have you seen something indicating otherwise?)