The zen of defeat

If I were a better person I would feel sorry for HRC.

"If" being the operative word.

I am just petty enough to enjoy watching her implosion.

Not that it's all a function of my failure as a person, Hillary has made it difficult to feel sorry for her.

First, she painted herself as the indomitable snowwoman, perhaps rightfully so. But once one comes to view you as comprised of iron and will and not much else it becomes difficult to connect to them emotionally. We assume you do not have any emotions. This could well be a trap of being a woman on the big stage but I think it is just as much the fault of Hillary as a person. Other powerful women have somehow managed to appear both human and strong.

And then Hillary did the unforgiveable, according to my admittedly arbitrary standards: she underestimated her opponent.

Now, i'm sure pundits and historians will suggest that had nothing to do with Barack's race but all about his inexperience.

Bullshit.

I smell it, I call it.

HRC and camp know the working class, blue collar America that is all about racial equality in theory...not so much in practice. To say that knowledge in no way colored their perception of Barack's electability is foolish.

Hillary's campaign hung a significent part of her inevitability on a racist America not changing her stripes.

So you will have to forgive me if her miscalculation, and what that miscalculation says about my country, does not inspire in me pity for her position.

As she is fond of saying, she'll be alright after this election win or lose.

America's well-being isn't so guarenteed.

We deserve Barack Obama as much as we need him.