Now pundits are analysing her loss.
“…Obama is like her idealistic, somewhat naïve self before the world launched 1,000 attacks against her, turning her into the hard-bitten, driven politician who has launched 1,000 attacks against Obama.
As she makes a last frenzied and likely futile attempt to crush the butterfly, it’s as though she’s crushing the remnants of her own girlish innocence. “
MAUREEN DOWD, NYT May 7, 2008
“…She didn’t lose because she was a woman. She didn’t lose because America isn’t ready for a woman as president. She lost because of her own — and her husband’s and Mark Penn’s — fatal missteps.”
MAUREEN DOWD, NYT June 8, 2008
Artist: Mischa Richter The New Yorker 29 January 1949