You know, the biggest myth of this campaign was that somehow the Clintons controlled the apparatus.  They didn't.  And, and, you know, I look back and I think that the, the two moments before the campaign even started were clues as to how difficult this was going to be for them.  One was the election of Howard Dean as DNC chair, and the other was Democrats winning control of Congress in 2006 and the ascension of Nancy Pelosi as one of the leaders.  Here they had two of the sort of three cogs of the Democratic leadership, in Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean, who were waiting for there to be a crack in this inevitability armor of, of the Clintons.  And once there was, it's as if they were just waiting.  And it wouldn't have mattered if it was Barack Obama, Mark Warner, had he run, or John Edwards.  Whoever ended up filling the vacuum of the anti-Clinton, they were going to rush to them.  And I think that that's something the Clinton campaign never appreciated.  I think they thought that it was sheer will they would get those superdelegates with them.  They would get whatever rulings they needed, whatever primary calendar they wanted.  But every step of the way, nothing went their way on process in the inside, and I think that shocks a lot of us today that they lost the inside game.  It's one thing to lose the outside game, votes and all that stuff, but they lost the inside game.

I watched the speech not for what she would say, but for what she would NOT say.  I wondered to what extent she would say things I suspected she did not believe.

Other than Obama's "determination" and "grit," she did not talk about Obama's character and integrity.  She did not talk about his experience.  She did not talk about "hope" or "change."  She didn't talk about "the new politics."  She concentrated on policy -- HER policies and hot buttons.  For the most part, she could have made the same speech about any of the other candidates if it had been one of them instead of Obama to beat her.

It was a very good speech.  My conclusion:  In the whole race, nothing became her more than her leaving it.

There were roughly 1,400 Democrats (delegates, alternates, and active party volunteers) at the Boulder County Democratic Party Convention in Longmont, Colorado on March 15, 2008.

Wellington Webb, the popular former Mayor of Denver, was there in great form to speak for Hillary. By coin toss, I think, Mayor Webb was scheduled to go first.

Consider these three recent developments:

Clark will be attending the debate in Philadelphia this evening "with Hillary Clinton."

1. Tomorrow he will be in New Hampshire to meet with veterans to explain Hillary's plan to help veterans.
2. I just got an e-mail from the Clinton campaign quoting Clark in his Daily Kos blog today.
3. It's becoming clear that Gen. Clark will be a prime surrogate for Hillary, just as he was for John Kerry in 2004.

You may or not support Hillary herself, and you may or may not like her putting Clark out front on her behalf.  But just for me, I like it anytime when people get to experience him in person.

Stan Davis
Lakewood, CO
Wes Clark -- Don't settle for less.
Make America All It Can Be!

I'm a bit surprised at the lack of discussion on the topic here, though I suppose the traffic here has probably
plummeted in the wake of the Hillary endorsement.

Here's the Entry Gen. Clark wrote on Huffington Post on October 4, 2007 (same link on Blog Buzz):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gen-wesley-clark/i-support-hillarys-posit_b_67170.html

So, Hillary and Wes Clark are following Joe Lieberman's 'leadership' in dealing with Iran (designating the
entire Islamic Revolution Guard, a core part of Iran's military, a terrorist organization, helping pave the