The Real Fault

Atrios has a terrific post up that concludes thusly:

I'm not sure why so many online Clinton supporters seem to be lashing out angrily at Obama supporters, instead of at the people who ran Clinton's campaign. If they'd just done things a little bit differently in February they'd have won this.

And therein lies the lesson. Whether because of arrogance or stupidity Hillary's people - Wolfson, Ickes, and especially Penn among others - thought winning a few big states would lead to Ultimate Victory on Super Tuesday. By all accounts when that didn't happen there was no Plan B so they were forced to improvise by largely "going negative" - the kitchen sink strategy.

One thing that I would add to what Atrios wrote is what does this tell us about Hillary? Specifically, could we have expected these same people to have held powerful positions in her administration? And does that give us a clue as to what sort of an administration Clinton's would have been?

While it's now all but moot, the answer, I'm afraid, is "yes."

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