I know that, more than a week now since Hillary Clinton threw her support behind Barack Obama, it may seem odd to draw attention to her speech of four days earlier, but Hendrik Hertzberg’s expansive thoughts on the subject on his blog are required reading for anyone looking for a final wrapup of that crazy, long primary.
The animus directed toward Clinton that night had as much to do with expectations as anything else; if the networks had been primed to say, “This night is about Hillary and her supporters; the concessions come later” before the fact, there would have been no outcry at all. In that sense, that night’s mismatch of expectation and outcome stands as a microcosm of her campaign.