It's not a loss, it's a win.

So, since the big victory, the press has been full of news about the election. And it seems to me that almost all of that coverage has been about how Clinton lost. How her advisors failed her, her organization failed her, her Iowa strategy failed her, her fundraisers failed her, her husband failed her.

These post-mortems are satisfying, in their way.

But they seem to be missing one essential reason, every one of them, every time:

What if one reason that Hillary lost was that Obama was a better candidate?

After all these months, all these displays of great campaigning by how did we get back to the Clinton as Presumptive Nominee, upset through her own fault? This line of argument passively dismisses Obama's legitimacy as the strongest candidate, and I hope they fight this line of reasoning hard if it continues past the weekend.

JEK
Schadenfreude will only take him so far