How Hillary got her groove back!

It looks like the long drawn out Primary elections for the Presidency of USA will be over tomorrow with Barrack Obama winning the nomination of the Democratic Party. Time has finally come for Hillary Clinton to give up her quest. As an Obama supporter, I will be relieved to see her out of the picture. To be frank, Hillary has been getting dangerously strong in the last two months, and would have beaten Obama if the primaries have not run out on her. This was like a soccer match where losing team almost gets back in the game by scoring two spectacular goals in the last minutes. Although there was not much publicity, Hillary has recently trounced Obama in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Puerto Rico. She won them with margins she has never gotten before (that too, when the MSM and political pundits had already declared Obama the ‘presumptive nominee’). There is something going very right with Hillary. What happened? I think the main reason for this transformation is that Hillary finally ‘found her voice’, and it showed. She fired her evil campaign manager, Mark Penn, and stopped triangulating on issues based on the polls supplied by him. She felt comfortable as the fighter for the ‘common people’ (who happens to be mostly blue collar whites, as blacks overwhelmingly support Obama). She banished to the outskirts her short-tempered husband Bill Clinton, who reminded people of sleaze and Monica Lewinsky. Women started to like her better, and they started to see her plight similar to what they experienced at work where a smart young man comes out of nowhere, and takes away their chance. She also became more positive in her campaigns as she stopped attacking Obama directly*, and focused on the issues which matter to the people. Hillary finally got her groove back, and was off running. Thank God it was too late. (I still think Obama would be a better President!)

*Come to think of it, none of Hillary’s attacks at Obama ever worked for her (she had nothing to do with Jeremiah Wright and the ‘elitism’ controversies which damaged Obama). In fact, she managed to antagonize the whole black population by trying to paint Obama as a ‘typical’ black candidate. That cost her dearly. She would have won the whole thing if she managed to hold on to at least 15-20% of the black votes, from her 80% support at the beginning of the campaign!).