I found this clip over at Towleroad, where a reader commented:
The viciousness of Hillary put-downs is deeply troubling.Sigh.
And saddening.
The Obama victory is diminished by the nastiness of all this sort of thing.
And American discourse is diminished as well.
And so I responded:
Hillary brought this on herself. I used to admire her (and Bill) and was one of their most passionate supporters and strongest defenders; and think Bill's presidency was the best of the last three decades. But this campaign has shown them to be absolutely Karl-Rovian in their campaign tactics. Sure, Obama had to fight hard in order to stay in the race, but he never retreated to the racist, homophobic, Dixiecrat tactics that the Clintons did.
If anyone diminished American discourse, it was Sen. Clinton, her husband, and the goons in her campaign.
