Andrew Sullivan is fun when he’s brutal:
Clinton is a terrible manager of people. Coming into a campaign she had been planning for, what, two decades, she was so not ready on Day One, or even Day 300. Her White House, if we can glean anything from the campaign, would be a secretive nest of well-fed yes-people, an uncontrollable egomaniac spouse able and willing to bigfoot anyone if he wants to, a phalanx of flunkies who cannot tell the boss when things are wrong, and a drizzle of dreary hacks like Mark Penn. Her only genuine skill is pivoting off the Limbaugh machine (which is now as played out as its enemies)….
How did they come this close to losing this? They had all the money, all the contacts, all the machine levers, the entire establishment, the biggest Democratic name in decades, and they’ve been forced into a humiliating death-match by a first-term black liberal with a funny name. It seems obvious to me that the Clintons blew this because they never for a second imagined they could. So they never planned to fight it. Once put in a fair contest, they turned out to be terrible campaigners, terrible politicians, bad managers, useless executives, wooden public speakers. If you’re a Democrat, that’s good to know, isn’t it? All that bullshit about Day One and experience? In retrospect: laughable.
Yeah, I thought that was pretty awesome. Frank Rich let her have it (again) yesterday, too. I have been a supporter of Obama even before he declared, though I always thought Hillary would be the nominee. I opposed Hillary for exactly the reasons that Sullivan lists here; I really believe her White House would be run exactly this way. Liberal policies this time around, but the same management style as George Bush. I found the prospect nauseating. I am, frankly, in shock that Obama is *this close* to locking up the nomination. It seems completely surreal, and I am overjoyed. Back in January when I put my Obama bumpersticker on my ugly car, I felt like a martyr of some kind. Now I just feel prescient and cool.