Bush made it possible for Hillary to run for president

I like what Marc has to say after the New Hampshire primary. Clearly no fan of Hillary Clinton, he makes a strikingly conspicuous point.

Let's look at the bright side of things, people. One of the things I would enjoy the most about having Hillary Clinton in the White House is that it would drive the nutcase right-wing absolutely batshit. Can you imagine the likes of Rush OxyMoron and that crazy Nazi nutcase Mark Levin in the aftermath of a Clinton victory? That alone would make a Clinton victory a pure pleasure. I've heard some pundits argue that the GOP would really secretly prefer Hillary, if they had to have a Dem in the White House, simply because she's so pro-corporate and business-friendly. But these pundits are over-estimating the wisdom and depth of the Republicans. Talk to a wingnut sometime: these people really do despise Hillary with every fiber of their being.

And it would! In a very The Daily Show kind of way.

Marc isn't wrapped in a pipedream however, and provides a solid dose of reality.

At the end of the day, what's the most important lesson Dems can take from New Hampshire? It's this: nothing is set in stone in the 2008 election. I see too many Democrats who seem smug about re-taking the White House in 2008, simply because Bush has been such a disaster for America. But New Hampshire ought to show all of us that anything can happen and that nothing should be taken for granted in 2008.

Yeah! That's what I thought when the pundits and pollsters were yapping prior to the primary. Pollsters, I suppose, should be given a little latitude. They have, after all, taken a sample which should give them some insight. But the pundits? They have no excuse. They let their hubris direct them and got it stuffed squarely up their asses. They were wrong because they played to their traditional audience... without paying attention to the possible effects of their misogynist ramblings.

Still others are claiming that Clinton's sudden resurgence was brought about by a backlash by the women of New Hampshire.

There was a backlash by women against the media's coronation of Obama. There may well have been something about Clinton implying that she was an older woman who was being passed over by a less experienced man for a job. That may well have resonated with some women, especially after she seemed actually human in the last two days. Once Clinton was weak enough to ask for their help, they gave it to her.

Geez, Andrew. Maybe we should replay that for the next primary. Give the "old woman" a chance? Once Clinton behaved like a "weak" woman? Is that what you're trying to say? They felt sorry for her so they formed a voting block?

I'm glad Andrew tried to defend his pain at Obama's loss with that. Despite the fact that it is despicable on the face of it, it opens up something else.

If the Bush administration has done nothing good in the last seven years, one thing has emerged that may provide a small ray of hope for the future.

Having had their country ravaged by the most incompetent, uncaring, dishonest and reckless administration in the history of the United States, voters are looking for anyone who can provide them relief - even a woman.

Would that it was not that way. A far preferable scenario would be one in which a woman, a competent woman, would be judged against her competing peers by an intelligent and informed population. That her worth was not judged against a depraved and morally bankrupt administration, but solely against those she challenged for high office.

Clinton, being described by Andrew Sullivan as an "older woman" is a joke at best and insulting at worst. On the Republican side stands John McCain who, at 72 years of age, is one of the oldest people to ever run for president.

Hillary Clinton is 61. She will likely outlive both John McCain and George W. Bush, who is a year older than her. She's not running for America's Top Model. She is vying to lead a country which, despite seven years of gross mismanagement, still has calculable but significant global influence and for an office which, once the incumbent is relegated to his Texas outhouse, can once again lead the democracies of the world.

It is sad that it took the turpitude of the Bush administration to finally make it possible for a woman to run for the US presidency and be considered a serious candidate. But, if it's any consolation, the Bush legacy may well be that his presidency was so bad that people finally came to realize that that a person's sex has absolutely nothing to do with their ability to do the job.