Ambinder: Wolfson, Hesitant To The End, Finally Saw Some Of The Magic

Watch for an op-ed in tomorrow's Washington Post by former Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson, one of Clinton's still-stalwart defenders. Last Thursday, he paid attention, along with 32 million other Americans, and saw something he hadn't seen before.

The key line:

Barack Obama pulled it off. For 18 months, I listened to Obama on television, sometimes intently, often just barely - background noise to a running series of conference calls and meetings and e-mails. In person, my attention undivided, I saw something of what so many others had seen for so long. Progress in America is never cheap, and even today history exacts a price for Obama's victory - the dreams of electing the first female president, the dreams of so many who rushed toward Hillary Clinton on rope lines across America and refused to give up her hand and their hopes. Today these dreams are giving way to another kind of progress. For me, the presidential campaign began in a crowded Iowa hall, where I saw a man my age lift up a daughter around my daughter's age and tell her that one day she could be president. Last week things came nearly full circle, when I saw another man my age lift up another child and say the very same thing.

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/

I was disappointed when Wolfson said that the McCain pick of Palin "could work!", instead of saying that Hillary supporters should feel insulted.