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The Democratic presidential primaries smashed every record for turnout and spending, shattered glass ceilings that once hovered over women and black candidates, even broke a few hearts. * * * For much of last year, her massive lead in the polls reflected the conventional wisdom that the front-runner was inevitable and invincible. Mr Obama, by contrast, was a mixture of hype and hope, a black man with only two years’ experience in the US Senate who had the audacity to challenge the hegemony of the Democrats’ most powerful family. Only in retrospect is it clear that there were flaws in...

Shooting yourself in the foot By David Limbaugh Unlike our president, who spent Martin Luther King Day paying respectful tribute to MLK and Abraham Lincoln, Democratic Party notables, Hillary Clinton and Albert Gore, used the holiday as another opportunity to character-assassinate President George W. Bush. Just when we were beginning to think Hillary Clinton had found her voice - albeit a decidedly phony one - as a mature, seasoned politician poised for a presidential run, she reverts to those cacophonic utterances that find little resonance beyond her embittered but indispensable base. If one could momentarily suspend his powers of discernment,...

Hillary on the Move