Reply #54: Bringing out the Princeton Boyz

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Interesting to me that Wilentz and Krugman, both Princeton profs, appear almost simultaneously to come to the damsel in distress's aid with anti-Obama pieces.

I am surprised at Wilentz's somewhat revisionist take on this recent history. Having been there to witness it first-hand (like the rest of you), I find his charges against the Obama campaign weak indeed. But, whatever: we all know by now that history is seen through particular cultural lenses, and is accompanied by all the baggage of the chronicler. Everybody's entitled to see it in their own way.

But I find it bizarre that these kinds of whining accusations keep being leveled. I don't think it helps her legacy in the end, and will make it more difficult to regain the stature she will need to move on to do what will surely be incredible things in whatever capacity she will continue to serve. She and her defenders need to start owning up to some responsibility for a campaign that got off track or was just slightly out of sync with a new political reality in the country they hadn't anticipated. That would do more to restore her credibility than any number of these Princeton-produced blame pieces.