NOT having written before about her presidential campaign, maybe we can claim here a certain freshness on the matter of Mrs. Clinton. The entrance of Barack Obama into the Democratic race had a special bounce for the reason that the public inevitably deduced that an important advantage for him is thatObama is not Hillary.
Her preeminence has been so well established as to pretty well efface other presumptive candidates. Obama was never one of those. In fact, one of his charms is the enormousness of his ambition. Because he is so young, because he is the ultimate racial hybrid, he is given a pretty solid welcome as a Democratic candidate. But all that the typical voter knows about him is that he made an electrifyingly successful speech at the Democratic Convention in 2004. That-and that he is not Hillary Clinton.
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