Here are the two things you need to know about Hillary Clinton’s appearance on Meet the Press (transcript will be here, eventually):

1) Overall, Hillary did pretty well; Russert threw everything he had at her – her Iraq war vote, her previous comments opposing a timeline for withdrawal, Norman Hsu, the comments from previous Clinton fundraising scandals about how the White House is like the subway and requires coins to enter, or Democrats’ fears about her high negatives. On every one, she quickly managed to swerve back to her preferred message, be it “the failed policy of this president and the failures of the Iraqi government” or “the need for public financing” (essentially arguing, give me public money so I no longer will have to take crooks’ money) or how she did well in the “red parts” of New York state.

2) She finally did denounce, or express disapproving comments, about the MoveOn.org ad – and then turned around and said she didn’t like criticism of John Kerry or Max Cleland either. Of course, that argument blurs the line between elected officials who served in the military in the past and currently-serving military officers. The latter two were senators running for office, and were criticized in the context of that campaign for that office; Petraeus isn’t running for anything.