Demented Narcissist For VP?

I don't want to white privilege this by posting it at the top, but it's impossible not to note how Hillary ended the primary season the way she has conducted it since Iowa: with utter lack of grace, decency, truthfulness, and with what Jeffrey Toobin on CNN called her "demented narcissism."

On the night that should have been Obama's, much of the talk was about her speech, her refusal to acknowledge what the rest of the world knew (her speech very symbolically in a room two floors below street level, where no TV, radio or cell phone signals could penetrate), and her preposterous message of telling supporters to go to her web site and tell her what they think she should do. Face reality, maybe? Be a Democrat? Actually try to get all that good things you supported done by backing the only candidate who will do them?

Her denial and her selective reality began when she called South Dakota the last primary. It was the last primary, of course, because it's the last one she's won. She doesn't acknowledge the existence of primaries (like the actual last one, in Montana) that Obama has won. And it went on from there.

Contrast the graciousness and the humility of Barack Obama's speech in St. Paul, before 17,000 in the arena plus another 15,000 outside. It's no wonder that Obama supporters, both insiders and small donors, are horrified at the idea of Hillary being the VP candidate. She is the anti-Obama, in more ways that one.

And she might actually have had a chance, if she had been a tiny bit gracious tonight, and given Obama his due. (She complimented his campaign, in the manner of a not particularly gracious victor.) But she wasn't gracious or generous or even just, and she sounds like she's trying to blackmail him into naming her VP, which would be a total disaster for him if he did. And his supporters now really won't stand for it.

Hillary Clinton may be a shining symbol to some women (even though she's apparently intent on making sure no other woman is named VP but her, hardly a principled feminist stance), but as far as I'm concerned she's a disgrace.