Laudo Pro Dies

"For all of Hillary's brand recognition, institutional advantages (including the ferocious support of a former president), fund-raising head start and inherent appeal to the party's core constituency (working class white women), she finds herself on the ropes, in debt and having to go hugely negative just to stay alive. Does any sane Democrat really think that this is a viable alternative to Obama?" -commenter at The New Republic, on Clinton's new message of how Obama can't "close the deal". In this seemingly endless primary season, perspective does indeed help.