Frank Rich's column in the NYT may well have been a deadly blow to the Clinton campaign. Because here it is, out in the open:
Hillary Clinton's campaign proves the point of her opponent: Experience is nothing without judgement. Experience is worth nothing, when it stems from an era that's coming to an end.
She claimed she was ready on day one. But her campaign proves, that she was not ready for a primary challenge, she saw coming for over a year. She claims, that actions talks louder than words. But her campaign did not take the right actions and can offer no solutions to her.
They got it wrong. And they did it themselves.
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Obama's campaign is about change. Clinton's campaign shows what happens, when you miss out on the change.
Her campaign is like those businesses of yesteryear who miss a change in technology or a change in consumer behaviour - they continue to do what worked for so long for them, just to wake up to the unpleasant fact, that it doesn't work any longer.
They were relying on polling and microtrends and focus groups and going for the big states. All which worked so well for so long.
Until it didn't...
And all this was brought about them, all by themselves. It was not Obama's recent "attacks". It was their own misjudgment and the wrong decisions from over a year ago. The blindness towards the change. The arrogance towards the voters (...see Frank Rich's priceless line "No sooner does Mrs. Clinton lose a state than her campaign belittles its voters as unrepresentative of the country."). And the lack of a positive vision.
How do you recover from that?