It seems like Hillary Clinton is not the only one who's having (or was having) trouble letting go of her campaign. Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones (Oh-11, my congresswoman) was one of Hillary's first and foremost supporters, serving as a national co-chair in her campaign.
Today the Cleveland Plain Dealer published an interview with the congresswoman in which she digs in her heels and sounds barely reconciled to the situation.
http://blog.cleveland.com/...
While a lot of what she says makes good sense, such as "Everybody's rushing to have her do something. I don't think there was any rush. Just like I don't believe there's any rush for Barack Obama to choose who his vice presidential candidate will be," it seems to me there's a clear undertone of annoyance in the interview. While she insists she will work for the Democratic ticket, when asked if she will work on behalf of Obama, she says, "I have not been asked to be involved in his campaign. I don't know. I'm clearly, as with Sen. Clinton, going to work on behalf of the ticket, but I don't know that Sen. Obama is going to ask me to play a prominent role in his campaign. I don't presuppose it. I don't know. Ask him."
Throughout she plays it coy about her feelings about Obama. She's the type of person who likes to be wooed, and I've got no idea how far Obama would go to woo her. After all, in the primary he carried the district 70-28, and it's not like there's a discernible cache of McCain voters here in this overwhelmingly Democratic, majority-black district. I suppose in a way he doesn't need her, although it would be nice to see everyone working together.
I understand where she is coming from and am not among those who have been demanding she be primaried (as if!). But I sense more than a little hint of bitterness in statements like "I think that Sen. Hillary Clinton is a fantastic candidate and was the best qualified. She won the (popular) vote but she isn't the nominee of the Democratic Party, and I live with that."
Well, congresswoman, she really didn't. And we all live with that.