Mrs. Edwards and Mrs. Obama best get to helping Mrs. Clinton, otherwise there is a special place in hell for them.
Hitchens appears to be implying exactly what I believe: politics is the art of the possible, and, to the extent that we have some power of choice in the matter, our choice is best expressed as a dual function of principle and expediency.
1. What is feasible?
2. What are my ideological underpinnings?
3. What sort of governance can I tolerate?
There must be a least common denominator in there somewhere. Of course, it is hoped that the individual voter obtains all the best of it; but that is SELDOM the case.
Ms Albright would presumably know this to be true, since, by the look of her, she already resides there.
Let's all gang up on the straight white Christian guys and take away their ball and their bat so they can't play any more.
We'll play "Mother May I" instead. And I get to be Mother and make the rules.
Not much to it, when you get down to it.