THE WASHINGTON REVIEW & COMMENTARY: Weekly News From The White House

If I have to hear one more political commentary on why Senator Hillary Clinton should have conceded Tuesday night, I think that I will be primed and ready to fit in a strait jacket. What really is the big hoopla about? The unification of the Democratic party? The so-called beginning of the ‘healing process’?

Even the average American voter has weighed in on this non-issue. Polls are springing up everywhere asking voters if Senator Hillary Clinton should have conceded. Many pollers are in agreement: Yes, she should have. Yet, can the average voter and political commentator understand the possible psychology and/or reasoning for why Senator Clinton made the decision that she did? No. But if you think about it for a moment, perhaps you will.

Hillary Clinton left the White House and First Lady duties back in 2001 with an agenda in place. The former First Lady carried the stinging criticisims of the Republicans about her drafted plan for nation wide health insurance. She was harassed about her non-conventional approach to being First Lady. And, who can forget the Republican witch hunt against her husband, President Bill Clinton, over his sexual indiscretions? But, Hillary Clinton had an agenda. Upon leaving the White House, the Clinton’s set up shop in New York City. Coincidence? I think not. Months later, after courting  New Yorkers and rubbing elbows with the movers and shakers in residence, Hillary Clinton runs for the Senate. And wins.

All part of bigger a goal.

Fast forward to 2007. Senator Hillary Clinton is set and poised to do something no other woman in U.S. history has had the capability nor the support to do successfully. She announces her bid to run for the Democratic nomination for President of The United States. For sixteen months, Sen. Clinton ran a monumental race that was strenuous, tenacious, difficult, inspirational and long. She ran not only against Senator Barack Obama, but Clinton ran against the tide of a negative, gender biased media who disrespected her (and still does), berated her, and questioned her independence and intelligence by repeating the absurd notion that she could not stand without her husband.

All of this and now she has been labeled as some kind of selfish, cold fish who refuses to face reality. None of this is true. Let Senator Hillary Clinton decide when it is time to let go. Let Senator Clinton make peace with a plan that has gone horribly awry. She deserves her space. She has indeed earned that and so much more.