Chipping Away

Rolling Stone magazine endorses Barack Obama. Whether this matters or not in the big scheme of things is hard to know, but it can't make the Clinton campaign happy to have lost this constituency. And even less happier that Ideologue-in-Chief Jann S. Wenner takes a spirited blast against the honorable Senator:

All this was made clearer by the contrast with Hillary Clinton, a capable and personable senator who has run the kind of campaign that reminds us of what makes us so discouraged about our politics. Her campaign certainly proved her experience didn't count for much: She was a bad manager and a bad strategist who naturally and easily engaged in the politics of distraction, trivialization and personal attack. She never convinced us that her vote for the war in Iraq was anything other than a strategic political calculation that placed her presidential ambitions above the horrifying consequences of a war. Her calibrated course corrections over the past three years were painful. Like John Kerry — who also voted for the war while planning a presidential run — it helped cost her that goal.

This is just one example of the increasing height of the cards that are stacked against Clinton. I still think that she can win the nomination, but my sense that in doing so she would destroy the party grows with each passing week.