Update

Looking back at the Clinton quotes in last Friday's post, I should clarify that what seemed most interesting or even refreshing was the acknowledgment by a mainstream moderate/conservative Democrat that Democratic candidates have failed to respond strongly and effectively to media and opposition attacks in the past. They seem to have an unrelenting grasp on a nostalgic vision of what they think politics used to be and are therefore playing some kind of polite politics and media game of 20 or 30 years ago, and they are losing because of it. When are today's Democrats and progressives going to wake up and fight fire with fire? When will they go on the offensive and fight the same down and dirty way the opposition is fighting and beat them at their own game?

Anyway, it's nice to see Clinton figuring this out.