Sometimes It’s The Little Things That Count

It isn’t written anywhere that a politician has to congratulate, let along acknowledge, an opponnent following a loss, but Hillary Clinton seems to be developing a pretty good case of sour grapes.

Last night, for the second election night in a row, Clinton failed to do either after Obama cleaned her clock in the Potamac Primaries.

Reports CNN political producer Peter Hamby:

“On Tuesday in El Paso, hours after Virginia had been called for Obama, she stuck to her Texas campaign kickoff message and did not stray from an energetic, Lone Star-themed stump speech. She did mention Obama by name, only to chide his health care plan.

“On Saturday night in Richmond, Virginia, Clinton spoke to a crowd of thousands at the state’s annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner, but she ignored Obama’s quartet of blowout primary and caucus wins that day as well (Obama also won the Maine caucuses the next day). . . .

“Clinton congratulated Obama and John Edwards after their first and second place finishes in the Iowa caucuses. Obama returned the favor in New Hampshire, saying Clinton ‘did an outstanding job.’ That courtesy continued through the early states.

“But as the race has shifted to a delegate chase with dozens of states in play around the country, the notion of congratulating one’s opponent seems, for Clinton, to have fallen by the wayside.”