Article: LIKE HER OR NOT, HILLARY CLINTON DESERVES PRAISE.(Focus)

Byline: KATHA POLLITT GUEST COLUMNIST

Hillary Clinton came this close. Nobody really understands why: why she stuck it out this long, given the math, and why she gave such a grudging, graceless version of her stump speech after the South Dakota primary clinched the nomination for Barack Obama. Suggestions I've heard were not very flattering: She hoped to whittle down her multimillion-dollar campaign debt with donations from the deluded diehards screaming Denver! Denver! She wanted the No. 2 spot. She's a crazy narcissistic rhymes-with-rich. Maybe she was just ticked off because pundits have been trying to hustle her off the stage ever since her third-place ...

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