Clinton trudging up the hill.

[LAS14]

It took my overnight to begin to appreciate the upsides of Obama's joke about Hillary at the correspondents dinner - a cartoon of her pushing a boulder up a hill. If you discount Sysiphus it was as positive as you could get for a required slam.

But as time goes by I'm getting even more positive about it. I'm seeing a general election where Hillary's lack of "excitement" becomes a great foil for pointing out Trump's total lack of substance. I read something about this in the last few days and can't get at it via Google for the life of me. It was an article questioning the value of Sanders/Trumps large crowds. Can anyone point me to where that might be?

tia
las

p.s. I FOUND IT! But the date is April 26. Dunno why I didn't see it until the last few days.

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/26/475681237/campaign-mystery-why-dont-bernie-sanders-big-rallies-lead-to-big-wins

[riversedge]

1. Just saw your post. Yes, I remember reading that article. For the most part it is true.

[Skinner]

3. Vox had an unorthodox take on "Trudge up the Hill"...

...which Hillary supporters might appreciate:

http://www.vox.com/2016/5/1/11549570/obama-correspondents-dinner-joke

[LAS14]

4. Terrific article! Thanks! nt

[yallerdawg]

5. If you've been a lifelong Democrat, you know!

What Obama is identifying in Clinton is a belief that political change is hard, that it's thankless, that it's full of false starts and sudden collapses and can begin to resemble a Sisyphean struggle the longer you're in it — but that ultimately doing that hard work is the only way anything gets done, and that dreams like Bernie's of an easier path to bigger change are naïve and harmful.