Hillary Clinton had a reunion with old friends and some new friends at Yale Law School this morning. Even non-Hillarists will enjoy reading about the warmth of the reception and her enjoyment of the meeting. All's well that ends well, but this ended on an unwelcoming, sour note.
New Haven should have been friendly territory for Mrs. Clinton. After all, Yale was where she graduated from law school, met Bill Clinton and, by all accounts, developed a devotion to public service.
But Senator Barack Obama has drawn a considerable share of support around New Haven. Not only is he intensely popular among college students, but last week he won the endorsement of the Yale Daily News, the student newspaper.
“It would seem natural for us to endorse Hillary Clinton for president,” the editors wrote, noting that Mrs. Clinton graduated from Yale Law School in 1973. But “to endorse her would be to endorse intelligence and preparedness, but also divisiveness and the politics of manipulation.”
And on Saturday morning, Rosa DeLauro, the Congresswoman who represents New Haven, announced that she was throwing her support to Mr. Obama.
The Yale Daily News gets it exactly right: "... would be to endorse intelligence and preparedness, but also divisiveness and the politics of manipulation." Amen.
Michael Chabon, in a Washington Post editorial, gets it right, too.
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