Last night, a speech to his supporters in Iowa when he announced that he now had a majority of pledged delegates in the Democratic primary, Barack Obama said of his adversary, Hillary Clinton, “We have had our disagreements during this campaign, but we all admire her courage, her commitment and her perseverance. No matter how this primary ends, Senator Clinton has shattered myths and broken barriers and changed the America in which my daughters and yours will come of age.”
While it is certainly true that Senator Clinton’s historic run for the White House has changed the way that Americans think about the idea of a female Commander in Chief, it is easy to be gracious when you are winning. By now, most media pundits and political experts agree that there is mathematically no way that Senator Clinton can garner the requisite number of delgates. Still, as her campaign almost surely is drawing to a close, whether she acknowledges it or not, what legacy will her bid for the presidency leave for women?