The controversies of the day

Tue, April 15, 2008 - 3:10 PM

Clinton did not specifically address some of the biggest questions on the trail right now, but instead danced around them.

No mention of Obama’s remarks characterizing small-town America as bitter. But she did emphasize the plight of middle-class America as she spoke and mentioned her own middle-class roots. And she entered and left to the music of a rocker that epitomizes working-class roots, John Cougar Mellencamp.

Even though some have called on her to drop out of the race, she didn’t address it directly. But she did promise it would end. Eventually.

“I know this campaign has gone on a long time. But elections do end,” she said. “.. All we have left is the choice we have made.”

In her final thought she extolled the virtues of Americans, but it easily could have been a veiled reference to her fight for the presidency.

“There is no one who can count us out if we are willing and able to rise up and seize the challenge before us,” she said.

-- Amy Dominello