An unpublished entry from 8/12/03. I didn't publish it then, just found it while doing some housecleaning.

It has a weird resonance now.

The original entry:

Losing without class / VIEW FROM THE LEFT

The conservatives just can't get over it. Clinton is history, yet they revive him at every opportunity.

The 'grafs that leap out at me in 2008:

Granted, it's better to win than to lose. But there is such a thing as grace in defeat. Whenever there's a winner, there has to be at least one loser. In a competitive society such as ours, learning to lose well is as important as learning to win well.

To be serious about it, liberal Democrats are no more graceful in defeat than conservative Republicans are. (Look how they blame Ralph Nader, or Florida, or the Supreme Court for the debacle that was Al Gore.)

But conservative Republicans really do seem to provide us with the best examples of how not to lose.

I report, you decide.

But, to quote Neil Young:

'Cause you know
how time fades away.
Time fades away
You know how time fades away
-"Time Fades Away", ©Neil Young.