John Kennedy is quoted as saying, "Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan."  Translated into modern politics, no one wants to admit responsibility for losing an election.  That includes the losing candidate's closest advisers. The postmortems on the campaign have barely begun, but Hillary Clinton's top aides are already pointing the finger of blame at others, absolving themselves of responsibility for a debacle that will go down in presidential campaign history as the most shocking outcome ever.  It should be noted that campaign staff blaming everyone but themselves for defeat is nothing new.  John McCain's aides in 2008 began a whispering campaign against Sarah Palin, blaming her for the loss before the election was even held.  But in this case, where the advice that Clinton got was so spectacularly wrong and a billion dollars was spent in a futile attempt to sell the voters a candidate with no...(Read Full Post)