QuoteBy BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer
Sat Jun 7, 5:41 PM ET
Analysis (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080607/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_analysis)
WASHINGTON - This one's for the girls.
That was Hillary Rodham Clinton's message Saturday as she ended her presidential bid — a final, full-throated acknowledgment of what her pioneering quest had meant to women.
It was a moving, genuine and unexpected moment for Clinton, who spent most of her campaign playing down her gender as a way to reassure voters who might have trouble imagining a female commander in chief.
She ran a poor campaign. Depended too much on bigness and never recovered from the early days when her people never saw Obama coming. And her hubby didn't help.