I Cannot Believe that I am Quoting Robert "Traitor and Proud of It" Novak

But he says something that I the punditocracy has studiously avoided saying until now:

In private conversations, Clinton has expressed the view that Obama's emphasis on Iraq -- her Senate vote for it, his against it -- defeated her.

While this is blinding clear to everyone else in the world, to the pundits, where being wrong on Iraq is a sign of good judgment, acknowledging this fact is the political reality that dare not speak its name.

I will note that he gets one part wrong: Obama wasn't in the Senate for the vote.