Hillary Clinton: She made it!

Following some moments of serious dissension in the Democratic ranks at their Philadelphia convention, between the supporters of Hillary Clinton and the recalcitrant ones of Bernie Sanders, the former made the history books, on Tuesday, as the first woman to be nominated president by a major political party. It has been a long, and often fractious, route for an ambitious woman, whose leadership was recognized even by her childhood schoolmates; and who bore the brunt, and often ridicule, by her critics. She now clearly has the last laugh.

Coming on the heels of a dynamic speech,Monday evening, by First Lady Michelle Obama, where she clearly and unequivocally identified Clinton as the one that would be able to secure the future for her daughters, and that the world would be safer for them because of her efforts at shattering gender boundaries, she also assured viewers, that these efforts, brought her, another Chicago born woman, securely into the public arena. That speech full of Obama’s “guts n’ glory” style, cemented the party ideals of unity that the Democrats have espoused; while Republican nominee, Donald Trump has done the opposite.

Obama’s ringing endorsement of the former secretary of state, New York Senator, and American first lady, stood in direct contrast to the earnest pleas of Bernie Sanders, whose supporters booed some Clinton advocates, like U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra, whose support she received, but whose district favored Sanders. The father of the “political revolution” practically begged, chided and warned of the dangers of a Trump win to gain their support.

While no one ever said Democracy was a neat enterprise, the efforts this week by the Democratic National Committee, with the graceful ouster of former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, caught in an email outing to derail Sanders, reminded viewers of that fact. While his supporters voiced their opposition to the TCP, millionaire bankers, bandits and bullies, they gave proof to that adage. But, in the end it seemed that the inevitable became, well the inevitable, as Clinton got both the votes from South Dakota, and Sander’s own home state Vermont that made her victory hit the history books.

“Breaking the barriers to opportunity” was the imprimatur given by Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski, but it seemed as if the day was clearly carried by the doggedness that is the hallmark of Clinton as she now faces her opponent, whose platform of division has earned him both the enmity of those of his own party, and much of the public where more 40 percent disapprove of him.

Now, the game is on, and Clinton will have to use her whip smart brain, and military like stratagem, to return to the White House, this time as the nation’s first female chief executive.