Irish should not get carried away by Clinton nostalgia

NIALL O’DOWD, when ‘reporting’ Hillary Clinton’s victory in the Massachusetts Democratic primary (February 10), grossly exaggerated the weight of it.

His premise that the 56%-41% win for Clinton was a rebuke of Senator Ted Kennedy’s late endorsement of Barack Obama, and part of larger decades-old feud between the Massachusetts senator and Bill Clinton (apparently with this round going to the Clintons), was an exercise in political hackery, and a poor job of it to boot.

Senator Clinton won Massachusetts, my home state, for two reasons: demographics and timing.