Some people don't know when to leave the stage. Others never accepted that when they were on it, they weren't the ones in the spotlight. And some of those people think they are owed a turn in that spotlight, and won't stop until they get it.
Or until the people who control the spotlight tell them they have to stop, because it's never going to happen. And that's what the voters did to Hillary Clinton on Tuesday. For decades she's been positioning herself to win the presidency. It has been the obsession of her life. Every move she's made - taking over her husband's health care initiative, choosing not to leave him over his infidelity, running for the Senate, accepting the job of Secretary of State - every one of those decisions came down to one question in her mind:
