It was a highly symbolic moment.

Hillary Clinton was standing tall at the National Building Museum in Washington, the same place where she and her husband waltzed during the inaugural gala of his first four years as President. The place not only suited her for its historical significance. It gave her the platform for a last hurrah where all eyes were focused on her.

It's no secret I was never hot for Clinton's bid for the nomination. Actually, for years I have been saying that her nomination would be a bad idea if one because it was ramping up to be as the second turn in a dynastic loop of presidencies that started with George Herbert Bush. Imagine the line up :

George Herbert Bush (1988)
William Jefferson Clinton (1992)
William Jefferson Clinton (1996)
George Walker Bush (2000)
George Walker Bush (2004)
Hillary Clinton (2008)

and then maybe because she would have been the incumbent,

Hillary Clinton (2012)

That would have been 28 years of Bushes and Clintons. And that's of course, not counting the 8 years George H. Bush spent as Vice-President. Yes ... ponder that one.

So when Hillary Clinton finally conceded on Saturday it became a moment of huge historical significance.

Barack Obama ran on the message for CHANGE, one that many Washington insiders, including Hillary Clinton, dismissed as "fairy tale" talk. And yet, Clinton as the ultimate insider and one of the most powerful women on the planet, could not make her party's movers and shakers, the superdelegates, give her the nomination.

That to me, and not just the fact that she was the first woman to come thisclose, is the number one reason why her campaign is of such historical significance.

Yes, she is an expert politician. Yes, she showed tenacity and "testicular fortitude".

Yet Hillary Clinton ran as the ultimate representative of the status quo and as the standard bearer of "The Twofer" or the "Bill Clinton 2.0" presidency. Had she been any other woman she would not have come this far. She made it because she was a Clinton after all.

That's why she's so important for the future first woman president of the United States. There are so many mistakes and so few rights that Hillary Clinton's campaign will become the stuff of legend in many political science and feminist studies programs if only because it's the looking glass needed to highlight why the U. S. has yet to elect a woman to the White House.

So here's to Hillary Clinton for blazing trails in the way that she least expected. Surprises, in the end, are what life is worth living for.