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Hillary: "We Still Have A Lot Of Work Ahead Of Us"
In her victory speech tonight, Hillary primes her supporters for the bitter struggle ahead:
"We still have a lot of work ahead of us. But if you're ready, I'm ready."
Also, though the vote tallies could still show her winning by less than a double-digit margin, and possibly as little as six points, she spins the moment as a turning point of the race:
"You made your voices heard, and because of you the tide is turning."
And she twists the knife a bit, mocking Obama supporters' "yes we can" slogan by saying: "Yes. We. Will."
Video soon.
Late Update: Here's the video:
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Comments (187)
Obama must drop out now. He cannot win against McCain. He's toast.
April 22, 2008 10:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ugh, please don't blaspheme JFK's image and legacy by spouting this nonsense. Obama is the presumptive nominee in everybody's mind except for the delusional Mrs. Clinton's. Deal with it - she'll pick up, what, 6 or 7 delegates and about 100,000 in the popular vote, both of which will be wiped out with Obama's NC win. Not exactly a blow-out, now, is it?
April 22, 2008 10:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Better throw out your calculator and buy a new one. Seems you were slightly off on the popular vote difference. You must be using that same calculator for your daily caloric intake.
April 22, 2008 11:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Woh! Don't be an ass!
April 22, 2008 11:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Some people just go too far and make everyone sick, huh? What an assclown.
April 23, 2008 1:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
you said assclown, uh hehehehe
April 24, 2008 3:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
DEAR JFK
You're looking beter than ever. Sorry, but I could not wait to have my own jet. No hard feelings ok?
Sincerely
LBJ
If you can spare the "Change We Can Believe In" we could use it over here to buy private piano lessons for our daughters. B&M Obama
April 23, 2008 9:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
what's worse - using a jfk avatar or hawking "hope" for your political aspirations?
hope is good. but i want solutions.
glad pennsylvania went the right way. imagine that for bitter voters!
April 23, 2008 1:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
barry is no one's presumptive nominee. he's a candidate until the end.
April 23, 2008 1:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
If Obama is the "presumptive nominee" - why didn't he tell the voters of Pennsylvania? By your definition, most of the democratic voters there are delusional too.
April 23, 2008 4:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
It is not their fault that they are uninformed about the rules of the game that will prevent Sen Clinton from earning the nomination. They have been misinformed by Sen Clintons campaign. Sen Clinton is actualy worse off today than she was yesterday. The margins of victory she needs in the remaining contests i9s larger now than it was before PA. She needed 20% margins of victory before PA. Since she got less than that in PA she would have to make up for it in later states. Since she could not do it in PA, the state that most favored her How is she going to do better in NC which favors Sen Obama?
April 23, 2008 10:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
So in other words, Obama is the 'presumptive nominee' only in your own mind.
April 23, 2008 1:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama is not the presumptive nominee only in some tortured view that is as far from reality as the one where we are winning in Iraq. She is just as detached for the reality based community as George and Dick. They are equaly deluded just on differnt subjects.
April 23, 2008 2:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
So most of the Democratic voters of Pennsylvania are as 'detached from reality' as George Bush? You sound just as elitist and out of touch as Obama.
April 23, 2008 3:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
DEAR CAROL SOPRANO: Ugh begats Ugh
I saw JFK on TV and you're no JFK. Why hell you're not even a reasonbale likeness so stop telling your neighbors you are. Didn't your parents show you enough love? Now get off the computer and return my costume.
Sincerly
Karl Rove
REMEMBER: Donate your spare "Change We Can Believe In" to help the suffering of Harvard student loan deadbeats.
April 23, 2008 8:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yup.
April 22, 2008 10:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
gotaLIE supporting an insult against a woman yet he/she pretends to admire hillary.
seems these hillary cool-aiders have no shame and will insult and call names as a way to show their solidarity with the clinton ideals and character.
that the clintons will be relegated to the trash heap of american politics after this trashing by Obama will be a fitting ending to their influence as they exit with their moral partner, george bush.
April 22, 2008 11:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/22/chris-matthews-the-media_n_98086.html
You're dillusional. She's already lost and has no chance of winning.
April 22, 2008 11:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Given that he only lost by 8.6% in one of her home states, I don't get see what you're talking about.
http://www.electionreturns.state.pa.us/
Incidentally, 8% is what Josh called the "dividing line" on expectations.
As for Obama campaign expectations, it's worth pointing out that they predicted a loss in Pennsylvania a long time ago, based largely on its older demographics.
http://www.ilikesalt.com/files/obamacampaignexcel.xls
April 23, 2008 2:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
"We still have a lot of work ahead of us. But if you're ready, I'm ready."
It won't be easy to hand the 2008 election to John McSame, but with your help, we CAN DO IT!
/hillary
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April 22, 2008 10:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can't believe that they've gone back to stealing Obama's lines again. Yes We Can, indeed. I'm going to donate some money to Obama.
April 22, 2008 10:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought that was VERY low-class. What an asshole she must be to mock the other candidate's supporters. She's going to need his supporters if she manages to pull her pathetic campaign out of the toilet and get the nomination.
April 22, 2008 11:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Quick- who did Obama steal it from?
April 23, 2008 12:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
Lousy 'gotcha' retort, donkey. This time she's doing the copy-cat crap to be mocking--not of Obama, mind you--but of his supporters. She's a sore loser and a shitty winner too. And stupid. She's going to personally insult Obama's supporters, then turn around and expect them to fall in line behind her in November?
VERY low-class.
April 23, 2008 1:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Laura, you’re going to make fun of my name? My grandmother used to tell me that we were related to Francis Scott Key, so I’ve always felt a tinge of pride before every ball game :) Yes, I was joining in the snarky gotcha thing. I guess I should have put a smiley face after (the answer was: Sammy Davis, Jr.! -Did you get it right?).
Seriously, Clinton was not denigrating Obama supporters any more than he was insulting hers when mocking the 3 AM experience thing or calling her Annie Oakley because she tried to relate to her gun-clinging voters. It’s a typical attack questioning the message of the other camp. They have both looked kind of silly playing this game, but the personal character denigration that takes place is more of a smear than this kind of thing. Can’t you see how all of these little half-truth or whole-cloth snubs along with melodramatic fainting reactions are playing gotcha with the other side?
April 23, 2008 12:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Your name is really Don Key?? Pull the other one! I thought you were sporting a Democratic nickname... You should use the Democratic Party symbol for your avatar.
I know the candidates mock each other. I don't mind when she makes smartass remarks about Obama, like "the heavens open up, and light shines down, and blah, blah..."
And I don't really mind when any of her 'surrogates' make fun of Obama's supporters--you know, like that doofus that said Obama's supporters are all "latte drinking, Prius driving, Birkenstock wearing, etc...." I thought that was kind of funny, actually. Reminded me of when I was a kid and I'd hear old dumbass conservative bigots griping about the "goddamn n*gg*r lovin', flag burnin', hippie, peace-queers."
But it stings when it's directed at us and it's coming from her. That seems especially spiteful. Understand what I mean?
April 23, 2008 6:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Okay, maybe my name isn’t really Don Key but, hey, it’s not “donkey” either. I mean, can’t I play indignant, too? :) And I admit Sammy Davis’ motto was “Yes, I Can,” which doesn’t quite rally the troops. But my unstated points were (psychics only): Who is stealing what from whom? How can anyone complain about rephrasing a slogan that wasn’t originally theirs? How is it a personal insult? Why are do we incessantly parse every statement and blow up every sound-bite to win some little point?
I'm not dismissing anyone's feelings, but was it really directed at voters or at the Obama campaign? If Obama supporters are actually hurt and insulted by HRC chanting “Yes, we will” then I wonder if they are not investing too much in a campaign. I’m not at all questioning anyone’s belief in a candidate or commitment to a cause, but is it so “us vs. them” that when, say, the New York Giants fans chant “Pulverize the Patriots” it is personally insulting? I think people are being played by the media (including blogs) and the campaigns. It seems a lot of bloggers believe that pushing these little attacks can affect the outcome and persuade voters one way or the other, but I don’t see it having much of an impact.
April 23, 2008 9:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, I just stated how it made me feel. Minimize it if you want to. I thought it was snide and tacky and really ungracious.
I'll bet other Obama supporters felt the same way.
Yeah, I'm invested in my candidate. Am I supposed to be embarrassed about that? Well, I'm not.
I think when there's a winner and a loser, the winner should be just as gracious as the loser.
And no, I'm not trying to make this any bigger than it is--I just said I thought what she did was really low-class, and I told you why. I stand by that.
April 24, 2008 12:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
laurajordan,
You got the part wrong about BHO supporters not voting for Hillary. Poll after poll supports the fact that MORE of BHO's voters will vote for here than vice versa.
And speaking of DONKEYS, you should steal a pic of somebody else's mug for your avatar... just sayin'
April 24, 2008 3:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
ryotsu,
Stop with the personal insults. It's juvenile and doesn't help your case.
April 24, 2008 11:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
What is it with all you limousine librals who think you can buy anything? Money is your answer to everything. Instead of recognizing what a pathetically weak and fatally flawed candidate Obama really is, your only solution is to keep throwing money at him. Do you really have so much contempt for average, hard-working Americans that you think you can ram him down our throats with your money?
April 23, 2008 3:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
come on everybody HillaryClinton.com come donate!
:)
April 22, 2008 10:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nice one! ;)
April 22, 2008 10:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
“…But I really do think it’s a strange time because we’re all watching to see who won, but as Nora pointed out, 4 out of 5 ,or so, of the Hillary voters today believe she’s still in the running. That this is still up in the air and I think that was probably a mistake of the media. I think in the effort of the media, to try to keep this game going, we’ve created the delusion that somehow this race is still open. I don’t think it is open. I think if you look at the numbers Barack has to really blow it in the weeks ahead to lose.”
-Chris Matthews
I wonder what the Hillary Deathwatch will say in two weeks? It's been about 9 percent chance of getting the nomination. Slate.com
April 22, 2008 10:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Josh,
Has this been a "Gelding"???
Is that a word you learned at Brown?
April 22, 2008 10:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Leave Brown out of this.
April 22, 2008 10:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't you love when "progressives" get sexist? It's so awesome!
That sure was "GELDING" Josh. Right on! Hope, change, unity, vague, vague, vague. Cult of personality.
April 22, 2008 10:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sniffing too many blue poppies lately?
April 23, 2008 2:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes you will drop out, my dear.
Yes you will.
April 22, 2008 10:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
She has survived to fight another day. But her money is low and her negatives are high. The best she can hope for is to deny Obama the presidency so she can run in 2012. That's the only path open to her...
April 22, 2008 10:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
I disagree with that last line. I do not think that a run in 2012 is any longer a live possibility. She has burnt too many bridges for that. Not, mind you, that I think that she still has a chance in 2008; I just mean that she has no chance in 2012 either, and I suspect that she even knows that. In other words, I no longer buy the line that she is trying to ensure that Obama loses in order that she has a clear shot to run in 2012. I think that there are only two plausible explanations at this point to account for her persistence at this point: 1) she really does, as the articles at Politico and elsewhere suggest, really believe that only she can win, and thus she is holding out for a long shot because she believes that such is the only possibility for the democrats to retake the White House this year. That is the generous explanation. 2) The other plausible explanation is that she is trying to rough him up so that he will lose - not in order that she might run in 2012, but just to punish him for getting in her way. I leave the reader to decide which of those two seems the more plausible.
April 22, 2008 10:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have felt for some time that Team Clinton is a bit too mean spirited, destructive and vindicative. This appears to show up at times when it is totally unnecessary. You do have a point.
April 22, 2008 10:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary seems mean spirited to you because Obama is suck a wimp. I've never seen a candidate who was so admired and celebrated for his weakness.
April 23, 2008 3:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
I agree. I don't think she'd have a chance in 2012 because the "activist base" she so loathes would be out for revenge. Plus, she's going to be four years older....
April 22, 2008 11:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
"activist base" = losers who like losing elections.
April 23, 2008 3:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Why is it that the GOP courts their base and the Dems run from it? Is it because they are wusses like Clinton who think that their policies cannot be sold honestly so the voters must be lied to? Barak has the courage of his convictions and will win as a Democrat. Kerry did not loose because he was to liberal. He lost because he did not diferentiate himself from his oponent. This is not 84 when liberal was an insult. This is 2008 when Bush has discredited the conservative brand and the shellshocked wuss Clintonite wing of the party cannot see the change that has happened.
April 23, 2008 10:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
since she has a sense of entitlement and has proved capable of saying or doing anything to further her ambition she cant accept the fact that she has lost.
i agree she has burnt to many bridges.
she will never recover the black vote and the progressives.
i believe she continues because she is just to afraid to face the reality that she will never become president.
as long as she has enablers around her who allow her to keep this fantasy alive she can face herself.
imagine having her ambition and believing after planning for 30 years that she would be president only to realize it wont be so.
she is doing the only thing she can to hold onto her sanity. someone will have to step in eventually and help her out, but till that happens on may6, i am betting, she will continue on, scary laugh and all.
April 23, 2008 12:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
I know it's meager, but another $25 to hillaryclinton.com
April 22, 2008 10:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mark Penn is sure to be happy, he needs to get paid you know.
April 22, 2008 10:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
And I matched you with $25 to barackobama.com! Woohoo! I think we know who will win this fundraising war...
April 22, 2008 10:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yep cuz his 11 million in ads in PA worked out well.
April 22, 2008 11:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, it did help - it cut her lead at least in half. So I'd say that it was pretty damned successful. What did her $5M get her? Look at the exit polls ... she's bleeding support in all demographics except for older women. She blew a 20+ point lead, she'll pick up probably 6 delegates and 100,000 in the popular vote, both of which will be erased by his NC win, and her negatives are higher than ever. So I'd say the $11M was money very well spent!
April 22, 2008 11:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Even according to Obama, a loss is a loss.
April 22, 2008 11:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
This seems a rather odd perspective to take. Surely a 20 pt loss is worse than a 10 pt loss, no? To act as if cutting her margin in half is a great waste of money suggests merely that you really do not understand how this game is won.
April 23, 2008 12:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
So you think Obama can buy the Democratic nomination. But do you really think that he can buy the presidency and outspend the Republicans 5 to 1?
If it wasn't for the advantage in money - which he will not have in the general election - his loss would have been/will be more than 20 points in November. What it says is that Obama is basically a crappy candidate with a lot of money, when what we really need is a good candidate who can win even when they're outspent = Hillary Clinton. If you don't realize that by now, you never will.
April 23, 2008 3:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
You are right a loss is a loss and Clinton has lost twice as many times as Obama. Who is the bigest looser, the person who lost PA or the person who lost the nomination?
April 23, 2008 10:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
The person who thinks that losing a primary in Pennsylvania is the same as losing a caucus Idaho.
April 23, 2008 3:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
And, by the way, yes, I read Obama's spin too. Check a couple posts back in Election Central. Thank you for reciting it though.
April 22, 2008 11:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
What am I saying here that's not true? Explain it to me.
April 22, 2008 11:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
First of all, she'll pick up close to 200,000 votes.
Second, exit polling...are we considering exit polling accurate now?
April 22, 2008 11:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Same here. I just gave $30. Time to finish this race.
April 22, 2008 11:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not to disrespect you Greg because you come across as very intelligent, but I remember you predicting a 6 point win by Hillary today. I'm hoping that your incorrect prediction today is seconded in Indiana. I know you think Obama will win there. Please, please let you be wrong.
April 22, 2008 11:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
All of the results are not in yet, but I'll let you have the 10 point margin. With 84% of the vote in she has picked up a whopping 3 delegates (her 40 to his 37) according to CNN's website (and she picks up something like 150,000 in the popular vote). Both of these should be neutralized by his win in NC.
April 22, 2008 11:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
try 200,000
April 22, 2008 11:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Surely this is one of those chickens which one would do well to let hatch before counting. There will be plenty of time to crow over the margin in the morning when we will really know its size.
April 23, 2008 12:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
You are right, I predicted a 6 pt win for Clinton. It looks instead like she will get an 8-10 pt victory. Not exactly "right on the money," but I feel that I was essentially correct. In any event, we will see about IN. You are entirely right to hope for a win for your candidate, but I am still confidently predicting a win for my own.
April 23, 2008 12:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Every time I see fools bragging about how much money they're throwing at a fatally flawed candidate, I think of how hard their daddy had to work for it.
April 23, 2008 3:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Not meager at all.
Money well invested in your future.
April 22, 2008 10:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Paying off Mark Penn's salary. Money well spent, indeed.
April 22, 2008 11:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let me get this straight - if one gives money to the Democratic nominee for president and one is told that the money would do more good if donated to the ACLU. If, however, one gives money to the also-ran, one is congratulated for the wise investment in one's future. Forgive me if the reasoning underlying this dichotomy is a touch opaque.
April 23, 2008 12:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Good for you! It is a tribute to Sen Clinton that she is able to inspire you so much that you would make such a donation. I tip my hat to her and to you.
April 22, 2008 10:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
you're really nice.
It'd be nice if more people were.
April 22, 2008 11:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why do so many of BHO's friend HATE America?
April 22, 2008 10:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
What the f*ck are you talking about? Keep spouting bullshit - it's a disgrace to use a great American as your avatar, really.
April 22, 2008 10:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Aw hell, Carol. It's best to just refuse to feed the trolls, you know?
Or just agree with their crazy shit and make them look even crazier. I responded to this troll on another thread when it made a very similar comment. Except it added something like, "His supporters hate white people and America."
And I said, "Right. White supporters too. We're self-loathers. And the slogan is HATE you can believe in.
April 22, 2008 11:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, please. Just ignore the idiot. He/she/it is clearly a microcephalic Republican troll.
April 23, 2008 5:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
Good question.
April 22, 2008 10:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Because of you. I also hate baseball, apple pie, babies and puppies. All because of you. And only you.
April 22, 2008 10:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Probably because they understand how pluralization works.
Unlike you.
April 22, 2008 11:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
with 78% of the vote HRC lead is 10 pts. i guess the suburbs didnt go for obama...
April 22, 2008 10:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I cqn only speak for Delaware County and he bested my expectations here. See my comment below.
April 22, 2008 11:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Another_reader, I think you should know there are other worthy causes around, and your $25 would be better spent elsewhere.
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April 22, 2008 10:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I may have missed it but did Hillary congratulate Obama on the race in Pennsylvania? I'm listening to Obama congratulate her on her victory, and I was raised that it's even more incumbent on the winner to be gracious--guess they skipped those lessons in Scranton since I have yet to hear her congratulate him whether he won or lost.
April 22, 2008 10:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
She utterly graceless and tactless - spiteful and mean, like a barnyard dog. She has not congratulated him on any of his wins, either. She has NO class.
April 22, 2008 10:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why, did she flip him off like he did?.
Talk about no class.
April 22, 2008 10:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Like he'd really be STUPID enough to flip her off on National TV!
April 22, 2008 11:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
That doesn't even deserve a response - if you believe that he actually did that you are even more delusional than I thought you were.
April 22, 2008 11:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
you all have to excuse gotaLIE, he/she cant help it.
April 23, 2008 12:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
"She utterly graceless and tactless - spiteful and mean, like a barnyard dog. She has not congratulated him on any of his wins, either. She has NO class."
what were you saying about spouting bullshit, you sanctimonious windbag?
April 22, 2008 11:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
In other words, you didn't watch her speech. And you haven't read a word posted by a single Obamabot here. More to the point, you haven't read a word you personally have written. Graceless, tactless, spiteful, mean.... Sounds like any one of you chumps.
April 23, 2008 6:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
Obama congratulated Clinton and praised her campaign very graciously within the first two minutes of his speech. In fact, it was the first thing he did after his initial round of thank yous for those present. I just listened to Clinton's speech a second time, and any praise, if you can call it that, occurs at 4:05 when she "commends" Obama and his supporters, but only in respect to them being a part of a "historic race." The historic aspect, as she goes on to explain, is her getting elected to be the first woman President.
Wow, she can't even praise her opponent without making it about herself! She totally lacks class.
April 23, 2008 4:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes we will raise enough money to get out of debt and pay back me and Bill....
April 22, 2008 10:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's mocking over half over the party because she managed to only lose 12-14% of her 20 point lead. I am, quite rightly, going to call this what it is: childish.
Coming tomorrow, I'm sure she'll renew her calls for the party to change the rules in the middle of the game, because she got lost in the Lollipop Woods and now she wants to leave.
April 22, 2008 10:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
well, obviously, if obama can't carry ALL the states in the primary, then he must not be able to win the general.
so I guess the supers should just give the nomination to the second-place finisher instead.
did I miss something, or is that her new strategy?
April 22, 2008 10:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL - well said, jrcjr! That is about it in a nutshell. Delusional, huh? ;P
April 22, 2008 11:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, Obama doesn't have to carry all the states. Just one or two of the states that matter would be nice.
April 23, 2008 3:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well, he got CO, WI and MO, those are crucial swing states too.
April 23, 2008 9:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
All three of those states combined only add up to 30 electoral votes. The last two big swing states where Obama has had a dismal showing - Ohio and Pennsylvania - add up to 41 electoral votes.
April 23, 2008 1:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
The bottom line, and something the 'bots refuse to see, is that The Dear Leader can't carry the important states. And when you bring it to their attention they start screaming about how you hate small states, why are you such a hater, you big meanie you, blah-blah-blah.
April 23, 2008 5:42 PM | Reply | Permalink