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McAuliffe: "Are You Ready For The Next President Of The United States Of The America?"
Even though the networks have declared Barack Obama the winner of the Democratic nomination, Hillary campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe is whipping up the crowd here at Hillary's victory party.
"Are you ready for her?" McAuliffe shouted. "Are you ready for the next president of the United States of America!"
The crowd roared as if the name Barack Obama was about as significant to them as the name Joe Smith.
As Hillary, Bill and Chelsea come out, the song "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" is blaring. No matter who you support, no matter how much you like or hate either candidate, it's a poignant scene.
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After McCain's rally, this looks like the fucking Citizen Kane of campaign speeches.
June 3, 2008 9:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
Doesn't make it any less of a lie though. She's just better at it.
June 3, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where is she going with this speech?
June 3, 2008 9:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
nowhere good
June 3, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'll tell you where she is going--she is still fucking campaigning!! Or let me correct that, she is actually giving a victory speech!! She is living in the Clinton alternate universe. I guess we are going to have two campaigns going on from now until November?? One between Clinton and McCain and one between Obama and McCain??? I guess the silver lining is that it will wear Pap-Pap out sooner.
June 3, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
maybe we can set up a shadow government like they have in England for Hillary to manage.
June 3, 2008 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
To the convention or, if the SuperDels decide they need to squash this party crasher, to the soon to be announced McCain/Clinton Republican ticket.
June 3, 2008 10:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Idjit or fool in motley?
June 3, 2008 9:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
She just said again that she's be "the most electable candidate". I guess she forgot that she lost.
She also threw in her website again.
And she just mentioned her "hard working" voters. And the electoral vote.
I hate to say it, but I can't help but think that she's mildly delusional at this point.
June 3, 2008 9:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Her new angle: The primaries are over and I won, whether the results show it or not.
June 3, 2008 9:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think she is subtly suggesting that she got robbed
June 3, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
subtly?
June 3, 2008 9:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yup. All the subtlety of claiming 200,000+ Puerto Rican voters -- who can not vote in the fall -- put her ahead in the "popular vote."
As for eligible fall voters she is behind by about 200,000 votes.
June 3, 2008 10:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
The BBC is carrying Hillary speech. they probably will carry BO speech as well. The world is watching.
June 3, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rotterdam, The Netherlands is watching. Historic!
June 3, 2008 10:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary is such a small, classless, thing.
June 3, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
McAuliffe isn't doing the Clintons any favors. Not that he had a lot of credibility in the first place, but now he just seems like a deranged huckster. I wouldn't call it poignant at all, either; it's simply pathetic, with more than a whiff of Norma Desmond in the air. The writing has been on the wall for months only the Clintons and their sycophants haven't been willing to read it.
June 3, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Uh... she claimed she won this thing... . "Now we know who can win back the White House in the fall."
She wasn't talking about Barack Obama.
Fallback plan: McCain/Clinton 08.
No, I'm not a troll espousing this should happen; I'm suggesting that, based on everything we have seen her do over the course of this campaign, it is a very, very plausible option -- one that would not shock me in the least.
Saddest of all -- especially for country -- it might actually succeed.
June 3, 2008 10:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
A McCain/Clinton ticket? Seems like the GOP
already thought of that:
June 3, 2008 11:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's seen innovators designing cars that run on biofuels and electricity.
June 3, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
They make it sound like she's still running for sure. McCain made it sound like HE would offer her VP. The clip of her campaigning for him was everywhere today. I don't think Hillary's done trying to tear apart the party yet.
June 3, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh no she did not say "We stayed the course together!"
Shiver me McTimbers!
June 3, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
She literally started her speech with a lie:
South Dakota has been called for her. Her first line in the speech was therefore (paraphrased) "Thank you South Dakota, you have had the last word in this primary season!"
I guess Montana is one of those states that doesn't count.
Surprisingly, she soon thereafter started seeming like she might actually be gracious. But then the crap started spouting again. Sorry to be divisive, but the Clintons are dead to me.
June 3, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Her speech is unbelievably narcissistic.
Hillary is the tackiest person in the world.
June 3, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
what the hell...thats its?
lets congratulate senator obama and his supporters on all they've accomplished?
she didn't even mention the fact the he's the NOMINEE!
god...what the hell is she doing? she's implying shes the stronger candidate and our newly crowned nominee is, by implication, weaker.
is she trying to blow up the party by showing such disrespect to our nominee?
June 3, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes.
June 3, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
she didn't even mention the democratic party just made history by nominating barack obama
for someone who demands respect, would it be too damn much to ask that she show a little?
June 3, 2008 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
She started out well but landed right back in Classlessville.
June 3, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
None of you is invisible to me. Some of you don't count, though.
June 3, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually half of the Democratic voters in MI & FL don't count. Thank you democratic party and Barack Obama!
June 3, 2008 10:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Say, dijamo... . Michigan Voter Here:
Give that fairyland bullshit a rest, K?
That is, of course, if you are counting the 73% of uncommitteds that said they support Obama. Or the 33,000 write-ins for him that were never tabulated. Or the party-line crossovers who voted for their perception of the weakest candidate: I know they were there and did that. I know quite a few of them.
And then there are the untold numbers who stayed home (like I did) because we believed Harold Ickes, who voted on the RBC to flatline the MI and FL primaries, or Hillary when she told a NH interviewer some weeks ahead of the non-primaries that "the vote won't COUNT."
Yeah. You are right after all. The Clinton proposal to the RBC was an attempt to make me and my friends and acquaintances' votes NOT count. Maybe that's what she meant when she spoke those words.
June 3, 2008 10:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
She keeps claiming that she kept running to
allow every voter to have her say. This is the same person who said last November that she would
wrap it up, and end it all on super tuesday,
February 5th. If that had happened, as she had planned, then she would not give a shit about all the remaining states and voters. She is such a habitual liar.
June 3, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
She congratulated Obama for "all he's accomplished."
You mean winning?!?! For fuck's sake.
June 3, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
"I've been fighting for you my whole adult life...but if one of you women try to take my VP spot I WILL CUT YOU"
June 3, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
head in the sand ... or some other dark place :-)
June 3, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
The dark place. I think...
June 3, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
When's Barack scheduled to speak?
June 3, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
She wants to end the war in Iraq?! So stop funding it Senator.
June 3, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
"I, want the 18 million Americans who voted for me to be respected?"
I'm going to be sick.
June 3, 2008 9:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
She wants universal health care? Then why isn't she offering a plan to deliver it?
June 3, 2008 9:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
If she's VP (God forbid) she will try to push her Universal Healthcare plan :(
June 3, 2008 9:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd respect her if she want back to the Senate and held Obama's feet to the fire until we really achieved universal health care not universal welfare for health insurance companies.
June 3, 2008 9:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is she going to stick it Obama until she gets what she wants? Sounds like it.
June 3, 2008 9:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you want to know why I (and many other Hillary supporters) choose Hillary, this is it. I could not admire her more than I do right now.
June 3, 2008 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary is such a small, classless, thing.
June 3, 2008 9:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Her speech is nothing but bluster and half-truths.
She's a disgrace.
June 3, 2008 9:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Specifically what blusters and half truths?
June 3, 2008 9:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
How about her vile narcissism not allowing her to recognize the party nominee?
June 3, 2008 9:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
South Dakota having the last say = lie
I won the popular vote = half-truth at best
Welcome the next President of the USA = bluster/lie
If I had a transcript I could give you more.
Tonight was an historic night for this country and she ignored it completely and made it all about herself. Classless.
June 3, 2008 10:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
The obliteration of Iran with nuclear weapons.
June 3, 2008 10:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's just one -- most popular votes. Reality (in re: voters who can actually vote for a president in the fall): She is a couple hundred thou shy in that category.
June 3, 2008 10:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
None of the horrible traits Hillary showed this evening are "admirable". To say the least.
June 3, 2008 9:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not very good at admiration, then.
On the other hand, I find you damned hard to insult.
June 3, 2008 10:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yup. Ruthless narcissism combined with a pure ends-justify-means approach are certainly admirable. It has worked so well for both Bush and Cheney these last 7+ years.
June 3, 2008 10:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Great Avatar.
June 4, 2008 8:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
I believe they have medications to correct that.
June 3, 2008 10:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Brinksmanship, I say. The 3 pronged HRC strategy in place just before Ohio and Texas.
Not from my cold dead hands. This will not end until a deluge of SDs from HRC switch to Obama, Convention be damned.
Barring that, it's an attempt at a hostile takeover of the VP.
All the while, with a fallback on 2012.
June 3, 2008 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
As I posted in another thread before this masterful speech by HRC,
I would argue, that they [her surrogates] are all taking there cues from Penn (see link below). Predictable. Unless, there is a deluge of SDs from her camp coming over, she will simply concede the delegate count threshold, but not the nomination. The parsing ways of the Clintons continues. Best part, the media will lap it up. fun.
http://blogs.trb.com/news/local/longisland/politics/blog/2008/06/penn_fight_on.html
Posted by lipme - gotalife
June 3, 2008 10:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nope. The fallback is in 08, and not on the Democratic ticket. McCain/Clinton 08.
June 3, 2008 10:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is unbelievable.
June 3, 2008 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Crowd shouts "Denver, Denver, Denver". Clinton smiles ear to ear.
June 3, 2008 9:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
and the denver chants start and she does nothing to silence them...
this isn't good.
June 3, 2008 9:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is a horrible speech. Total tin ear for what a historic night this is for African Americans.
June 3, 2008 9:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did you admire her when she voted to invade Iraq?
June 3, 2008 9:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have nothing positive to say.
Good riddance.
June 3, 2008 9:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Narcissism. Plain and pure.
June 3, 2008 9:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's pimping her web site again for donations!
"Please, help me pay off my debt!"
June 3, 2008 9:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Hillary Clinton Theme Song
(to the tune of Mary Had a Little Lamb)
Me Me Me Me Me-Me-Me
Me Me Me
Me Me Me
Me Me Me Me Me-Me-Me
Me Me Me Me-Me Me
By, well, Me
June 3, 2008 9:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
You got it.
June 3, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh God, she's trying to get people to pay off her debt while she "thinks about it."
June 3, 2008 9:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I will be making no decisions tonight?
Lady Macbeth, circa 2008.
June 3, 2008 9:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
GAWD, she is an ungracious jerk.
June 3, 2008 9:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
No decisions tonight. Playing right into McCain's hand.
June 3, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Didn't see a point in watching. Glad I didn't.
June 3, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's not conceding.
June 3, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
God, dijamo - what a fool you are, if you are in fact a woman.
She is just strewing broken glass all over the path the next woman who runs for president will have to take.
If she had been gracious and a lady about all this - but no, she can't do that. So she's not behaving like an adult and neither are her supporters with all the threats.
I can't believe you think this makes women look good. It makes us look like some of the oldest and worst cliches around.
Y'all have made it 10 times harder to be an ambitious woman, IMO. It makes us look unreasonable, grasping, even hysterical, dijamo.
*sigh*
June 3, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Re: "She is just strewing broken glass all over the path woman who runs for president will have to take."
Ditto Obama's path to the WH. MSNBC is saying that she does want to be VP. Why in the world would Obama want her, after this?
June 3, 2008 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, Harold Fineman clarified that (also on MSNBC): He said that Clinton is demanding to be asked, but doesn't want the job, and the Obama doesn't want her and will only ask if she swears to not accept.
All but for the fact that you can't believe a single word that comes out of her mouth.
On the positive side: If she decided to say "yes" to stick it to him one more time, at least that would kill her campaign and any possibility of a floor fight.
That, and the fact Obama could ensure that she and Bill only attend baptisms and state funerals for the whole term.
June 3, 2008 10:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, good lord. I can't believe she's still pushing hillaryclinton.com. And she even had the extreme tackiness to use it in the same sentence as "people who showed their tangible support" or something like that.
Money money money mon-ey... mon-ey!
June 3, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
there;s something repugnant to me about a millionaire a hundred times over talking about how she gladly takes money from disabled veterans.
June 3, 2008 9:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
pulls out the violin to play for Hillary Clinton :|
June 3, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
WHA ????????? Are you kidding me !!????
No decision tonight ?? WTF ?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 3, 2008 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
WHA ????????? Are you kidding me !!????
No decision tonight ?? WTF ?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 3, 2008 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is shameful. It's cynical and it's all about her.
Can't imagine this going over as VEEP.
June 3, 2008 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
When the history is written of the night the first African American won the nomination of an American major party, Hillary will be there in all her sore losership glory.
June 3, 2008 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
What is this? The swansong of the Great Unhinged. Jesus fucking christ...I hope so!
June 3, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
And by "this" I mean the comments by the Famously Unhinged Obama Supporters.
June 3, 2008 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
For the first time, I'm really taking the mental illness theory seriously.
June 3, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tell you what, I sure hope that poor 11 year old kid gets his bike and video games back!!
June 3, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Very fitting in a second floor basement, an excellent way to avoid defeat.
June 3, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's no wonder the Clintons didn't let any copies of speech get out ahead of time. It's shameful.
June 3, 2008 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
A truly shameless display.
June 3, 2008 9:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tubbs-Jones and the rest of the flunkies lining up for a hug from the Godmother.
June 3, 2008 9:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Every black person in the country who supports her is on the stage right now.
June 3, 2008 9:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
But but but but but....Bill has an office in Harlem!
June 3, 2008 9:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I had to work late and couldn't join the party, but I am rocking my Hillary is My Homegirl t-shirt :)
June 3, 2008 10:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Denial is the first stage of grief. I do hope you find your acceptance
June 4, 2008 12:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ha! They seriously picked a venue without TVs or even Blackberry access!
And now Olbermann and Matthews are openly wondering if it was intentionally to prevent the people there from knowing that Obama has crossed 2118.
June 3, 2008 9:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is what they learned from the innertubes. Not how we can join how the conversation.
How we can control and block it.
Disgraceful.
June 3, 2008 10:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, now that THAT nastiness is out of the way, we'll have the Main Event from Presumptive Nominee Sen Barak Obama.
June 3, 2008 9:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jesus. I'll be glad when this thing is over just so the Hillary Haters will shut the fuck up. Sixty-seven "she sucks I hate her" comments. Gross.
June 3, 2008 9:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pay attention to the message. You obviously do not get it. If that many people are upset, is it possible, just maybe it might be the unprofessional campaign Sen Clinton chose to run?
Hear the words. You do not know the messengers from Adam & Steve!
June 3, 2008 10:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah. The message. Clinton is classless, shameful, mentally ill, an ungracious jerk, the tackiest person in the world, etc., etc. I get it. It's all anyone seems to say in the comments on TPM. It's like reading the comments on a Freepers forum. Kinda sick.
June 3, 2008 10:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's not mentally ill!
June 3, 2008 11:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tomorrow it will probably be "Shame on you, Barack Obama!" We have met the enemy, and it us (she).
June 3, 2008 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know we all understand that our boy has done the job, but I've been spending some time over at OpenLeft and we've been discussing the reasons that Mrs. Clinton's women are so angry.
Go over there and check out what we've been talking about. I'd like to think that it would help you guys curtail your snide here.
And keep in mind that Mrs. Clinton is winning S. Dakota right now.
June 3, 2008 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
lol, the pundits are at a loss for words, trying to analyze her speech.
June 3, 2008 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
And in lighter and more important news ...
SEN. BARACK OBAMA OF ILLINOIS IS THE 2008 DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!!!!!
June 3, 2008 10:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, but she's acting like she's the nominee.
June 3, 2008 10:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is truly pathetic coming from a family I used to admire back in the 90's. Sorry Hill and Bill you just lost my admiration and I'm from Missouri. I noticed they played "Simply the Best" as she was going off what a crock of crap that is. She has lost all my respect tonight with this crap. I guess she truly wants to shred the democrat party if she can't get the nod. I thought she had more respect for this party than that, guess I was horribly wrong. I should have realized months ago she would do anything (include shred the party) to get the nod.
June 3, 2008 10:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Megalomania, pure and simple.
June 3, 2008 10:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Pig: Unhinged...pure and simple-minded.
June 3, 2008 10:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
And there is our Nominee!
June 3, 2008 10:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Someone on CNN just said, "Hillary did everything but offer Obama the Vice Presidency."
Pretty funny.
June 3, 2008 10:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Poignant claims if you love the soon to be announced McCain/Clinton ticket.
June 3, 2008 10:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Unfortunately, I think she's capable of that.
June 3, 2008 10:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama is as classy in victory as Clinton is classless in defeat.
June 3, 2008 10:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
How true. Magnanimity vs. Megalomania. A matter of style in the end (yeah right). :)
June 3, 2008 10:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
And had Obama been defeated, he would not deliver what was essentially, an "I was robbed" speech.
June 3, 2008 10:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Hillary 08 is the most shameful Democratic Party Presidential campaign behavior I have seen in over 40 years of following politics. The primary scheduling broken promise,the flattery of a Republican opponent to court his followers in the primaries, the use of Republican lies (remember when the Clinton and RNC websites both tried to tell the University of Chicago how to describe its faculty) and worst of all sending campaign staff to the media under deep background asking them to remind their viewers and readers that Sen. Obama is black. I have happily voted and donated for women in Congress, I would be thrilled to have a truth-telling non hate mongering woman as my President. But a woman who has supported the worst policies of the worst President ever? No.
June 3, 2008 10:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe she's considering a Lieberman?
June 3, 2008 10:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Terry's next interview goes something like this: "Their failure in this regard is abysmal. They want to tell the world changes thought - as a matter of fact, they do not respect the world, they want to tell taxpayers and the domestic public to keep them deceived. We will embroil them, confuse them and keep them in the quagmire. They have begun to tell more lies so that they might continue with the perpetration of their crimes. May they be accursed."
Or maybe: "We have destroyed 2 tanks, fighter planes, 2 helicopters and their shovels - We have driven them back."
June 3, 2008 10:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Reading this board is like reading LGF. Again.
June 3, 2008 11:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
poignant scene?? I found it phony and sort of sad.
The huge crowd that the networks kept panning around during Obama's speech was incredible.
McCain's speech gave me a friggin headache.
June 3, 2008 11:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
folks, the Hillary 08 campaign is all but officially... OVER. thank gawd.
June 3, 2008 11:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
poignant |ˈpoinyənt|
adjective
evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret : a poignant reminder of the passing of time.
• keenly felt : the sensation of being back at home was most poignant in the winter.
• [archaic] sharp or pungent in taste or smell.
The latter.
June 3, 2008 11:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
I see that the crucifixion of Hillary by Obama supporters still continues even after he clinches the nomination. Seriously, considering she won 48% of all democtratic votes, she deserves some respect. It is a historic event for a woman candidate to have come so far and at the very least she deserves some respect.
June 3, 2008 11:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
As an Obama supporter and someone who is fed up to here with Hillary Clinton I agree with you Blue Indian. But now, she needs to GET OUT if she wants a democrat in the WH in 2008. Her speech tonight was an attempt to diminish what Barack Obama achieved. For instance, after Barack Obama has clinched the nomination, Terry McAuliffe announces her as "the next president of the Untited States of America"??!! That's disrespectful and lacks even common decency. And Obama supporters are supposed to be solely responsible for party unity?? Both sides will have to reach out to bridge the gap.
June 4, 2008 12:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
Blue - Hillary's speech was a disgrace this evening. I'm all for uniting the party, and I do my part by trying to be civil to Hillary supporters. But Hillary deserves heaps of criticism for her behavior. Politics is a team sport, and she is not acting like it. Shame on her. Shame.
June 4, 2008 12:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Respect is a two way street. Hillary showed none.
June 4, 2008 6:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
Dear Lord, Greg. You really are unhinged.
June 3, 2008 11:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
I always wondered what the fuck was wrong with the Democratic party as I came of age in the late 1980s, watched Bubba triangulate his way to power in the '90s as the rest of the party all but collapsed, and recoiled at everything that occurred between 2000 and 2005.
Now, it's crystal clear what was wrong, as so ably embodied tonight by one H.R. Clinton and her minions. This nomination process has been a purge, an exorcism, and perhaps even a (re)birth. Democrats are finally shaking off the cynicism, the soullessness, and the defeatist demons that have been tearing at them for decades.
It's a new day. The path before us is wide open and beckoning. Take one more look at what's been extricated from our collective skin -- then let's do what we've always known we were meant to do. Thank you, Barack Obama, for leading the way.
June 4, 2008 12:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
so i here the hispanic democratic congresswoman has stated hispanics will NOT support OBAMA in 2008. LOL that they will only support him if she is VP.
i told you folks you are about to see a large group of people walk away from your candidate. as i said before the only way he would get my vote is if she is on the ticket and i know she will keep the great pretender in check.
if not...hail to Mc Amnesty in 2008. i will make sure to vote all democrats to help elect enough to keep mccain in line!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
there's light at the end of this bogus journey.
June 4, 2008 12:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
after being a card carrying democrate for 15 years i have just changed my party to independent.
let's party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 4, 2008 12:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
concern troll alert!
Anyone who saw McCain's anemic speech dissing Obama can only admit or revel in the fact that he's the next Bob Dole.
Hillary wouldn't do anything more for a McCain ticket, that one of Smilin' Bob's little pills couldn't provide.
Hillary isn't about to hitch her wagon to a falling star like McCain. Unfortunately, because of last night's historic denial and avoidance on her part, the VP slot might not be hers on EITHER ticket.
If her and her hubby's ambitions dictate the future, next we will see a Hill/Bill '08(I) ticket.
Which brings up the oft unasked question about the pair..."Which one's on top?"
June 4, 2008 9:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
tank..
a couple words..GET REAL.
dems will be a party in the minority forever without those ole dems your slaming.
lol you folks truly take the cake.
June 4, 2008 12:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
I can't figure out which movie line fits Hill better at this point. I've got it down to
I'm ready for my closeup
and
I'm not going to be IGNORED here.
I'm leaning towards the latter now.
June 4, 2008 1:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary keeps saying that "every vote counts" so please, tell her that the Super Delegates cast their "vote" to remove her from the race!
June 4, 2008 1:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe Hillary is going to run as an independant for president, and has been laying the groundwork for this all along if she lost. Since Obama supporters would have been urging him to run as an independant if he lost, why not?
She would probably win easily, taking her own supporters from Obama and more from McCain. She would lose the black vote but Obama loses half the Democratic party votes anyway.
June 4, 2008 3:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't know if she'd run as an independent. But you can be *damn sure* she's thought about it. If the president "must be a Democrat" in her view, she can just proclaim herself an "Independent Democrat," in the proud Lieberman tradition.
June 4, 2008 4:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
dijamo = awkward white guy. homegirls? what is this, in living color? (i know, they were the flygirls.)
June 4, 2008 7:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
It is extremely common for candidates NOT to concede on the actual night they lose. Edward's didn't. Why all this reaction to Hillary. Give the woman who has worked non-stop for the past year, a few days to concede.
June 4, 2008 8:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
God help Barack if he chooses her. Can you imagine him announcing a major policy initiative and finding that someone stuck a microphone in front of Bill Clinton. Bill would publicly trash anything Barack put forward just to keep the media's spotlight on himself. Hillary didn't lose the nomination all by herself. Bill kept her from getting it by opening his mouth much too often. He should insist that Hillary divorce Bill before he gives any consideration to putting her on the ticket.
June 4, 2008 12:30 PM | Reply | Permalink