This is how the Hillary speech looked from where I was standing. You definitely had a better view of her watching on TV than I did. Still, being in the hall is thrilling. Since the party has been operating for a couple of months as if Obama is the nominee, we forget that about half the delegates were Hillary people. The roar of affection for her from the crowd was intense.
I see some Obama fans are annoyed that Hillary didn’t speak to his character, judgment or qualifications. I sympathize. That would have made an excellent speech perfect.
But those folks should look at the miraculous way unity happened on the Republican side. The non-McCain voters, including conservative Christians, hated him just as much as the Hillary voters do Obama. But they’ve closed ranks around McCain much faster. And it’s NOT because they’ve discovered things about McCain they hadn’t known. It’s because they became they focused on Obama. McCain may be annoying, but Obama is the anti-Christ.
Hillary, for what it’s worth, was infinitely more generous than one of the heroes of Monday night, Ted Kennedy. I covered the 1980 Democratic convention, when he ran against Jimmy Carter. Carter had to practically chase him around the stage to grab him for a unity photo.
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posted August 27, 2008 at 6:41 am
Steven, didn’t Hillary just calculate the bare minimum she could say in support of Obama and still get away with it — and didn’t she say just that much and no more?
And while I’m at it, how can you not realize that the Democratic plank is more pro-abortion than it has been? Any “pro-lifers” who think they are getting even a crumb are truly deceived!
Obama’s record on born alive has been fact checked and NRLC was right and he was not telling the truth. But fact check couldn’t bring itself to admit that letting a baby die in the corner is infanticide–if the baby is not “viable.”
Since when is killing someone who is going to die fairly soon not killing? Sheesh!
posted August 27, 2008 at 11:13 am
Will you get real. The Republicans for all their bluster are no more pro life than the man in the moon.
Hilary did what she had to do. She spoke to her people and told them that America could not afford another for years of Bush oil policy and failed economy. So she said to vote for Obama.
Yes, she would have loved to be in Obama’s place, but she knows she is not. She said if you believed in what she stood for, vote for Obama. If you voted for McCain, you were voting for the past and not the future.
That was the theme of the day; Live for the future and not in the past. I listened on C-Span to all the speakers and I heard the stories from the mouths of those who faced the failures of the McCain policies and the rejections of Republican leadership. The average people who lost jobs, health benefit and wage discrimination at the hands of the Republican failed policies and the courts pro business opinions. I agree with all the speakers, including Hilary Clinton, we can not afford four more years of the same. EVER AGAIN!