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Hillary Just Started Talking....
Good start--she's praising Obama. "Ain't no mountain high enough" has me intrigued, though....
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Comments (55)
No concession?
June 3, 2008 9:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, and she just threw shit in his face...who will be the strongest candidate. She is fucking disgusting.
June 3, 2008 9:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh dear... she's still pushing the "I won the popular vote" meme. (I'm so elitist, I say "meme").
June 3, 2008 9:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is going downhill QUICK....
June 3, 2008 9:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
She is not quitting. She really is a sad sad sad person.
June 3, 2008 9:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, no, no....
She's being gracious to her supporters. Please don't misunderstand her.
She's talking "Party" now.
Did you hear her say, "Every little girl -- and boy -- can be told by their parents now, that they can be President".
She's being beautifully gracious. And I'm very proud of her.
June 3, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Okay... okay, I won't let panic deafen me. Thanks, LisB. This IS good, positive stuff, once I go beyond fear....
June 3, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
She has not gone far enough yet, even as she says she wants to take back the white house in November.
Is she seriously going to avoid directing her supporters to support Barack? It sure as hell sounds like it.
June 3, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
"I've seen ...", "I see ...", etc, etc. She keeps talking about HERSELF as the caring, wise observer. Now she's making demands. Like it's her army, not the party's.
June 3, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I do not think she is going to do the right thing tonight. I am not saying she will do the wrong thing, but she is somewhere in the mucky middle.
June 3, 2008 9:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
I disagree. She continues to drive the wedge.
June 3, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
"We stayed the course together." Again, there's that confusion b/t Clinton and Republicans. PLEASE, Hillary--we need you! Turn away from the dark side!
June 3, 2008 9:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
No way she would accept her role as a traditional VP...
June 3, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ok, we have yet to hear from Obama. He will make her look what she is, a small, egotistical, lying, pandering, phony. I wanted to like her tonight, if maybe for a minute. Ain't gonna happen.
June 3, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
"I am committed to uniting our Party"...
Don't diss the lady, she's doing good.
June 3, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're right--now she's turning on the Republicans. GOOD. Thanks, Hill.
June 3, 2008 9:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dear God, is she about to go thermonuclear?
June 3, 2008 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's doing like Edwards -- dropping out while reminding all of America what we need the most.
I commend her, highly, for it.
June 3, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
LisB: I commend you for your efforts, but the lady is just not trustworthy.
June 3, 2008 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
So what do you want???? You don't want gracious, you don't want her to concede--you want to totally crush and kill her for having the nerve to challenge your preferred candidate. And who the hell are you anyway??? You people are disgusting!
June 3, 2008 10:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am an American. Who are you?
June 3, 2008 11:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good, Democratic ideals, here. And yet we're all waiting for the other shoe to drop. It sure isn't boring, huh?
June 3, 2008 9:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Her other shoe ain't gonna drop off until she gets home to Chappaqua tonight and takes off her first one.
May she stand there, in her stockinged feet, and feel that she's done her best.
Can I get an Amen?
June 3, 2008 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Polls close in Montana in 13 minutes. If you ask me, she's running out the clock. Any bets she concludes at 1 minute before the hour?
June 3, 2008 9:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
All I hear is ME, ME, ME : : :
Now the crowd is chanting DENVER, DENVER, DENVER!!!
June 3, 2008 9:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Amen? (I'm just so gun shy).
This really is Clinton at her best. But I can't fully enjoy it until she concludes.
Where DO we go from here?
June 3, 2008 9:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
No Decisions.
June 3, 2008 9:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
"I will be making no decisions tonight."
That tears it.
June 3, 2008 9:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have had it with her. She is sticking it to Barack. She could have gone out with some class.
June 3, 2008 9:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gimme the VP Barack!!
June 3, 2008 9:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
She won't concede, not even now. Someone please call van Helsing.
June 3, 2008 9:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Crowd Cheer Wildly : : :
June 3, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Okay. She says to go to her website. I can only hope that the OBAMA supporters who request that she throw her support behind Obama do it politely. We really COULD use her support.
June 3, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, she won South Dakota? Let's give her a "You Go Girl" for beating the two-month-old polls we've all been watching like idiots.
I want her on our Supreme Court, or as Secretary of Health and Family Welfare (or whatever it's called).
She did great tonight.
www.HillaryClinton.com
Go and tell her how honored you are that she ran.
June 3, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
LisB - You're a saint. :)
June 3, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
LisB - You're a saint. :)
June 3, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bullshit, Lis. She's still undermining him, prolonging the resentment and uncertainty. No props for Obama, none for her.
June 3, 2008 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
No offense, Ripper, because I love your posts, but she did congratulate Obama in the beginning of her speech.
Everything after that seemed to be a concession, only in Hillary-speak, which, as we all know, is hard to understand sometimes.
She is conceding, I promise you guys. She's just going out like the fighting lady she promised to be.
I'm buying it. Can't you?
June 3, 2008 10:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, Lis, this is more jockeying for position, more dragging this out as ONLY she can. She doesn't care about the party, she cares about herself and her image. She even thanked South Dakota for having "the last word" of the campaign, as if Obama's later win in Montana was irrelevant or not the real last word. Her speech was so much about her that it gave the shaft to Obama at several points, demeaning his Montana win, his popular vote total, the fact that he just WON the nomination! Jeeeeesus! She could not have been more UN-gracious without getting tossed out of the party!
June 3, 2008 10:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
She deserves kudos for winning SD, but I can't be happy about it. Obama would have a stronger position of strength if he could have won the last two. I know why he pivoted to fighting McCain some weeks ago, but still....
June 3, 2008 10:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
She just mentioned the website. Hardly any mention of OBAMA, the DEMOCRATIC nominee. She really is not a team player. No VP for she. Bye bye HRC.
June 3, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fuck her. Fuck her to hell.
June 3, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree. I say screw her.
June 3, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
How many times can she say ". . . the 18 million people who voted for me . . ." ???
June 3, 2008 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, I think she still has some "18 million people who voted for me" in her.
I LOVE Olbermann's comment that, 2 stories underground, her supporters there couldn't be following the news that Obama has already won the nomination.
June 3, 2008 9:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
KateO, give me your hat. Let it go, babylove, let it go.
Hillary is doing the right thing tonight. PLEASE, play nice with her supporters, and stop going after Lalo's hat.
June 3, 2008 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
I gave up on Lalo's hat when you told me to stop hunting. I am too bitter right now. I wish she had made this less about herself and more about how momentous this is. For God's sake, where is her sense of how momentous this is for the history of this country? Sorry, can't give it up right now. I am tired of giving in to her supporters who supported her un-Democratic party tactics. Maybe that's where you and I diverge. I have always been a Dem, so her tactics were excruciatingly painful. As a relatively new Dem, maybe you just can't appreciate that, and I don't mean to be insulting, I really don't. She just abandoned so many principles that Dems hold near and dear...really so sad. She did not acknowledge that Obama won. For me, that was too low. Just too low.
June 3, 2008 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
She was in an underground lair where Obama hadn't won until they get out of the news blackout to the world where he has.
June 3, 2008 10:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, she's doing the 9/11 thing. Lovely capper.
June 3, 2008 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
How is this the right thing? She could have said that she wishes for her supporters to back Barack.
June 3, 2008 9:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gimme the VP Barack!! Gimme-gimme-gimme!
June 3, 2008 9:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
EGO, EGO, EGO, GO, GO, GO : : : : : : :
June 3, 2008 9:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
If anyone's watching MSNBC, I believe Keith Olbermann just announced that no one in Hillary's audience was allowed to have a cell phone nor access to the latest news about Obama's delegate count over the last two hours.
This tells me a) Hillary did not want a bunch of booing when she mentioned Obama's name and b) she wanted to go out in NYC with her supporters behind her.
June 3, 2008 9:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama is supposed to start speaking at 10:00 (which I believe is 4 minutes from now) -- whoever starts that list, tell us here and on TM's thread about McCain's speech, so we can find you!
June 3, 2008 9:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
One more thing: If Hillary had said, tonight, "I'm taking this to the convention!!!", I could understand the anger. I'd be standing right alongside you feeling the anger.
But tonight, she is asking for her time alone with Obama, to talk things through, and I respect her for going out like a champ without making any demands, nor any praise just yet.
It's time to move on. It's time for our party to get united again. I think Hillary's speech tonight helped tremendously.
I'm just sayin'.
Peace, and good night.
June 3, 2008 10:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
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