WORLD NEWS TRUST: Dem Convention -- Day 2: She Wore Gold and She Was Golden (Mary Lyon)

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(World News Trust) -- All the blue and white “Unity” signs didn’t make nearly as vivid an impression as did the Lady in Gold on Night Number Two in Denver. Hillary Clinton Night at the Democratic Convention was actually the first night we’ve seen any real red meat served up in prime time. And no woman in there was a vegetarian on this night. Neither were the men present, of course, but Hillary Clinton’s message to many of her ardent devotees -- many of them women who were heartbroken that Obama and not she will be their nominee -- was as clear as could be. And hardly medium-rare.

That was practically all you could hear all day long, though, as the hours counted down to Senator Clinton’s main-event speech. Media people were scrounging all morning and afternoon to help stir things up and pick any zit they could find on the convention complexion. They stood like seven-year-olds in the back of the playground, all clustered in a tight circle together, elbowing each other for more room, and shouting in rhythm “Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!” They almost taunted and dared, even nearly pleaded with the Barack versus Hillary camps they wanted to see squaring off within the circle. And they came away with quite a different story to report, much to some of their disappointment, I suspect.

One of Hillary’s signature lines of the evening, when she was able to get a word in edgewise amid the roaring ovations was “NO way, NO how, NO McCain,” but for the press it might as well have been “NO way, NO how, NO Disunity.” And that’s exactly what was needed.

This woman ran the race expertly and passed the baton as though she were the captain of a world-class relay team on its way to the gold medal. By the end, even the naysayers had to admit that Hillary had made the case, convincing her followers that it wasn’t for her they were really working, campaigning and eventually voting. She asked them flat-out -- “were you in this campaign just for me?” Then she challenged them to remember the causes of the many she encountered along her own campaign trail -- the young Marine, the mom with cancer, the family trying to get by on minimum wage, and “all the people in this country who feel invisible.” She drove the point home that what they were all in the campaign for -- was bigger than she was, or any of them were. It was for the future, their future, their childrens’ future, the future their parents and grandparents hoped for, and our collective future as Americans. She called for everyone to remember that “we are on the same team, and none of us can afford to sit on the sidelines.”

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[BlooInBloo]

1. I thought it was orange?

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3. Me too, it looks orange to me. I just watched it

again on youtube and it looks orange. Whatever it was, I think she looked great in it.

[madaboutharry]

2. The only thing

I disagree with here is this: The press does not behave like seven year olds. They, in fact, behave like two year olds.