Hillary: " I want to start tonight by congratulating Sen. Obama and his supporters"

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"on the extraordinary race that they have run. Sen. Obama has inspired so many Americans to care about politics, and inspired so many more to get involved. And our party and our democracy is more vibrant as a result. So we are grateful *applause* and it has been an honor to contest these primaries with him just as it is an honor to call him my friend. And tonight I would like all of us to take a moment to recognize him and his supporters for all they have accomplished. *applause* *cheers*


http://youtube.com/watch?v=efdWnWiv8q8

[slinkerwink]

1. That sounds like a winner complimenting a loser. Should be the other way around.

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4. I think your hate blinds you.

[cbc5g]

8. Actually it really does sound like the speech a winner would give to a loser n/t

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15. People see what they want to see, I guess.

There is no safe place with Obama supporters, it seems. Hillary is evil. She is the devil incarnate. Nothing she could have said or done, from the start of the primaries through tonight, would have satisfied some. Some want blood. Some want humiliation. They wont get it. Not from me. Not from her.

I like that.

[EFerrari]

17. That's pretty extreme language.

Have you never ever seen a graceful concession speech?

And, while people do see what they want to see, it should start to alarm you when you don't see what everyone else does see.

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27. I don't base my opinions on what other people tell me I should think.

She wasn't going to cede victory to Obama tonight. She didn't. But she did praise him and his supporters. It's right there. She did.

And the audience cheered those remarks.

Says a lot, imho.

Other people can whine and cry that she didn't say the words that they wanted to hear. Doesn't change my perspective at all.

[EFerrari]

28. Fair enough. n/t

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30. thanks nt

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

26. her congratulations are a lot like her "apologies"

they aren't sincere and they aren't what they portend to be.

Her congratulations is inappropriate - it should be for his win.

Her apologies (about assassination comments) were not to all of those harmed,
and were not real apologies. "I apologize if" is not an apology.

[Raine]

12. So the stating obvious is hate...

I guess in Hillaryland it is. :-(

[NanceGreggs]

22. It's not about hate ...

... it's about a candidate who lost, in no uncertain terms, and chose to ignore the fact that our Party has a nominee - and focus on herself instead.

As one CNN pundit described her speech, "She did everything but offer Obama the VP spot on her ticket."

There's a lot to be said for those who accept a loss gracefully. There is nothing to be said about those who refuse to face reality.

[americanstranger]

5. Bingo, Slink. the missing word here is

nominee.

Once she's down by 300+ delegates, maybe she'll acknowledge what she should have acknowledged on that podium.

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[Raine]

10. EXACTLY nt

[ShortnFiery]

2. Feigned sincerity and NO acknowlegement of him being the Presumptive Nominee.

HRC has no grace. :thumbsdown:

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Um, how about congratulations on his historic VICTORY?

Oh, right, can't say that, because that would come dangerously close to acknowledging the truth.

[Lakerstan]

6. With friends like that....

:wow:

[writes3000]

7. Okay, Obama supporters - How about this?

Hillary went on early tonight because she planned that Obama wouldn't have the SDs yet to be able to claim the nomination.

He did get the nomination. She just went with her speech as planned. Make sense?

[americanstranger]

13. I can't buy it.

You know that Clinton's people were watching the SD totals all day long. They knew that four of their own SDs switched from Clinton to Obama.

But I have a question for you - why did the Clinton camp pick a venue where there were no TVs and no cell service? Maybe they didn't want the people in that crowd to find out what they knew - that Obama had clinched the nomination by the time Hil went on stage?

Woulda put a damper on things if that crowd had known the truth, eh?

- as

[writes3000]

21. EXACTLY! She didn't want to concede tonight...

She begged SDs to wait. They DIDN'T.

So let's see what happens in the next 48 hours.

The party WILL force her hand - HARD.

[Kool Kitty]

25. That's what I was thinking.

That was very strange.

[PoliticalAmazon]

18. It's just more of the same Bush tactics. It doesn't redeem her--it makes her more like Bush Jr....

Her speech verified everything negative said about her.

Start with "she cares more about herself than the party and the country" to "she is obviously insane."

We need to get rid of her. That should be our focus.

We don't have the luxury of coddling her, begging her to be honorable and do the right thing.

She's already shown she is so far down the Bush/Rove rat-hole that she no longer knows "the right thing."

We have to get rid of her. That is the only hope for our Party.

[papapi]

9. and this is her show of support for the presumptive nominee??? I think I missed something....

...oh no I didn't. It's politics as usual with the Clintons. I wonder what kind of gaffe Bill will come up with tomottow?

[Condem]

11. Sorry, skip

This one will go down in the annals of history. " What does Hillary want?" The fuckin worst.

[EFerrari]

14. Pallid and embarrassing for her. Sorry. n/t

[Spider Jerusalem]

16. No conciliation there; no 'I would like to congratulate Senator Obama on securing the nomination'.

It sounded like she was giving a VICTORY SPEECH from an alternate dimension. I was literally not able to believe what I was hearing. And as always, it was amazingly self-centred. 'I, I, I, me, me, me'.

[lapfog_1]

19. At 5:45 into this

they cut to a buff young white guy in a T-shirt... he has almost, but not quite, shaved his head.

Watch what he does at that point.

I don't think Obama will be getting this person's vote.

[Hieronymus]

20. Her speech was disgusting. Obama's was wonderful.

[PseudoIntellect]

23. "None of you, none of you is invisible to me. You never have been."

This can't be true. Her plan was to win by February 5th and push everyone out with the influence of 200 early superdelegates.

[Yotun]

24. She is not congratulating him for his victory. Why is that so hard to see?

[RiverStone]

29. She never mentioned he won...

Or that in any way he is our party's chosen nominee.

What a wasted opportunity.

She could have built bridges, instead she built more divisiveness.

[anigbrowl]

31. Actually, this is how it's supposed to be done...

This is a classy tribute, by any standard.

"Senator Hillary Clinton has made history in this campaign.

She has made history not just because she’s a woman who has done what no woman has done before, but because she is a leader who inspires millions of Americans with her strength, her courage, and her commitment to the causes that brought us here tonight.

I congratulate her on her victory in South Dakota, and I congratulate her on the race that she has run throughout this contest.

We’ve certainly had our differences over the last 16 months. But as someone who’s shared a stage with her many times, I can tell you that what gets Hillary Clinton up in the morning — even in the face of tough odds — is exactly what sent her and Bill Clinton to sign up for their first campaign in Texas all those years ago, what sent her to work at the Children’s Defense Fund and made her fight for health care as first lady, what led her to the United States Senate and fueled her barrier-breaking campaign for the presidency: an unyielding desire to improve the lives of ordinary Americans, no matter how difficult the fight may be.

And you can rest assured that when we finally win the battle for universal health care in this country — and we will win that fight — she will be central to that victory.

When we transform our energy policy and lift our children out of poverty, it will be because she worked to help make it happen.

Our party and our country are better off because of her, and I am a better candidate for having had the honor to compete with Hillary Rodham Clinton."