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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I don't understand why there's so much space devoted to the divisiveness. To describe people not supporting Obama and then have this (To Be fair, many) sentence at the end seemed disingenuous to me. It just feels like a manufactured story written by people with agendas.
To put this in context, I'm one of those who never liked her. Tonight she hit a home run. She sold me. If she'd been this person six months ago she'd be the nominee. Even her voice has changed. She's lost the harsh, metallic quality that used to grate on my teeth. Tonight she won me over. She did exactly what she needed to do. She managed to exceed everyone's expectations and get the job done for the Democrats.
Clueless (deliberately so? or no?) Joan, Hillary gave a shout-out to Riverdaughter (HRC blogger at The Confluence) when she mentioned, 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit', and what do you think she meant when she kept repeating, 'When you hear the dogs barking, KEEP GOING! When you see the torches, KEEP GOING!...' Whom did you think this was addressed to? What was the significance of her beautiful orange/gold pantsuit? Why did she not mention at all how 'ready' or 'fit' Obama would be for the presidency? But she nicely enumerated and explained her own campaign platform proposals once again to her audience?
Hee, hee, and do you think it was a mere coincidence that James Carville was wearing a nice pair of PUMA sneakers today, too?
LOL! Hillary is one smart, brilliant, compassionate woman, and the underlying messages in her grand speech tonight are lost only on the non-PUMAs. She gave a most presidential speech while giving a nod to Obama as nominee. Let's see if and how Obama tops the finest speech of the season yet.
You say Hillary employed humor?
Thank god.
Better that than a dour humored PUMA.
And she still lacks the understanding of cadence, the use of speechifying coloratura, appropriate pausing when the crowd is screetching, etc.
But who cares, I believe she delivered the words that her ardent followers needed to hear.
I flipped over briefly to Fox News to hear their remarks, and sure enough, those who said that her speech was centered on herself seemed to miss the whole point. Of course she had to make her comments revolve around her candidacy... she was reaching out to those who followed her ardently, and ask them to "allow" themselves continue to follow the other Democrat who mostly mirrored her concerns.
Well done.
Hillary Clinton gave a speech the likes of which I have rarely heard. Passion, purpose, heartfelt championing of the underdog...it was all there. She IS Presidential material. Anyone else would have caved under the pressure to do the impossible: please everyone.
To me, she embodies the true spirit of the Democrats (at least those Democrats who don't bow and scrape to the false god of "centrist" values.) She took this speech to the hoop. Vote for Obama I will, absolutely. But I will never relinquish a burning hope that one day Hillary Clinton will assume her rightful place in the White House.
Hillary seems more mature than Bill Clinton who had hoped to live in the white house once again.
Its time for the divisive supporters of Hillary to support Obama in his quest.
It would take a lot of effort to defeat McCain: The Dems are up against the formidable electoral machine which has never faced defeat so far.
The PUMAs are short-sighted. Much like France's politicians were during 1939-1940. They don't realize the brilliance of Karl Rove and his ability to snatch victory and make Gingrich's vision of "Pepertual Majority" a truth.
Hillary has realized it, Bill Clinton is yet to realize it and PUMAs never will get it.
Even a "rock-star" like Obama has to struggle closely against the Media, the Corporatocracy and the Big Oil that sponsors McCain.
HILLARY’S “RINGING CALL FOR UNITY?”
The Reuters people, and Joan Walsh, must have watched a different Hillary speech Tuesday night. They headlined their article, “Hillary Delivers Ringing Call for Democratic Unity.” (http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1928744420080827)
Excuse me? If that was a “ringing call” at 3 A M it was answered by hubby, Bill, who doesn’t even plan to attend to attend the Obamassiah’s coronation on Thursday and he just hung up.(http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/26/source-bill-clinton-will-not-attend-obamas-invesco-speech/)
Solely in the interests of his safety, I’ve warned the Obamassiah before to beware the Clintons. Check out all those dead people they’ve known, from their Arkansas days to their White House days, from those dead Arkansas State Troopers and Jim MacDougal to Vince Foster and Ron Brown. For a macabre compilation of those who have loved and not loved the Clintons see http://members.tripod.com/~rcjustice/pres.html and Gregg Jackson’s book, Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies.
In a word, Obama, to paraphrase an old butter commercial, “It’s not nice to mess with Mother Nature or with the Clintons.” And, it’s not healthy.
Hillary did what Hil had to do in her speech at the Pepsi Center, and not an iota more. As Marc Antony said at Caesar’s funeral, she did not come to praise Obama, she came to bury him. Okay, that’s another paraphrase but not too far off the mark.
Hillary stands to benefit by a good whupping of Obama on November 4th. If he loses,...
(For the rest of this article, please see http://genelalor.com/.)
Wow. She looked great and sounded even better.
The Republican trolls under the guise of unhappy Democrats are in force with their talking points.
But pardon me if I'm not conviced by your "read between the lines" analysis.
She basically said that the future of America and the future of our children hinged on electing Obama over McCain. If that's not an endorsement, I don't know what is. Face it, she just denied you a vital talking point.
Thanks, Joan...as a Hillary backer, and an Obama skeptic, between Michelle's warm and affectionate portrayal of her family and the Obamas' adorable daughters, and then Hillary's slam dunk tonight, a stray Dem has come home...Hillary was wonderful, and she hit all the right notes...now can we end this pursuit of PUMAs and stoking divisiveness amongst the Dems? (Not you, Joan, the mainstream media).
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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