SubscribeAP: Clinton Says Election Isn’t About Her
From the DNC’s lickspittle minions at the Associated Press:
Clinton says election isn’t about her
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer Wed Aug 27
DENVER - Hillary Rodham Clinton had a simple message Tuesday for her still loyal supporters: This election isn’t about her.
The former first lady ceded the nomination that was almost hers in a prime-time speech to Democratic delegates, closing another chapter in a long, improbable political career that took her from supportive spouse to political powerhouse.
She was warmly embraced by delegates split between herself and Barack Obama in the primary. Any who were still angry over her loss were drowned out in applause when she opened her speech by declaring herself “a proud supporter of Barack Obama.”
She exhorted her backers — “my sisterhood of the traveling pantsuits,” she called them — to remember who was most important in this campaign.
“I want you to ask yourselves: Were you in this campaign just for me?” she said. She urged them instead to remember Marines who have served their country, single mothers, families barely getting by on minimum wage and other struggling Americans…
Clinton spoke on the eve of the delegate roll call in which both she and Obama will be nominated for president. But under a deal between the two camps, only some delegates will get the opportunity to cast a historic vote for either a woman or a black man before the split decision will be cut off in favor of unanimous consent for Obama.
Advisers to Clinton and Obama sent a joint letter Tuesday night instructing state delegation chairs to distribute vote tally sheets to delegates Wednesday and return them by 4 p.m. local time, just as the vote is scheduled to get under way.
The letter said Clinton would have one nominating speech and two seconding speeches, followed by Obama’s nominating speech and three seconding speeches — totaling no more than 15 minutes for each candidate. Then the roll call will begin, said the letter signed by Obama senior adviser Jeff Berman, Clinton senior adviser Craig Smith and convention secretary Alice Germond.
Still, many details were unclear — which states would get a chance to vote, whether Clinton herself would cut it off in acclamation for Obama and if floor demonstrations would be tolerated.
The dealmaking and lack of direction left Clinton supporters frustrated. Clinton fueled confusion by refusing to publicly instruct her delegates how to vote, though she said she’ll back Obama when the time comes. She planned to meet with her delegates Wednesday…
All the Clintons, a longtime royal family of Democratic politics, were on hand to pass the torch to Obama. Clinton was introduced by her daughter Chelsea, while her husband watched from a box seat above the Arkansas delegation. Not everyone with a ticket could get in to hear Clinton after fire marshals declared the hall filled to capacity.
The convention hall was brimming with delegates wearing Clinton gear. There were Hillary T-shirts, buttons and stickers. Some delegates brought signs promoting Clinton for president. Many wore white shirts to mark the 88th anniversary of women’s suffrage.
“My mother was born before women could vote,” Clinton reminded them. “But in this election my daughter got to vote for her mother for president.” …
Party leaders said they feared a nationally televised floor demonstration Wednesday that would underscore party divisions.
“It seems to be a little more of a problem than I anticipated,” former Democratic Party chairman Don Fowler told the AP. “All you need is 200 people in that crowd to boo and stuff like that and it will be replayed 900 times. And that’s not what you want out of this.”
Somehow we didn’t get the same message as Ms. Pickler got from Hillary’s speech. But then again we don’t work for the Democrat Party.
Crew members compare the colors of a pant suits on the podium at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, August 26, 2008.
That Hillary and her handlers picked the pantsuit color that would stand out the most would tend to indicated that, yes, it was all about her.
But as we have noted before, this is merely a Potemkin Village of a convention:
[U]nder a deal between the two camps, only some delegates will get the opportunity to cast a historic vote for either a woman or a black man before the split decision will be cut off in favor of unanimous consent for Obama…
The letter said Clinton would have one nominating speech and two seconding speeches, followed by Obama’s nominating speech and three seconding speeches — totaling no more than 15 minutes for each candidate. Then the roll call will begin, said the letter signed by Obama senior adviser Jeff Berman, Clinton senior adviser Craig Smith and convention secretary Alice Germond.
Don’t you love spontaneity? Authenticity?
The voice of the little people?
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August 27th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Two things come to mind, one all the bickering about the 2000 election and “count every vote”—now the rule is unless the Dems say not to.
The other is maybe Hillary ought to adopt a theme color and stick with that. No more pantsuits in all colors of the rainbow and…….aw, never mind. It’s like trying to put cherry paint on a rusty fender.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Isn’t this the way Democrats hold ALL their elections?
August 28th, 2008 at 5:43 am
Cannot put my finger on it but Obama in this photo reminds me of the Alien from the movies, the ones with Sigourney Weaver. It is probably the smile and the teeth.
August 28th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Good point, Mad Pole - he does. My favorite part of Hillary’s moving presntation was the little pause and the drop in her voice when she said “…just (pause-drop) for me?” She knows that BO will lose and she’ll be back in another four years: skin gleaming with a triple layer of Turtle Wax, hair frozen in place with Kerry Xtra Strength Hair Immobilizer, blue contact-lensed eyes flaming with malice, fangs dripping with venom, enormous butt straining against the synthetic fibres of her canary yellow pantsuit…I can’t wait.
August 28th, 2008 at 8:38 am
ArtBoy, you made my day. Even if unintended, a small praise from you is priceless.
Obama is alien to all I believe and stand for, he makes my skin crawl whenever I see a photograph of him (we almost do not watch TV at home) as if there was something evil behind that smile, voice and the aura of “charisma” surrounding him. He almost hypnotizes people, puts them into some kind of trance. The guy is really scary.
Hey, am I being a Democrat, putting emotions before reason?
August 28th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Cheers, Mad Pole. I don’t know that I think that BO is “evil”, although I agree that the panting, gasping idolatry he inspires among some people is extremely creepy and strange.
Obama sort of reminds me of…me – but me when I was a college student; a 20 year old wise ass who thought he was the smartest and most interesting thing going, who knew everything and thought that America was in urgent need of improvement because not everybody in it thought like me and my friends and who believed unquestioningly in all the liberal mythology that I was brought up with and who thought that the rest of the world was like some theme park, full of interesting and benign people who had some kind of innate intellectual and moral superiority to us materialistic, dumb Yanks.
Later, and it took a long time and I needed some help from people like Reagan and Bill Buckley and your guy, John Paul II, I worked out that things weren’t quite like how I’d always imagined, that the world was a dangerous place that, if you left it alone, would turn into Darfur or Zimbabwe overnight, since places like that were the rule, not the exception, for most of human history and that America, despite its flaws, is still the greatest force for good that has ever been.
That’s me but Barack, well, he hasn’t made that journey. Mentally, he’s still in college and it’s that, the inability to think critically and to change your mind, which makes him scarey. Not to mention that with that long jaw and those big ears he looks just like Spider Man’s old foe, the Green Goblin.