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HILLARY CLINTON DNC CONVENTION SPEECH 2008 "WE HAVE TO ELECT BARACK OBAMA PRESIDENT"

Senator Hillary Clinton formally withdrew from the Democratic race for president. However,many people in the Democratic Party weren't sure how Hillary was going to handle her speech at the Democratic Convention. There were rumblings that Hillary was going to hold on to her pledged delegates after her bitter battle for the White House ended with a victory for her rival Barack Obama. Hillary did mention her run for president during her speech and seems as though she is preparing to run again in the next election. Watch Hillary Clinton's speech if you missed it.  Here are some reaction to Hillary Clinton's speech.

Hillary Clinton DNC 2008 speech part 2

Ben Smith: "Hillary's speech -- a success in the hall -- was a study in the virtue of low expectations."

Nick Gillespie: "I'd say that Sen. Clinton has had the best performance so far, by a wide margin, both in terms of attacking John McCain and the Republicans head-on and defining a nauseatingly comprehensive set of plans for raising taxes, getting mad at companies for 'shipping job overseas,' and pushing universal health care (or more accurately, even more expensive and less effective health care)."

Andrew Sullivan: "She started out a little dull and a little self-obsessed. But then she rallied -- a little. 'No Way. No How. No McCain' was a good line. And the Twin Cities analogy was a great little riff on Bush and McCain. But I have to say her speaking style, although much improved over even a year ago, is still a little flat. When she's passionate, she has little inflection. When she's quieter, she's a little drony. The 'keep going' theme, moreover, was a little unnerving. A thinly veiled threat?"

Craig Crawford: "Stunning. Hillary Rodham Clinton's convention speech on Tuesday was so NOT what Barack Obama needed." source

Hillary Clinton DNC 2008 speech part 3

It was the night the Democratic Party was looking forward to ... and dreading.

As some of the pledged delegates for New York Senator Hillary Clinton vocally expressed support for their candidate of choice during her prime-time speech Tuesday night (August 26) at the Democratic National Convention, others worried that the divisions between the Clinton camp and that of presumptive Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama could send a message of disunity at a time when the party was trying to put on its most unified face for the world.

"Whether you voted for me, or you voted for Barack, the time is now to unite as a single party with a single purpose," said Senator Clinton during her rousing speech, during which the floor of the convention center was a sea of signs that said either "Hillary" or "Obama" on one side and "Unity" on the other. "We are on the same team, and none of us can afford to sit on the sidelines. This is a fight for the future. And it's a fight we must win together.

"We were all very interested to see her reasons for supporting Barack Obama, and so I think it's very clear tonight that she was a strong messenger that we have to change our country and that it's OK, even though we supported Hillary Clinton in the past, to unite behind Barack Obama," said Hector Balderas, 34, an elected Clinton delegate who serves as the state auditor for New Mexico and is the youngest Hispanic statewide elected official in the country.

Speaking outside the Pepsi Center just after the Clinton address, Balderas was joined by Conor Kennedy, 14, son of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose family, like Balderas', faced some internal squabbling over which Democratic candidate they were going to back in this election.

"Even though I can't vote, I'm trying my best to support Obama and get the word out about how great he is and what an inspiration he's going to be," said the preternaturally on-message Kennedy, who was wearing a dark blue suit, red tie and Vans. "I've met a lot of women who switched from Hillary to McCain just because they were upset, so I think it's really, really important that she came here. It's a great thing. ... She had everyone on their feet clapping for her. It was an inspiring speech, and I think that it spoke to everyone."

After the bitterly contested primary, Clinton unequivocally threw her support behind Obama on Tuesday night, even if, as Balderas noted, there was a bit of a scramble and some grumbling among members of the delegation over which of the unity signs to take during the speech. Free of the bitterness that marked the campaign, Clinton called herself a "proud supporter of Barack Obama" during the 23-minute address and repeatedly stressed the importance of those who supported her lining up behind Obama to defeat presumptive Republican nominee John McCain. source

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HILLARY CLINTON CONCESSION SPEECH FINALLY ENDS RACE ENDORSES BARACK OBAMA

Hillary Clinton refused to back down or give up the fight after Barack Obama clinched the Democratic Nomination for president. Hillary Clinton offended many people during the end of her political campaign when she made a comment during an interview that she was staying in the presidential race because  Robert Kennedy was assassinated in June. 

Today her concession speech represents the moment that many political leaders in the Democratic party had been waiting for since Barack Obama took the lead in delegates. Sen. Clinton took the a step towards uniting the Democratic party after a long and very bitter primary season saying, "I throw my full support behind" Sen. Obama.

Watch:

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) ended her historic quest to become America's first woman president Saturday and officially conceded the Democratic nomination to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL).

During her concession speech, in Washington's National Building Museum in front of a crowd of thousands, the former first lady urged her supporters to do everything they can to help elect Obama, her former rival, all the way to the White House as the next president.

Check out the full story here.

HILLARY CLINTON GIVES DELUSIONAL SPEECH AFTER BARACK OBAMA CLINCHES THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION VIDEO

Hillary Clinton surprised many people on June 3rd when she still would not conceded after Barack Obama  clinched the Democratic nomination for president. Hillary gave a delusional speech about the votes she received and she asked her supporters to contact her so she could determine how to proceed with her campaign.  Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, Terry McAuliffe, spoke on the morning of June 3rd and said that Hillary Clinton would admit defeat if Barack Obama had the delegates to receive the nomination. However, he later changed his position and insisted that Hillary Clinton would not concede to Barack Obama.

McAuliffe: Hillary To Concede When Obama Hits "Magic Number"

McAuliffe: Hillary Will Not Concede

I'm sure plenty of people had strong reactions to that speech Hillary just gave. "To the 18 million people who voted for me, and many other people out there… I want to hear from you… I’ll be consulting with supporters and party leaders, to determine how to move forward, with the best interests of our party and our country in mind."

So she's going to leave it to her voters to decide whether she should accept defeat after having, you know, lost? What if every losing candidate left it to their supporters to decide whether or not to accept the outcome of a race? Who would ever accept defeat?

What good could possibly come of this? With Hillary proclaiming herself the legitimate winner, they're clearly going to say "keep going." If she actually does keep going, that's a disaster for the Democratic Party. And if she doesn't, you've just drawn a ton of attention to the fact that a large chunk of the party doesn't accept Obama as the legimiate nominee. No, worse: you've encouraged them to think that, then drawn attention to it. What a disaster. source

DONNA BRAZILE TO HILLARY CLINTON "MY MAMA TAUGHT ME TO PLAY BY THE RULES OR IT'S CHEATING"

At the DNC Rules Panel, Donna Brazile, Superdelegate and Rules Committee Member, tells Hillary Clinton Supporter, Governor Blanchard, by stating:"My mama taught me to play by the rules and respect the rules..." "When you decide to change the rules, especially, in the middle of the game, it's called cheating."

Hillary Rodham Clinton suffered a crushing blow yesterday when a Democratic Party committee agreed to a deal reseating the Florida and Michigan delegations - vaulting Barack Obama to within 66 delegates of the nomination.

The decision, which Clinton aides described as a pro-Obama "hijack" that violated party rules, removes a major roadblock to the nomination for Obama and sets the number of delegates he needs to win at 2,118.

Counting delegates assigned yesterday, Obama leads Clinton 2,052 to 1,877.5, according to The Associated Press.

That means Obama could gain enough delegates and superdelegates to try to claim victory as early as Tuesday's final primaries in South Dakota and Montana, or soon thereafter.  "I believe sometime next week we will know precisely who the Democratic nominee is - it is 100 percent certain," predicted Obama communications chief Robert Gibbs. "We are ready to begin the general election campaign."

Angry Clinton aides immediately threatened to appeal the deal, brokered by the 30-member Rules and Bylaws committee of the Democratic National Committee. That could prolong the fight until late this month - but several aides in Clinton's camp said she would only continue to battle if there was the political will within the party to do so. source

KEITH OLBERMANN SPECIAL COMMENT ON HILLARY CLINTON BARACK OBAMA ASSASSINATION REMARK

 

Hillary Clinton made a comment during an interview that she was staying in the presidential race because  Robert Kennedy was assassinated in June. Some political pundits are calling her assassination remark a "gaffe" and are deliberately trying to downplay her statement. MSNBC host Keith Olbermann offered his own special commentary on Hillary Clinton's statement about Barack Obama getting assassinated. He also uncovers information that the Argus interview was not the first time but at least the fourth time she made assassination remarks about her political opponent Barack Obama. source

Hillary later explained the “assassination” remark by claiming, “The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days” because of Senator Ted Kennedy’s brain cancer diagnosis. Yet she said more or less the same thing in March, to Time magazine, when Senator Kennedy was not, presumably, on her mind.

“Primary contests used to last a lot longer. We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A. My husband didn’t wrap up the nomination in 1992 until June,” she told Time.

“Having a primary contest go through June is nothing particularly unusual,” she said.

But when you look closer again, the remarks are not true, again. Bill Clinton’s primary race was essentially over in March, when Paul Tsongas dropped out and Clinton faced no serious opposition. As for RFK’s candidacy, it was not a long national soap opera. No, RFK won his first primary May 7 and was murdered four weeks later. source

HILLARY CLINTON BARACK OBAMA ASSASSINATION COMMENT

Hillary Clinton made a comment during an interview that she was staying in the presidential race because  Robert Kennedy was assassinated in June. Some political pundits are calling her assassination comment a "gaffe" and are deliberately trying to downplay her statement.  Hillary has been boasting about her experience and deliberately doing what people are referring to as "race baiting" in an effort to say that she has more appeal to the white working class voter.  Some democrats are calling for a dream ticket with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. But how is the ticket going to work if Obama chooses Hillary Clinton as a running mate and she makes jokes about him being assassinated? Tim Russert, on MSNBC, points out that after the Indiana and North Carolina Primaries, 'We now know who the Democratic Nominee Will Be.' Hillary Clinton launched a series of attack ads against the media because they have been calling for her to drop out of the race because it is  mathematically impossible for her to win the nomination.

Hillary Clinton today brought up the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy while defending her decision to stay in the race against Barack Obama. "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it," she said, dismissing calls to drop out. Obama's camp immediately fired back. "Sen. Clinton's statement before the Argus Leader editorial board was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign," Obama campaign spokesman said in a statement. source

At a hastily convened press conference on the campaign trail in South Dakota she said she had no intention of causing offence to anyone, especially in the Kennedy family. She said that in an interview with the Sioux Falls Argus Leader she had merely intended to point out how primary campaigns can last into the summer, also referring to the fact her husband ex-president Bill Clinton did not wrap up his victory late on. Asked about calls for her to drop out of the race, she had said: "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it."   But her remarks will be interpreted by some as airing fears that her rival Senator Barack Obama, who is aiming to become the first black US president, may be assassinated. His campaign reacted angrily, saying: "Senator Clinton's statement was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign." Whatever her intentions, her remarks amounted to an own goal on a day where political news had been driven by her supporters' increasingly vocal campaign for her to be offered the vice-presidential nomination by Mr Obama, who has a slim but insurmountable lead in their marathon contest. According to friends of Mr Clinton quoted by Time.com, he thinks that her robust showing, especially in key swing states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania and among blue collar and female voters, makes her the overwhelming choice. Another anonymous friend told the New York Times: "If she's not going to be the nominee then he wants her in the second spot." source

NEW YORK TIMES CRITICIZES HILLARY CLINTON FOR NEGATIVE CAMPAIGN

Clinton on Pennsylvania primary

In an exclusive interview on April 22, Hillary Clinton talked about her roots in the Scranton, Pa., area and why she feels she is more qualified to be president than Barack Obama. The New York Times who endorsed Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign published an editorial about Hillary Clinton's attack strategy during the Pennsylvania Primary.  The NYT criticized Clinton's tactics for being "meaner, more vacuous and desperate." Barack Obama's campaign released a memo explaining that despite Hillary Clinton's victory she will be unable to make significant inroads in the pledged delegate count. Click here to read the memo.

Watch Chuck Todd explain how it is 'Impossible for Obama to Lose His Lead'

The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it.

Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and it does not work. It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election.

If nothing else, self interest should push her in that direction. Mrs. Clinton did not get the big win in Pennsylvania that she needed to challenge the calculus of the Democratic race. It is true that Senator Barack Obama outspent her 2-to-1. But Mrs. Clinton and her advisers should mainly blame themselves, because, as the political operatives say, they went heavily negative and ended up squandering a good part of what was once a 20-point lead.

On the eve of this crucial primary, Mrs. Clinton became the first Democratic candidate to wave the bloody shirt of 9/11. A Clinton television ad — torn right from Karl Rove’s playbook — evoked the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, the Cuban missile crisis, the cold war and the 9/11 attacks, complete with video of Osama bin Laden. “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen,” the narrator intoned.

If that was supposed to bolster Mrs. Clinton’s argument that she is the better prepared to be president in a dangerous world, she sent the opposite message on Tuesday morning by declaring in an interview on ABC News that if Iran attacked Israel while she were president: “We would be able to totally obliterate them.”

By staying on the attack and not engaging Mr. Obama on the substance of issues like terrorism, the economy and how to organize an orderly exit from Iraq, Mrs. Clinton does more than just turn off voters who don’t like negative campaigning. She undercuts the rationale for her candidacy that led this page and others to support her: that she is more qualified, right now, to be president than Mr. Obama. It is getting to be time for the superdelegates to do what the Democrats had in mind when they created superdelegates: settle a bloody race that cannot be won at the ballot box. Mrs. Clinton once had a big lead among the party elders, but has been steadily losing it, in large part because of her negative campaign. If she is ever to have a hope of persuading these most loyal of Democrats to come back to her side, let alone win over the larger body of voters, she has to call off the dogs. source

HILLARY CLINTON WINS PENNSYLVANIA PRIMARY OBAMA STILL LEADS DELEGATE COUNT

Obama: ‘We closed the gap’

Watch Barack Obama's speech.

Hillary Clinton won the Pennsylvania Primary by a small margin. During an interview with President Bill Clinton on April 21 2008, WHYY reporter Susan Phillips asked him to respond to the fact that some prominent Philadelphia African-American officials, who had originally supported Senator Clinton, went over to Obama after the former president's remarks in South Carolina about Jesse Jackson. Clinton vehemently defended his record on racial issues. At the end of the call, the President, evidently unaware that he was still on the line, revealed his feelings about that line of questioning saying, "I don't think I should take any shit from anybody about that, do you?" For more coverage of the Pennsylvania primary and continuing coverage of Election 2008, visit whyy.org.  Watch Bill Clinton lie as he falsely denies claiming Obama played the "race-card". Barack Obama's campaign released a memo explaining that despite Hillary Clinton's victory she will be unable to make significant inroads in the pledged delegate count. Click here to read the memo.

The Pennsylvania showdown was a must-win for Sen. Clinton, who trails in convention delegates, numbers of contests won and total popular vote. Her campaign had hoped that a big triumph would both cut into Sen. Obama's delegate lead and sow doubts about his electability among the party leaders, or superdelegates, whose votes will effectively decide the nominee.

It isn't clear whether her Pennsylvania victory will accomplish that. As of Wednesday morning she held a 55%-to-45% majority, with about 99% of the vote reported -- short of the blowout many strategists said she needed. But she carried well over 60% of white working-class voters, a crucial swing bloc for election. She also won heavily among voters who made up their minds in the past few days, suggesting Sen. Obama's late spurt of negative ads hadn't worked.

"We were up against a formidable candidate who outspent us three to one," Sen. Clinton told a victory rally in Philadelphia Tuesday night. "He broke every spending record in this state trying to knock us out of the race. Well the people of Pennsylvania had other ideas." source

Bosnia and Back Again, starring Sen. Hillary Clinton-TRAILER

One of the questions raised at the Democratic Debate is that some Americans believe former first lady President Clinton is not truthful.

Here is the newest production from The Jed Report ( http://www.jedreport.com ) -- Bosnia and Back Again, the story of Senator Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. AMERICAblog declares it is "the most spectacular display of sniper fire since Tuzla." Senator Clinton plays herself in a performance The Field calls "a paid political ad for John McCain."

HILLARY CLINTON IS A BOOZE HOUND?

Is the former First Lady and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton a booze hound? Watch Senator Clinton down whiskey shots and beer chasers! Classy...See Hillary throw back the beers like she's at a frat house party.

Hillary makes sure to tell everyone she's having fun and is not driving before she throws back and downs her booze. Click here to watch the video. Barack Obama called Hillary Clinton's beer drinking and whiskey swillin' stunt a staged photo op. Is it possible that Hillary Clinton is a lush?  It was mentioned on Fox in the clip that Hillary's behavior was " typical". The correspondents stated "She will sit down with reporters at the end of the day and have a drink either red wine or blue moon. Hillary is no stranger to late night drinks with the press and her staff." We found a few instances on video when Hillary is caught conducting interviews with the press sounding intoxicated and holding a beer in her hand. photo source

Watch Sen. Hillary Clinton relax with a beer during an interview with CNN and several members of the press. The Senator appears a bit tipsy and can't seem to remember how long she has known her close friends actors Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen.   We must note that Ted Danson's endorsement of Senator Clinton is definitely not a way for the Senator to gain African-American votes. In 1993 Ted Danson's public image and career were damaged after his blackface tribute to his girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg during the Friars Club roast.  Public outrage intensified as many Black individuals and organizations came foward to announce that they failed to see the humor in the racially-charged skit. Scathing letters were sent to the Friars Club in New York blasting Danson's appearance in blackface and huge white lips. The actor's routine used the word "nigger" a number of times and made references to the sexual lives of Ms. Goldberg and him. Click here to see the infamous blackface photo and learn more about the scandal. source  Radio shock jock Howard Stern did a spoof of the sketch with Sherman Hemsley. Click to watch the black face spoof.

Watch another video of Hillary Clinton joking with reporters about Obama, bowling and basketball with a beer in her hand.