Hillary, Triumphant, Finds Her Voice
Hillary Clinton began the campaign by saying she was “in it to win it.” In the New Hampshire primary victory speech she delivered just now at the Southern New Hampshire University, she told the cheering crowd, “We are in it for the American people.”
Hillary Clinton has become a better candidate.
And in these last few days she has also become a more emotional one. “I want especially to thank New Hampshire, over the last week I listened to you and in the process, I found my own voice.”
Everyone in the packed gym, one day after she was publicly moved to near-tears yesterday at a Portsmouth diner, knew exactly what she was talking about.
After repeatedly thanking the rapturous crowd, she started her speech by saying, “I come tonight with a very, very full heart” and this: “I felt like we all spoke from our hearts and I am so glad you all responded. Now let’s give America the kind of comeback you have just given me.”
She continued to emphasize the seriousness of the campaign, though in less foreboding terms.
“For all the ups and downs of this campaign,” she said, “you helped remind all of us that politics is not a game.”
Echoing Obama’s rousing concession speech moments earlier, in which he adopted a “yes we can” mantra, she said, “I believe deeply in America, in our can do spirit.”
Like Obama, Clinton pushed the message that the campaign was not about her, but about the American people. “We’re going to tap into all the spirit, the talent and just the plain grit of this nation again,” she said. “You want this campaign to be about you, because there is so much at stake for our country.”
She only needled Barack Obama once, gently, in the process of thanking her New Hampshire campaign.
“That team had a great staff, it had volunteers and supporters from across the state and country,” she said. “I want to thank the young people across New Hampshire who came out--they asked the hard questions and voted their hearts and their minds.”
Otherwise, she respectfully thanked Obama and all the other Democratic candidates, those who dropped out and those still running. She thanked her husband, daughter and mother.
“This campaign,” Clinton said, “will transform America.”
- Poll
- Obama (D)
- McCain(R)
- Spread
- RCP Average
- 46.5
- 41.7
- Obama +4.8
- Candidate
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- 55.7
- 32.7
- +23.0
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anyone who watched Obama's NH "concession" speech and HRC's "victory" speech knows that Obama is the Dem best promise to transform politcics and beat the GOP in Nov..
WE WOULD LIKE TO RETURN TO
RECORDS SET
- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court
GOOOOOOOOOO HILLARY
Unfortunately, for all the blather about "change," one single president isn't going to do much. Isn't that true? It takes the president AND the entire Congress ... the new president, whomever he/she is, can't just ride into Washington and alter the course of events without compromise, dealmaking, et cetera ... not that there's anything wrong with that ... it's just that the general public seems to take such a simplistic viewpoint of who can actually do what ...
That Obama's voice is about social justice and that Hillary's voice is about running the country is not something that should be overlooked in the elections, and forms the difference between exposure and experience and not having any.
The nation needs social justice, but the country doesn't run on social justice. Hillary is right to focus upon her strengths as experienced, but as her weepy breakdown question reveals, she is not emotionless, nor inhuman.
That attributes to her success in NH more than anything else that she has an attitude of reality but does not ignore the desires of the people. Her strength is what America needs.
PLEASE someone tell me how Hillary can claim to be the most experienced, the most vetted, the most qualified to bring change
to this country and then in her victory speech in New Hampshire say that just over the previous week, she “found her own voice”. WTF????!!
So what, before New Hampshire she didn’t have a voice? The last few weeks in Iowa she was on this campaign to get people to like
her… “The Hillary I know”…her campaign insisting she is not the icey person that the public views her to be. She gets to N.H., is down in
the polls, gets teary eyed, and finds her voice??? Again, WTF??? What exactly does she mean when she says that? Did she not have a voice
before? Is she now actually being the Hillary They Know that her campaign insists really does exist? And if so, who was the Hillary before the
teary moment? Was she a robot controlled by her people, controlled by the polls? So are we only NOW seeing the real Hillary? Who the f**k is she?!! Are we all supposed to be happy for her, now that she’s found her voice? Are we supposed to say, “YES! THIS is the Hillary they’ve been talking about! She really does have a heart! I like her now! She gets my vote!”
America- you know what she’s found? She has finally found the Hillary that brings in votes. She’s tried on “experience” Hillary, “strong” Hillary,
“getting picked on” Hillary, I mean, seriously, you fill in the blank. And in N.H., she found that “teary-eyed emotional” Hillary got her votes. And voila! She’s found her voice!
Anyone who buys into this is a complete idiot.