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Re: Hillary Harps At Obama To Be VP

GreenDreams — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:52:21 -0000

and as one of the WH correspondents noted, the boos were mostly gone by the end of her speech, indicating that maybe she did, over the course of her speech, cool their anger a bit.

Re: Hillary Harps At Obama To Be VP

runasim — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:00:16 -0000

LooseCannon,
I thougjt like you at first.
Now I wonder if trying to move them before they are ready might not have backfired.
Everyone needs a little R&R after an emotional experience.

I'm hoping she'll return to the subject.
That wasn't her last speech.

Re: Hillary Harps At Obama To Be VP

LooseKannon — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:07:00 -0000

Great Cartoon!

If I was Mrs. Clinton, I’d have known (which I’m guessing she did) that there were lines in my D.C. congratulatory speech to Senator Obama that would be booed by my hardcore supporters, who are still licking their wounds.

I would have addressed them right then and there (which she didn’t). If you’re trying to unify a party and a people, you take advantage of a teaching moment like that. Her choosing not to take on the malcontents, who must be turned into Obama allies in order to attain her self-proclaimed goal of having a Dem take back the White House in ‘09, was unfortunate and perhaps telling.

A stern “get over and past it or suffer the consequences of four more years of national decay” would have endeared her to the party and eventually to the nation. It also would have endeared her to the committee vetting possible running mates.