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Here is the entire video of Hillary Clinton’s speech delivered in New York following the South Dakota and Montana Primaries. She did not concede any points to Obama, simply made the statement that nothing will be decided tonight.
Here’s the full 21 minute video from:
No concession tonight, sounds like she needs time to sort this out in the next few days.
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I stand with Hillary and am proud of everything we have been fighting for!
GO HILLARY!
If you take a look at her website, the intro page is no longer a donation page. I think that is a pretty good indicator that at least whoever is in charge of the site has been told that donations are no longer the primary function of the website.
The biggest difference between Obama’s campaign and Hillary’s campaign:
Obama’s supporters’ most popular chant: “Yes We Can”
Hillary’s supporters’ most popular chant: “Yes She Will”
HIS campaign is about US.
HER campaign is about HER.
Plain and simple. More people have been inspired by Obama because he inspires Americans to believe in themselves again, just as his victory speech in Saint Paul stated “Our campaigns have never been about us, they’ve always been about you.”
People inspired by Hillary are moved by their hope to see a woman in the White House by her constant reference to the mother that shows her daughter the TV screen and says “See, you can be anything you want.”
Sorry, but this election season goes to Obama. Time to move on.
Hillary Clinton just made her chances of becoming a VP nominee even slimmer. When you select a VP, you are choosing someone who is willing to go along with your platform and your agenda– in essence, someone who is conciliatory and supportive.
Regardless of where you stand on these two candidates, Clinton did nothing to make herself seem desirable as a VP for Obama with this speech. If anything, she made herself less desirable.
Hillary angers me.
She has the capacity for true leadership, but is unwilling to do so.
Her half-hearted congratulations to Barack was shameful and indicative of who she is.
Her conduct during this primary has been anything but presidential.
My heart goes out to the good people who support her. I do believe that they will find that Barack can and will represent them well.
Unfortunately, there are Hillary supporters who will still refuse to vote for Hillary simply because Barack is not white. This saddens me, but does not surprise me.
We have a choice to make as Americans: Business as usual or Change. Not choosing Obama because of his race, is business as usual.
Regardless, we will continue to fight the good fight,devoid of attack ads, race baiting and feat tactics.
We will win, because yes we can!
OBAMA 08
Michael,
I agree with you whole heartedly. The speech she gave probably would have killed off any last hopes of her becoming VP. At a point where she rightfully should have been congratulating Obama on his victory, or at least on getting the nomination numbers; she chose to continue utter defiance of anything positive about his becoming the nominee.
I hate to say it this way, but he would be a complete fool to choose her at this point. She made sure of that last night.
On a side note looking at the history of the Clinton’s would you really want her in a position where she becomes President if you die? I think anyone but a complete Clinton Zealot would answer a resounding NO!
Just a thought
what a way to not concede gracefully.
You GUYS make me laugh…concede…why would she have conceded last night? First of all, there are still delegates in dispute. Secondly, for months we heard the threat that if the Super Delegates gave the nomination to Hillary, Donna Brazille would quit the DNC, and there could even be fighting and even rioting !!! Well, guess what? The Super Delegates GAVE the nomination to Obama…what you guys don’t understand is that even though Obama outspent Hillary 2/3/4 to 1, he was able to get more delegates( because of caucuses), but NOT more voters! There are more Hillary voters out there than Obama’s!! that’s a fact! One vote for each person…that’s the WILL of the PEOPLE!
Joyce, the race is over. The Hillary camp tries to pain the ‘popular vote” argument, but this eclipses the elections run by caucuses, which Hillary herself says has overwhelmingly went toward Obama. Obama was not on the ballot in Michigan and regardless of your position on this, the 39% who voted uncommitted probably would have added “numbers” to Obama’s popular vote tally if his name was on the ballot.
Obama won more pledged delegates (over a hundred), the primaries are over and has the majority of superdelegates (over a hundred edge), and even if she appeals the Florida/Michigan decision to reinstate their full numbers, she would not have enough to overturn the tide.
Again, you cannot claim the popular vote without getting into the politics of caucuses versus polling.
I empathize with your feelings- whether they are resentment, frustration, or anger- but in respects to the logics of the race, she has little to no recourse now (which is why some of her most ardent supporters are leaving).
Seems to me when you have more pledged delegates than your opponent and more super-delegates (which Clinton has argued should do as they please) than your opponent, you win the nomination.
All this additional parsing and analysis is as Jack Sparrow would put it is “..utterly deceptive tworrel speak.”
This is simple, people–a conflation of Hillary’s Hindenburg of an ego, and her need to play the power game. She will NOT turn down Obama’s offer of VP and endure her resulting, excruciating absence from the daily news cycle (her delay in answering is designed specifically to keep attention on her). And she will NOT accept the offer under any terms that don’t keep her as visible, and almost as powerful, as he is once they’re in office. And the beauty of this is that it might mean she gets to skate directly from contender to running mate without the horror of having to give a concession speech like a traditional candidate.
Ah, she’s not a traditional candidate, you say. Mule piss. They’re ALL traditional candidates. Because they all think they AREN’T. See how that works? You can be a pandering, repetitive, tearing-up-on cue, “we landed under sniper fire and ran to our cars” declaring egomaniac with a decades-long history of nepotism and curruption, and still think you’re the one destined to walk into the Oval.
If she thinks she can throw around some sort of leverage with her primary voters to get the V.P. spot, she is an idiot. She could have probably just asked and got it if she would have just conceded last night. Now she is viewed as letting her hubris get in the way of reality; and she is less relevant every day she puts it off. This is a typical action by a Clinton that shows just why she has such a huge negative rating with the American people.
I am ashamed by some of the comments on this story. We are one now, like it or not. Senator Obama needs Senator Clinton’s support to win this election and it does no good to re-hash the past and alienate each other more. Senator Obama and Senator Clinton worked unbelievably hard during this campaign and as supporters of theirs we owe them the respect to act like adults and quit bickering. The Democrats must win the White House and the Republicans like nothing more than to see us bickering.
Hillary simply assasinated her own character with her selfish immature attitude. She will sacrifice her political party for her own gain, what a scum bag!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She certainly is an expert about pissing on the other guy’s history making day.
Me, me, me, me, me. Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. This is the same person who looted the White House of its furnishings alright.
And how she went on to speak after allowing the crowd to chant Denver, Denver, Denver.
Of course she was making no decisions although the Party went on without her.
Well what day are we on now awaiting the “concession” speech? Amazing.
Will she really concede or merely suspend and “hope” for the best.
Here’s a piece from her upcoming speech Saturday: