Hillary: Grand Slam

27 August 2008 |permalink | email article

Clinton’s opening salvo, “No way, no how, no McCain,” set the tone for a speech which could do much to unify her legions of voters behind Obama.

She said that the time had come to put aside lingering divisions from her primary fight with Obama, insisting that all Democrats are “on the same team and none of us can sit on the sidelines.”

Her unequivocal stand was a fatal blow to PUMA, the group of hard line backers formed in June to accuse the Obama campaign of trying to purge the party of anything connected to the Clintons.

She damned McCain with faint praise, suggesting that the nation cannot have “four more years of the last eight years.”

Noting that the Republican convention takes place in the Twin Cities next week Clinton joked that it makes perfect sense that Bush and McCain will be there because “it’s awfully hard to tell them apart.”

TV cameras zoomed in on a smiling Bill Clinton when she referred to the success of his presidency “and if we do our part, we’ll do it again with President Clinton and the Democrats.”

No one knows what Clinton will say in his speech tonight. Still smarting from her defeat will C42 defer his dream of a Clinton restoration for the greater good of the country and expressly support the nominee? Or will he continue to undercut Obama as he reportedly did again yesterday?

Quotes

“Four more months.” – Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey on overturning GOP control of the White House.

“Just consider this the Ministry of Truth.” – Dick Wadhams, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, borrowing part of the title of George Orwell’s novel, “1984,” which deals with disinformation and propaganda. It describes a secret GOP “war room” in downtown Denver near the site of the Democratic convention whose visitors include Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani.

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