It took a while to sink in perhaps, but Hillary Clinton was finally able to accept her defeat to Barack Obama–and with conviction.
In Denver, she gave her supporters more than a little nudge toward Obama.
“I want you to ask yourselves: Were you in this campaign just for me?” Clinton asked.
The party and a Nov. victory, is all, of course, bigger than Ms. Clinton. And once, APA loyalists get over that, it will be easy for old Clinton supporters to drop their hesitance and back the Obama-Biden ticket.
It was almost too good a speech. A reminder of what could have been: Hillary giving the Thursday speech and Obama telling his supporters to back the ticket. Instead, she gives the unifying speech that Obama had to have and sets him up for the talk of his life.
After the speech, some APA women I talked to–all of whom were originally Clinton supporters–seemed to be swayed by Hillary’s message.
“The time is now to unite as a single party, with a single purpose,” Clinton said. “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.”
Read the whole speech:
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/08/26/hillary-clintons-speech-at-the-democratic-convention/