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What Hillary Should Say Tonight

Posted by ROBERT STEIN in Politics.
Aug 26th, 2008 | Comments

Fellow Democrats, I had hoped to be standing here under different circumstance, but I am proud to be with you and thank those who worked with me to change the face of American politics. That we have done and, although the face this time is not mine, there is still much more for us to do.

A decade ago, I saw first-hand the politics of personal destruction and the lengths to which those who practice it will go in their lust for power. The bitter irony now is that they are invoking my name in an attempt to destroy the opponent with whom I engaged in an intense but honorable contest for the nomination we will be bestowing on him here.

Back then, before the evidence of the past eight years, I described it a vast right-wing conspiracy. Now we know what it is really is…

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DLS

Yep, her earlier ruthlessness, venality, and viciousness as well as arrogance and conceit in lunging to the left was the main cause of the 1994 elections and the need afterward for the Clintons and the Democrats to concede to reality and down-scale their ambitions. It's a lesson Clinton apparently learned and presumably Obama has already learned even if some of his most fervent fans have yet to learn.

Neocon

And your speech would be wonderful if not one single, solitary thing had happened during the primaries.

Losing to Obama would have been okay if this one thing had not transpired.
Playing second fiddle to Barak Obama would have been okay had this one thing not happened.

But it did and that is why your speech will not be made. Oh perhaps one like it. Perhaps words to that effect will be conceded but they will not be genuine.

Bill Clinton said it most. Said it best. Said it with so much emotion that his voice was quivering and he refused to carry on the interview.

"They accused me. Hillary of being racists and ............."

It was the legacy that Bill Clinton cherished most. It was the thing he worked for so hard in his life. It was his personal assurances to Jesse Jackson and the black community that he would be their champion and was.............until this election.

Everything he had worked his entire life for was shot down in a few short months by this one thing.............And he and Hillary are supposed to be quiet, be good soldiers and like it........................The democrats dont even understand what transpired under their own noses and I find that truly amazing this election year.

DLS

Well, there can still be some venting. Hillary Clinton can begin her attack on McCain by directly addressing his appealing to Clinton voters to defect to his side. (She can say "dark side," "wrong side," "axis of wrong," whatever) and then continue attacking McCain. Bill Clinton can stay on script or can surprise people by talking about the economy and how the Dems will bring happy, blissful days back to America; the sun really can shine over the land once more. That leads to the last day where Obama goes full throttle on the positive side. The End.

JSpencer

Excellent and to the point Robert! I wish that was the speech she was going to give.

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