Clinton To Nurses: Back Obama
WASHINGTON - In her first speech since conceding the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton today urged some of her strongest supporters, nurses, to back the presumptive Democratic nominee.
"I have served with Senator Obama now for nearly four years in the Senate," she told delegates of the American Nurses Association. "I campaigned with him for more than 16 months across our country. I debated with him in more debates than I can remember. And I have seen his passion and determination and his grit and his grace."
She said the stakes are too high not to unite, noting, as she did in her concession speech, that Democrats have won the White House only three times in the last 40 years.
Clinton targeted John McCain specifically on health care, saying it was "inexplicable" that he opposed expanding SCHIP, the children's health insurance program, and "unbelievable" that his health care plan would "cause millions of hard working Americans to lose the coverage they already have."
"So whatever issue you care about, whatever your passion might be, we have to join together and present a united front on behalf of our nation's future, and our children and grandchildren and generations to come," she said.
Clinton invited the nurses, an overwhelmingly female audience, to join her on the campaign trail, saying that she will start stumping for the presumptive Democratic nominee tomorrow.
"We are going to a place very appropriately called Unity, New Hampshire," she said. "It's not only well-named, but in the New Hampshire primary both of us received exactly 107 votes. So it pretty much mirrored the rest of the campaign where it was right down the middle."
Clinton seemed relaxed, rested and more self-deprecating than she was on the campaign trail. At one point she said she'd been involved in politics for, "I hate to confess, 40 years. Somebody should please call out, 'Oh I don't believe it.' But it's true!"
And as she spoke about her trademark issue, health care, she mentioned a number of encounters she had across the country, from Iowa to South Dakota, with people who have struggled to receive adequate care. And each time she mentioned a state she visited, cheers would erupt from the various delegations in the room.
"I've been everywhere," she said after one interruption from the West Virginia contingent. "And had the best time doing it."
(NBC/NJ's MIKE MEMOLI)
I hope these nurses see through her rhetoric and understands she is between a rock and a hard place. Having said that, not a nurse, obama won't get my vote. He hasn't earned it. In my opinion the media and the race card helped him win the election. Everybody know about the mess regarding FL and MI. Everybody should know the DNC meeting regarding that was a coupe. Most sitting on the fence was looking for an opportunity to jump off and used that meeting to do just that. No. the lying, flip-floping, reneging, cheating, race baiting, low down obama will not get my vote. I operate on ethics, integrity and good judgment. All of which I haven't seen in the Elitist.
I believe that she is just going through the motions. Barack should never have won, the press gave him a free ride. The man is a flipper who will say and do anything to get elected. Just ask Reverend Wright. So much for the "new politics". What a disappointment!!!
The DNC, Pelosi, and the Obama's patronizing and phony
praise of Hillary Clinton are nothing more than insincere steps
to get some of Hillary's 18 million voters to vote for Barrack.
These people are so pitiful. maybe some of Hillary's supporters
will fall for it, but most of us see it as adding insult to injury,
and we are voting for Senator John McCain in November.
The DNC, Pelosi, and the Obama's patronizing and phony
praise of Hillary Clinton are nothing more than insincere steps
to get some of Hillary's 18 million voters to vote for Barrack.
These people are so pitiful. maybe some of Hillary's supporters
will fall for it, but most of us see it as adding insult to injury,
and we are voting for Senator John McCain in November.
Smart move. If the Democrats are going to win the White House, Clinton and many of those fence riding independents must rally their support behind Obama. Many here and on other boards express how Clinton was somehow hamstrung...and yet what role did the media play in her amassing tens of millions of dollars in debt or failing to successfully game plan for caucuses, which garnered Obama his insurmountable lead? All water under the bridge now. It's time to get on with the business of putting the Republican party in the rear view mirror.