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Moving, rousing, tremendously effective--
and not at all surprising.

She is terrific.  

Barack Obama, buddy, I'd give your speech an extra once over if I were you.

That was great. I dunno if it did what she wanted it to do, but I can't imagine anyone for whom it wouldn't.

As Maddow said, anyone who could be convinced rationally will be convinced by this speech. There will be post-rational holdouts, but that can't be helped. Excellent, home-run of a speech for Unity and against McCain, major credit to Clinton from a person who's not a fan of hers.

Mrs Diefenbach was bitching about Hillary as late as yesterday, now she calls me at work telling me she loves her and her speech, which I guess I'll get the highlights of later.  What the heck is a goin on?

Hillary, in the quiet words of The Who:

You are forgiven! You are forgiven!

You are forgiven, forgiven, forgiven!

of those voters who plan to vote for McCain or don't know were watching.

Except for those dumbass PUMAs, I don't see how any former Clinton supporters can't let her down now by not voting or voting for McCain.

Always will.  Tremendous speech.  Both my wife and I were in tears.  The Harriet Tubman part of the speech was electric.

Well done Hillary.  Amazing job.

Best speech thus far. I think only Obama will top it.

She didn't just hit it out of the park - that ball is sailing over New Zealand right now.

Finally someone did it, She ripped McCain into pieces.

hahahaha the best part of this, it was a GREAT speech so ofcourse Fox News has to attack it, I hope PUMA is enjoying it, you know Fox News is their new favorite channel :-P

That speech made me want to move back to New York just so that I can vote for her.  Blew me away.

No way.  No how.  No McCain.

An fantastic speech from a fantastic woman.....Here's to Hillary Rodham Clinton!!!

Hillary was awesome tonight..if she would have been that person during her campaign...I may have never given another candidate a look. I am so happy to be able to send her an honest compliment and have restored respect for her.

I'm remembering what it felt like when we were all giddy at our field, an embarrassment of riches.

Tonight was a good night.

Tonight reminded me why I'm a Democrat - and why at long last, I think we're going to reach that promised land in November.

Thank you Hillary.  

Well done and godspeed.

Perfect.

Perfect.

Perfect.

Suck on that haters.

"Keep going!"

Were generally very positive. But Stephanopoulis couldn't resist pushing the Dems in Disarray meme a little, and was slapped down by ... wait for it ... Charlie freakin' Gibson!

Rough transcript:
STEPH: I got a call from a friend who's a big supporter of McCain who said "How dumb was it not to pick Hillary?"

GIBSON: Yeah, I guess the Republicans will try to keep fanning that flame.

You had to hear the tone of Gibson's voice for the full effect - so dismissive. I think he wanted to add "as if that's going to work any more after this speech." Steph came off looking like a real wanker.

Her speech will be the speech we remember after the election is long over.

It's up there with Teddy Kennedy's '80 "The Dream Never Dies" speech, and Jesse Jackson's '88 "Keep Hope Alive" speech, and even Mario Cuomo's "Tale of Two Cities" speech in '84.

dude even the bitter republican callers on cspan are saying she did a good job!!! damn. when you can get compliments from the cspan callers you know we have moved some motha fucken mountains!

12 minutes or so in came this passage - absolutely arresting -

To me, she hit her stride here, and carried it through to the end.

In addition to everything else people will say about this speech's function, my take away is that in her writing, but most importantly, in her delivery, Hilary grew much larger in stature tonight.

I believe in what was suggested earlier (perhaps by Howard Fineman?) Ted Kennedy's torch in the Senate could now well pass now to her - what a noble calling!

~ Rob McC

Thank you Senator Clinton.

How the frick did Obama people pass over her? If this is the speech she gave when she is not on the ticket, what would have happened when she was on the ticket.

Oh well, I guess you are allowed one mistake.

And that's just one reason I've been for Hillary all along.

Tremendous.

I wonder if Hillary thought about that vile joke John McCain told about then 12-year old Chelsea being ugly to get herself psyched up for this.

I know she's fiercely protective of her daughter and that's the type of thing no one ever forgets.

I love what James Carville just said on CNN.  Quote, "if your a republican you had a bad night tonight."  

OK, you'd expect a good reaction from Keith, and the fact that Tweety liked it isn't a real stretch, but Andrea? Her tag line was that she felt a real change on the convention floor after the speech.

Wow. Spectacular speech that made me proud of her and proud to be proud of her.  In retrospect, it's made me think back to that moment where the two of them stood together before the California debate and I thought there it is, that's why I am a Democrat.  And tonight once again, that is why, this is why, I am a Democrat.

OMG! She crushed it! I have no doubt now that we will win this election united and going away. She was all the things we needed her to be: powerful, inspiring and above all a team player who put the party and the bigger goals above her own campaign. She framed the battle in so many great ways, and took it to McCain in terms so tone perfect that I bet they are crapping themselves in McCain HQ. This Obama supporter has no doubts that Hillary Clinton will be a great asset not only to the election of Barack Obama but more importantly to the future of progressive politics in this country. Wow! What a night!

OMG! She crushed it! I have no doubt now that we will win this election united and going away. She was all the things we needed her to be: powerful, inspiring and above all a team player who put the party and the bigger goals above her own campaign. She framed the battle in so many great ways, and took it to McCain in terms so tone perfect that I bet they are crapping themselves in McCain HQ. This Obama supporter has no doubts that Hillary Clinton will be a great asset not only to the election of Barack Obama but more importantly to the future of progressive politics in this country. Wow! What a night!

If McCain is up five over the weekend, it's lights out...

Just a snark, but you never know.

Her speech was great but I wish she would have given me a reason to vote for Obama, something other than he's not McCain.  She said nothing about Obama's qualities that will make him a good President.  Or did I miss that part?

I'm still not ready to vote for Obama.  Sorry.  Hillary just proved again that she should be on the ticket.  She didn't tell me why Obama should be.  

God, I wish someone from the Clinton camp would leak to the media that Hillary was still bitter about McCain's disgusting joke about Chelsea being ugly so many years ago.

I would love to get the media discussing that incident ad nauseum.  McCain comes off looking like a heartless piece of shit.

descriptions... since I have not seen it.

AWESOME BABY!

Progressive Blue

I hope Ford is right and Bill will try to outdo Hillary.  Great job.  Here's hoping Clinton and Biden keep it going tomorrow.

My wife called me halfway through, so I paused the DVR...and then the channel changed to PBS and I lost the speech!

Anybody know where I can find it online?  Or if somebody will be replaying it?  I'm freaking out here.

Pat Buchanan (MSNBC) seriously needs to STFU.

If I never before saw a tour-de-force, epic, game-changing speech, I saw one tonight.

Damn!

just won't stop, will he?

A perfect speech.  She was absolutely wonderful.

but i didn't think it was that great.  number one, she didn't really make a case for obama, just said that she supported him fully.  i wish she'd taken on some of the things she said in the past, said he was ready to lead, etc.

number two, i am tired as hell of the sacharine rhetoric we get in all these convention speeches about how we are in favor of jobs, education and health care for everyone, opportunity for all, and a happy wonderful america.  this stuff is just not inspiring and is boring as hell.  i also get pretty tired of the Little Timmy anecdotes i.e. "I will always remember Little Timmy from the campaign and how he inspired me and how we're all in this for him."  98% of the time the anecdote is empty of feeling.

Same with Warner.  How about some semi-substance at least about how McCain will trample the right to choose, flip flopped on drilling and tax cuts and a million other things, doesn't understand the economy and wants to dig the deficit hole even deeper, doesn't inspire anyone, is a dangerous hothead who loves war, etc.  How many empty speeches are we going to get about the laundry list of Things We All Like?

I liked the Harriet Tubman part though, that was actually inspiring.

"I'm about out of battery life. What did you think?"

I think we need universal power outlets.  What good is your health when you can't even blog?

Thank you.  That's what I have been trying to say.  She needed to say something about Obama and why he's deserving of our votes!  

AMAZING speech by Hillary. I had goosebumps. and you know I don't like her.

I loved it

Hillary's speech was OUT-FUCKING-STANDING!

Pardon my French, but I'm fired up.

When they realize our SECOND place finisher is so much better than the best they have to offer.  I've said it from the beginning of the primary, we had a great slate of candidates to choose from and the Republicans had squat.

the speech of a lifetime.  I know Obama is supposed to be the better speaker, but man...I can't see him topping this!

Although the PBS talking heads' (all male, of course!) dissection of it pissed me off.  Earth to morons:

1. Backtracking on all her primary comments would have simply re-emphasized the wounds of the past, rather than emphasizing what we need to do NOW and in the coming months.
2. Backtracking on all her primary comments would have been a complete turn-off to her wavering supporters, who would have (rightly, I might add) interpreted it as "I'm being forced to do this."  That is exactly the wrong message.  The RIGHT message is the one she gave tonight--"I am freely and willingly endorsing Obama, because he stands for what you and I really believe in."

So the scorecard of the evening comes out to Talking Heads 0, Hillary Clinton 18,000,000.  Rock on, Senator Clinton!