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Hillary Clinton Speech Excerpts After a Huge Win in Kentucky

May 20, 2008

Thanks to the Associated Press for these excerpts:

Tonight, we’ve achieved an important victory.

It’s not just Kentucky bluegrass that’s music to my ears. It’s the sound of your overwhelming vote of confidence, even in the face of some pretty tough odds.

Some have said your votes didn’t matter, that this campaign was over, that allowing everyone to vote and every vote to count would somehow be a mistake. But that didn’t stop you. You’ve never given up on me, because you know I’ll never give up on you.

This is one of the closest races for a party’s nomination in modern history. We’re winning the popular vote, and I’m more determined — more determined than ever to see that every vote is cast and every ballot counted.

I commend Senator Obama and his supporters. And while we continue to go toe-to-toe for this nomination, we do see eye-to-eye when it comes to uniting our party to elect a Democratic president in the fall.

But I need your help. Your support has made the difference between victory and defeat. Though we have been outspent massively, your support has helped us make our case on the air and on the ground, and your help will keep us going.

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We are in this race because we believe everyone deserves a shot at the American dream, the opportunity to work hard at a good job to get ahead, to save for college, for a home, for retirement, to fill the gas tank and buy the groceries with a little left at the end of each month to build a better life for you and your children.

We are in this race because we believe this new century poses new challenges to meet and new opportunities to seize, if we only had a president ready, willing and able to lead and turn the climate crisis into an energy revolution and create millions of new jobs, to turn the risks of the new global economy into the rewards of new prosperity shared by all of our people.

We are in this race because we believe it will take a commander in chief with the strength and knowledge to end the war in Iraq, safely and quickly, and a president with experience, representing the people of the United States in more than 80 countries, to restore our leadership and moral authority in the world.

And, yes, we are in this race because we believe America is worth fighting for. This — this continues to be a tough fight, and I have fought it the only way I know how: with determination, by never giving up and never giving in.

I have done it — I have done it not because I’ve wanted to demonstrate my toughness, but because I believe passionately that, for the sake of our country, the Democrats must take back the White House and end Republican rule.

This country needs our combination of strength and compassion to help people struggling with their bills, living the hard reality of everyday life, in need of our leadership on issues from health care to energy to Social Security.

That’s why I’m still running, and that’s why you’re still voting.

And I’m going on now to campaign in Montana, South Dakota and Puerto Rico.

And I’m going to keep standing up for the voters of Florida and Michigan.

Democrats in those two states cast 2.3 million votes, and they deserve to have those votes counted.

And that’s why I’m going to keep making our case until we have a nominee, whoever she may be.

Now, it’s especially sweet tonight because Kentucky has a knack for picking presidents.

This state delivered two terms to a president named Clinton.

And it’s often been said, as Kentucky goes, so goes the nation.

Neither Senator Obama nor I has won the 2,210 delegates required to secure the nomination. And because this race is so close, still separated by less than 200 delegates out of more than 4,400, neither Senator Obama nor I will have reached that magic number when the voting ends on June the 3rd.

And so — our party will have a tough choice to make. Who’s ready to lead our party at the top of our ticket?

Who is ready to defeat Senator McCain in the swing states and among swing voters?

Who’s ready to rebuild the economy and the war in Iraq and protect our national security as commander in chief? Who is ready on day one to lead?

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You know, the state motto of Kentucky is, “United we stand, divided we fall,” words that have a special place in our history. They inspire American revolutionaries to unite the colonies, to defy an empire, and create a new nation, to invent a new form of government, of the people, by the people, and for the people, and they bound our nation together in service and sacrifice, even in our darkest hours.

We will come together as a party, united by common values and common cause, united in service of the hopes and dreams that know no boundaries of race or creed, gender or geography. And when we do, there will be no stopping us.

We won’t just unite our party. We will unite our country and make sure America’s best years are still ahead of us.

Thank you. And God bless you, and God bless America.

Posted by Jason Rowsey | Filed Under Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Politics, election | 5 Comments 

Bias Anyone?

May 20, 2008

This is another example of what enrages the Clinton supporters in the democratic party and does nothing to help the cause of party unification.  This is from the CNN website.

Posted by Jason Rowsey | Filed Under Media Bias, Politics | 4 Comments 

Thoughts and Prayers Are With Senator Kennedy

May 20, 2008

We have all heard that horrible news about Senator Kennedy and I wanted to publicly state that my thoughts and prayers are with him.

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Clinton Wins Big in Kentucky

May 20, 2008

The fat lady has yet to sing in this democratic party.  Although things don’t look great for Clinton in terms of the nomination, hundreds of thousands of people keep turning out in state after state to vote for Clinton even though we keep being told its over for her.

Many political pundits continue to pontificate as to why she continues with this fight.  Some say she is just power hungry and some think that she is perhaps just delusional.

However, what is really happening is that Clinton is keeping her word to the millions of voters across this country that aren’t happy with Obama and that have continued to support her race after race.  She is truly an inspirational political figure.

Posted by Jason Rowsey | Filed Under Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Ohio Government, Politics, Polls, ohio | 3 Comments