Hillary promises to keep on fighting "until we have a nominee, whoever SHE may be"

[Apollo11]

Hillary Clinton's Victory Speech in Kentucky (May 20, 2008)

Excerpt from the transcript published on CNN.com

CLINTON: Now, you know that the stakes are high. After all this country has been through the past seven years, we have to get this right. We have to select a nominee who is best positioned to win in November.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

AUDIENCE: Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary! Hillary!

CLINTON: And someone who is best prepared to address the enormous challenges facing our country in these difficult times. That's what this election is all about.

Now, I'm told that more people have voted for me than for anyone who's ever run for the Democratic nomination.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

CLINTON: That's more than 17 million votes. Now, why? Why do millions keep turning out to vote in the face of naysayers and skeptics? Because you know that our political process is more than candidates running or the pundits chattering or the ads blaring.

It's about the path we choose as a nation and whether or not we will solve our toughest problems, whether or not we will have a president who will rebuild the economy, end the war in Iraq, restore our leadership in the world, and stand up for you every single day.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

CLINTON: And, you know, the people I meet along the campaign trail don't always make the headlines: the nurses and teachers, the truckers and soldiers, the waitresses and firefighters, the police officers and coal miners, the college students and line workers, the men and women who get up every single day, work hard to make a difference for their families, the people struggling to make ends meet, to find a good job, to pay the bills, to have a shot at the American dream.

For too long, too many Americans have felt invisible in their own country. Well, you've never been invisible to me. I have been fighting for you my entire life.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

CLINTON: And I want you to remember we are in this race because we believe that every single American deserves quality, affordable health care, no exceptions, no one left out.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

CLINTON: 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...

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

CLINTON: ... 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...

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

CLINTON: 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.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

CLINTON: I have done it -- I have done it not because I have 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.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

CLINTON: 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.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

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

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

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

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

CLINTON: Democrats in those two states cast 2. 3 million votes, and they deserve to have those votes counted.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

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


READ the entire speech here: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/20/se.02.html

WATCH the whole speech here: www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=135374&mesg_id=135374

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[cali]

1. Baghdad Hill

And she damn well better accept the RBC ruling in 10 days. Not to mention toning down her rhetoric. She isn't and will not be the nominee. She's prohibitively far behind the man who will be our nominee, Barack Hussein Obama.

[tekisui]

2. Do we know that the RBC ruling will be made on the 31st?

Do they have 10 days to accept it?

Dean, MacAuliff, and others have said it will be over by mid-June. It better be.

[cali]

7. Just my opinion- and the opinion of Chuck Todd and Fineman

and others, but I think the RBC has already reached a decision. My guess is they'll announce it on May 32.

[Petrushka]

8. "May 32", did you say? As good a guess as any, I guess.

;-)

[SwampG8r]

17. lol is that the new clinton calendar?

[Township75]

3. Obama is going to have a sex change...or "he" already is a woman???

He really fooled us. :grr:

[still_one]

I suspect this is much more than just wanting the primaries to run their course

I hope I am wrong, but every indication from her words and action indicates she wants to take this to the convention even if she doesn't have the most delegates

My prediction is that if she continues to play this game, the Senator Clinton will be humiliated by the Super Delegates.

In fact the way she has run her entire campaign probably are the best telling indicator why she doesn't deserve to be the Democratic nominee.

[still_one]

4. duplicate /nt

[still_one]

5. duplicate

[Petrushka]

9. Shouldn't that be "triplicate"? (n/t)

;-)

[still_one]

14. yup, I have no idea how that happened either /nt

[still_one]

6. removed, duplicate /mt

[marions ghost]

10. It seems so disingenuous for her

to whip the crowd up like this, pretending everything is on track while the wheels are flying off.

Do the people in the crowd believe she still has a chance, or are they just being polite?

I don't have a feel for how big that disconnect really is. :shrug:

[Apollo11]

11. It's like Terry McAuliffe always says ....

"send money to HillaryClinton.com!"

[marions ghost]

16. yep

send money to hillaryclinton.com (but I wouldn't let any more of it go to Terry).

I guess you're right--they keep up the charade so the supporters continue to send whatever they can afford...dishonorable scam now. But dishonorable scams abound in America...bizniz as usual.

I once knew a really poor woman who regularly sent money to a well-known televangelist. There's often no rationality about it.

"Last day to send in your dollar" -- my Dad told me somebody once made thousands of dollars with that ad back in the 50's sometime.

[SeaLyons]

12. "Whoever She May Be"

Go Hillary!!

:kick:

[New Earth]

13. can she be more delusional?

omfg is this over yet? :puke:

[Araxen]

15. Looks like Hillary is the sexist one now.

[Apollo11]

18. I heard that Hillary recently used the word "he" to describe the next President.

So switching it to "she" is some kind of a jokey reference for the benefit of Clinton campaign insiders.

But most people watching the speech will not "get" the joke and just assume she has gone off the rails.

Imagine if Obama said: "until we have a nominee, whichever brother gets it". The media would freak!