No News from Hillary

PunditMom — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:47:02 -0500

As Tuesday wore on, it became clear that by the end of the night that Barack Obama would be the "presumptive" presidential nominee for the Democratic party.

Superdelegates were dropping like flies throughout the day, declaring their fealty to Obama, after being afraid to for months.

And there were two big speeches -- one from Hillary and one from Barack. Yes, McCain made one too, to try to horn in on the air-time, but it wasn't all that.

But Hillary Clinton put on her best game face, and wearing her most radiant royal blue pantsuit, stepped in front of her home state crowd to declare that the Democratic party is the one that counts every vote (read: Florida in 2000), that she's committed to uniting the Democratic party so it can take back the White House in November and that there would be no decision tonight about what her plans would be going forward.

No concession speech was given, even though Obama landed the majority of delegates to take the party's nomination. There were no veiled pleas by Clinton to be the VP candidate (though there are those who say that's what she's working for) and she gave no impassioned speech about what this country stands for, though she did come close when she spoke about the record numbers of voters who have come out to the polls this year.

MSNBC's resident misogynist Chris Matthews said before Hillary's speech, "I don't think she'll disband her army until she gets what she wants." So, Chris, what would that be?

A bigger platform for women's issues and things that families worry about like decent child care and health insurance? Hillary committed to that. That's a nice place to start. She said wants to taking back the White House and that she will continue the fight for universal health care. What's wrong with that?

Hillary may have been a flawed candidate from the start, but her ideas are ones that Obama would do well to pay attention to.

Clinton is still going to be in the Senate and if Obama is ultimately elected President of the United States, he'll need her help -- big time-- with his agenda.

Obama had his night tonight. I suspect Hillary will find a way to have a bigger moment sometime in the next few days before she steps off the presidential stage.

And then it will be time to move on toward Denver.

Joanne is a Contributing Editor for Politics & News. You can also find her political thoughts at PunditMom and MOMocrats.

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