Live-Blogging Hillary Clinton's Speech with Fellow Bloggers!
by PunditMomI had planned on being at the Democratic National Convention this week with my fellow MOMocrats and the lovely Queen of Spain. But as I'm sure many of you can relate to, some family issues prevented me from making the trip.
But as you also can probably guess, that doesn't mean PunditMom isn't going to be covering the convention!
So, tonight, I will be hosting a liveblogging event at my home to cover Hillary Clinton's DNC speech! You won't just be getting my thoughts, though. My friends and fellow bloggers Cynthia, Nicole, Nancy, Jessica, KC and Jodi will also be providing their thoughts about her historic speech.
Another special guest expert will be weighing in, as well!
So, hang out here to get the updates on Hillary's speech! You KNOW there are going to be some good insights from this crowd!
Contributing Editor Joanne Bamberger blogs here and at her place as PunditMom. You can also find her political musings at MOMocrats, The Huffington Post and this week, as a special convention contributor at the Women's Campaign Forum blog.
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I'm looking forward to it
And I'm thrilled punditgirl will be joining in. Tell her that I'm particularly interested in her thoughts about Senator Clinton's speech.
~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager
Flamingo House Happenings
I'm at home too PunditMom
So you can count me in!
Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette
I'm looking forward to your
I'm looking forward to your live-blogging tonight!
my last post:
2 Reasons Why Women Should Vote for Obama
see you tonight!
That is if the kid goes to bed nicely! haha!
Just a quick FYI to new readers
BlogHer is a non-partisan org because our users are omnipartisan. At the recommendation of our community, BlogHer sent lefty bloggers to post about the DNC in Denver and will send righties to cover the RNC in Minneapolis-St. Paul. More here:
http://www.blogher.com/party-bloghers-plan-cover-democratic-republican-party-conventions
Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette
So glad you're live blogging it!
Since I can't be there tonight (so bummed! esp. to miss PunditGirl watching Hillary - so awesome) I will be reading with rapt attention your thoughts and insights PunditMom!
http://www.aparentinsilverspring.com
Here in the Denver Sheraton lobby
Not in the media tent at Pepsi tonight, alas...found a spot in the bar here, although CNN and CSPAN are on dueling tvs and it's maddening.
Looking forward to joining you.
Laurie
Looking forward to Hillary's speech tonight
I am sooo looking forward to this. I operate solely from a laptop as it is just so much more convenient for me. I am propped, prepped and ready for this historic event. I hope you guys have lots of fun and present all the points.
Roschelle Nelson
Be here
TV, Blogher and Twitter this is the best convention coverage EVAH!
~Susan
http://lilmomthatcould.com/
I'm already here!
My husband and I will be here and watching HRC together. Can't wait for it all to start!
Caroline
http://morningsidemom.wordpress.com/
Watching the warm up show and the best quote
thus far
to me is by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick: "Democrats don't deserve to win just because Republicans deserve to lose." Then he exhorts the crowd to work.
Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette
BlogHer is non-partisan but our bloggers aren't! Follow our coverage of the 2008 political conventions
Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is in the house
Never in my life thought I'd hear my home-state governor introduce the almost-nominee. And he's good! Lotta practice warming up all 920k of us...?
Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette
BlogHer is non-partisan but our bloggers aren't! Follow our coverage of the 2008 political conventions
Hillary Rodham Clinton mentions support of
Barack Obama asap
"Thank you! Thank you all. Thank you...
Thank you all very very much.
(repeat)
I am so honored to be here tonight
(It's so loud, she cannot be heard)
I'm here tonight as a proud mother, as a proud Democrat, as a proud senator from New York, a proud American and a proud supporter of Barack Obama.
My friends, it is time to take back the country we love. Whether you voted for me or you voted for Barack, the time is now to unite as a single party with a single purpose.
Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette
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More by HRC "No way. No how."
We are a team and none of us can afford to sit on the sidelines.
I haven't spent the past 35 years in the trenches advocating for children, campaigning for universal health care, helping parents balance work and family and fighting for women's rights here at home and around the world to see another Republican in the White House squander our promise of a country that really fulfills the hope of our people.
And you haven't worked so hard over the past 18 months or endured the past eight years to suffer more failed leadership.
No way. No how.
Barack Obama is my candidate. And he must be our president. Tonight I ask you to remember what a presidential election is really about. When the polls have closed and the ads are finally off the air, it comes down to you. The American people, your lives and your children.
Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette
BlogHer is non-partisan but our bloggers aren't! Follow our coverage of the 2008 political conventions
HRC: "To my sisters of the traveling pants
suits"
"To my supporters, to my champions, to my sisters of the traveling pantsuits. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
You never gave in and you never gave up."
Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette
BlogHer is non-partisan but our bloggers aren't! Follow our coverage of the 2008 political conventions
HRC: Were you in this campaign just for me or
were you in it for
Were you in this campaign just for me or were you in it for that Marine and others like him Were you in it for that young mom struggling with cancer? Were you in it ... for all the people in this country who feel invisible?
We need leaders once again who can tap into that special blend of American confidence and optimism. Leaders who can help us show the world that with our creativity and our ... there is no limit to what is possible in the world.
Now this will not be easy. It never is. But it will not be possible if we don't put a Democrat in the White House.
We have to elect Barack Obama to the White House.
...He knows that change in this country must start from the bottom up, not from the top down."
Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette
BlogHer is non-partisan but our bloggers aren't! Follow our coverage of the 2008 political conventions
response to hillary
her speech was great. she was right on topic and SO inspiring. Go Hillary.
DNLee
I feel like a grown up is in the house now
I guess I missed Hillary more than I thought!!
She is on fire!! And she's not talking about HER, she's talking about US.
Morra Aarons-Mele
www.womenandwork.org
Morra, you are right -
This is a fundamental shift in her message. Fundamental! Did you hear any of this in her last primary speeches? I don't think I did.
Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette
BlogHer is non-partisan but our bloggers aren't! Follow our coverage of the 2008 political conventions
Ditto
I commented on the exact same thing, Morra and Lisa re: the not focusing on her. Very very noticeable shift - though the Ohio male bloggers in the liveblog I was in were extremely hard on Hillary. I was not happy with them!
Jill
Writes Like She Talks
HRC: Seneca Falls, NY
"I'm a senator today because in 1848 a group of brave women gathered in Seneca Falls, NY..." Crowd goes wild as HRC celebrates 88th Amendment.
"My mother was born before women could vote. My daughter got to vote her mother for president. This is the story of America."
Now she's invoking "a brave New Yorker" Harriet Tubman.
"And even in the darkest moments, that is what America stands for. ...We're
"Before we can keep going, we've got to get going by electing Barack Obama the President of the United States. We don't have a moment to lose or a vote to spare. Nothing less than the future of this country hangs in the balance...We've got to make sure that the choice we make in this election honors the lives of all the people who came before us."
Lisa Stone
BlogHer Co-founder
Surfette
BlogHer is non-partisan but our bloggers aren't! Follow our coverage of the 2008 political conventions
Seneca Falls!
I got all emotional and teared up and felt... patriotic! when she mentioned Seneca Falls! How beautiful is that to have put before the nation in real life, as the important part of our history that it is.
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Liz Henry
lizzard@bookmaniac.net
Contributing Editor, World and Latin America
No Way, No How, No McCain - Hillary Speaks!
absolutely awesome. Hillary was on point tonight without a doubt. she did an excellent job from her opening with the thank you she gave to the "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuits" to the immortal words of Harriet Tubman...If you want to see freedom...KEEP GOING!!
Roschelle Nelson
Hillary's speech
I couldn't agree more: you hit my favorite points. Hillary responded well to Republican attempts to split the Democrats, trying to turn some Women and Blacks against each other, to end longtime-allied liberation movement interests. I don't think that's going to work, I'm proud to say!
ChangeGal
Hillary Clinton for President!
Her name may not be printed on the ballot, but that does NOT mean that we can't put it there! It is time for democrats to accomplish the improbable and show the government that WE THE PUBLIC are the ones who should control our nation's fate. We should show them that we WILL NOT BE forced into electing someone that we don't want as president. THIS IS A DEMOCRACY-- we have MORE THAN TWO OPTIONS FOR PRESIDENT. It is time to let our voices be HEARD for once, and actions speak louder than words! VOTE FOR HILLARY IN THE "OTHER" CATEGORY FOR PRESIDENT.
No, Hillary's not running
... I don't get it; but I don't have to. You weren't listening to Hillary Clinton, tonight; that's for sure. But McCain and King George would just LOVE you!
ChangeGal
ChangeGal YOU don't get it
She was the Perfect Person to be President. Sadly the misogynistic DNC pre-ordained that Obama would be the candidate and no matter what happened that was the way it was going to be. You should ask yourself one thing. Can 18 Million 800 thousand voters all be WRONG? I think not. We have a right to support Hillary Clinton to the end. However, I personally believe in my heart Obama will fail miserably and in 2012 Hillary will be the Choice as she should have been in 2008.
I have waited and worked in Dem politics for over 50 years for the opportunity to vote for a Woman for President. Far longer than any of the Obamaniacs have been around. I have a RIGHT to Want the Best in the White House. And in my lifetime I won't see it happen because the MEN and women haters like Richardson and McCaskill believe that only MEN belong in the White House.
My final comment to Claire McCaskill would be, where would YOU be today if it weren't for Hillary and Bill Clinton. I will tell you. Home baking apple pies and looking around for another meal ticket.
The truth hurts but I believe in speaking Truth to Power and politics.
I don't understand the demonization
The assumption that people who didn't vote for Hillary are misogynists is as untenable as the assumption that anyone who didn't vote for Obama is racist. There clearly was misogyny directed at Clinton (eg the "nutcracker") and there was racism directed at Obama (how many of his offices have been vandalized now>) However, there were also a lot of people who just thought someone else would make a better President.
Kim BlogHer Contributing Editor|Professor Kim|
Sadly, a Vote for Hillary would Void your
entire ballot
In California it is not possible to write in a candidate unless a write in vote has been approved by hundreds of thousands of voters names on a petition. I know. It is not democratic, but it is the way inCalifornia.
If you write in a name that isn't approved the entire ballot is void
I'm writing in Hillary for President
Hillary is the best candidate and will make the best president. I refuse to vote for anyone else.