Here is what Senator Clinton is saying now:

Over the course of this campaign, I have seen the promise of America in your courage and character, your energy and ingenuity, and your compassion and faith.

Your spirit has inspired me every day in this race. While I traveled this country talking about how I wanted to help you -- time and again, you reached out to help me. To grab my hand or grip my arm, to look me in my eyes and tell me, don’t quit, keep fighting, stay in this race for us. There were days when I had strength enough for the both of us -- and on the days I didn't, I leaned on you.

This has always been your campaign, and tonight, there's no one I want to hear from more than you. I hope you're as proud as I am of what we've done and that you'll take a moment to share your thoughts with me now at my website.

I want to congratulate Senator Obama and his supporters on the extraordinary race that they have run. Senator Obama has inspired so many Americans to care about politics and empowered so many more to get involved, and our party and our democracy are stronger and more vibrant as a result.

Whatever path I travel next, I promise I will keep faith with you and everyone I have met across this good and great country. There is no possible way to thank you enough for everything you have done throughout this primary season, and you will always be in my heart.

Sincerely,

Hillary Rodham Clinton




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On Edit: I thought to post this because HOPEFULLY it will cut down on the bitch/cunt comments. I think she is quite
complimentary to Senator Obama here.

She lost. Is it necessary to be so rude to her supporters, to whom this means something? Allow them the dignity of a COURTEOUS
and HAPPY DU tonight.

Quite a few Americans heard something else entirely in her speech this evening from New York.

Hate to say... I missed every speech tonight because I got a phone call.
I saw the first 2 minutes of McLame's before the phone rang & then missed everything else.
Well, I saw them.. but the tv was muted so I got nothing.
I'm trying to catch up now

:(

and congratulated Senaor Obama on his securing the nomination.

She declined.

I think that decision is going to cost her dearly in the days to come.

From Andrew Sullivan tonight, an Obama-supporting Republican:

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The speech tonight was a remarkable one for a candidate who has lost the nomination, though not remarkable for a Clinton. It was an assertion that she had won the nomination and a refusal to concede anything to her opponent. Classless, graceless, shameless, relentless. Pure Clinton.

Her narcissism requires that she deprive her opponent of a night, or a second, of gratification or attention. And she has now won, in her Bush-like version of reality, 18 million votes. Her invitation for her supporters to email their suggestions to her website is pure theater, a way of keeping herself in the spotlight and maneuvering her delegates to demand a second spot on the ticket. The way she is now doing this - by an implicit threat, backed by McCain, to claim that Obama is an illegitimate nominee if she does not get her way - is designed to humiliate the nominee sufficiently to wound him enough to lose the election.

Either way, she is clearly intent on getting Obama defeated this fall if she is not offered the vice-presidency. And if she gets the veep nod, the way she has gotten it will allow her to argue that a November loss was not her loss. It was his. And she will run again in 2012.

She will not go away. The Clintons will never go away. And they will do all they can to cripple any Democrat who tries to replace them. In the tent or out of it, it is always about them. And they are no longer rivals to Obama; they are threats.

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I was taught to be humble in defeat.

:hi:

Are you SURE?

I've only seen Hillary supporters using those words.

He's even passed the delegates needed for Hillary's magic number.

She said nothing.

He is the First African-American nominee for the Presidency. This is historic, and I think she could have been a bit more magnanimous. This has been an historic (if crazy) primary election season-the first female candidate and the first African-American candidate. Democrats do rock.

Second thoughts don't count.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5he59ddWydflHq-SUqPAFYXFlxw_wD9130FSG0

Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you all so much. Thank you, and thanks so much to South Dakota. You had the last word in this primary season, and it was worth the wait.

I want to start tonight by congratulating Senator Obama and his supporters on the extraordinary race that they have run.

Senator Obama has inspired so many Americans to care about politics and empowered so many more to get involved. And our party and our democracy is stronger and more vibrant as a result. So we are grateful.

And it has been an honor to contest these primaries with him, just as it is an honor to call him my friend. And, tonight, I would like all of us to take a moment to recognize him and his supporters for all they have accomplished.......

you would not be seeing the anger currently being expressed on DU.

BTW, posts using the two appalling descriptors you have included in your OP might have totaled two, maybe three among thousands. Unacceptable in any number, to be sure, but those appalling descriptors were NOT predominant on DU by ANY measure.

The Hillary diehards are being duped by the couple from Arkansas. As soon as you sign her "petition," you're whisked away to a donation page.

:rofl:

This is about money, and nothing more, and nothing less. Pathetic. And you're being played like violins, most of you. :-)

She could have done a bit of that in her speech. She didn't.

She's spinning a "I wuz robbed!" myth, and McCain's got her back by claiming in his speech today that his opponent was chosen by pundits and the mainstream media. :eyes:

results.....

Quit laughing, I'm serious;)

That's what you say in a VICTORY speech. To the other candidate.

Yes, she lost. But there's absolutely no acknowledgment of that, anywhere, in anything she's said.

She still thinks she's won, or barring that, that it was "stolen" from her.

and I'm sure I could have missed a post or two tonight (or 20 or 30) but I have never seen anyone call her a cunt or a bitch :shrug:

And some of them had further modifying adjectives in front of them.