Clinton: "No Way. No How. No McCain"

Former Democratic Candidate Says Obama "Is My Candidate And He Must Be Our President"

(CBS/AP)  Hillary Rodham Clinton summoned millions of voters who supported her in the primaries to send Barack Obama to the White House Tuesday night, declaring in a Democratic National Convention speech that the man who defeated her "is my candidate and he must be our president."

"We don't have a moment to lose or a vote to spare," the former first lady added in her prime time address. (Watch Clinton's Speech | Text)

The packed convention floor became a sea of white "Hillary" signs as the New York senator strode to the podium.

While her remarks included a full-throated endorsement of Obama, she did not indicate whether she would have her name placed in nomination or seek a formal roll call of the states when the nomination is awarded by delegates on Wednesday night.

Calling herself a "proud supporter of Barack Obama, she dismissed Republican John McCain with a few choice words.

"No way. No how. No McCain," she said, prompting the hall to erupt in cheers. "We don't need four more years... of the last eight years."

"Hillary Clinton did just about everything she needed to do in this speech to help heal what divisions remain in this party," said CBSNews.com senior poltical editor Vaughn Ververs. "She was unequivocal in her support for Obama and critical in her assessment of John McCain and the Republican Party. Barack Obama couldn't have wanted much more." (Read Ververs' analysis of Clinton's speech)

Like other failed candidates at conventions past, Clinton recalled her own quest for the White House.

"You taught me so much, you made me laugh and... you even made me cry," she said to supporters in the Pepsi Center and millions more watching on nationwide television.

"You allowed me to become part of your lives, and you became part of mine."

Clinton attempted to reach out to those voters who supported her in the primaries but are not sold on Obama. In a CBS News/New York Times poll conducted earlier this month, more than 40 percent of Clinton supporters said they would vote for McCain or were undecided.

"I want you to ask yourselves: Were you in this campaign just for me?" she said. She urged them instead to remember Marines who have served their country, single mothers, families barely getting by on minimum wage and other struggling Americans.

"You haven't worked so hard over the last 18 months, or endured the last eight years, to suffer through more failed leadership,"

Despite some delegates' lingering resentment over Clinton's loss, party chairman Howard Dean said earlier the convention was determined to make Obama the nation's 44th president. "There is not a unity problem. If anyone doubts that, wait till you see Hillary Clinton's speech," he said earlier Tuesday.

Meanwhile, fellow Democrats who spoke to the convention delegates ripped into McCain as indifferent to the working class and cozy with big oil.

"If he's the answer, then the question must be ridiculous," New York Gov. David Paterson said of the Republican presidential candidate.

By contrast, Obama will "appeal to us not as Republicans or Democrats, but first and foremost as Americans," former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner said in the convention's keynote address. "We need leaders who see our common ground as sacred ground." (Watch Warner's speech | Text)

"Call the roll!" urged Ted Sorensen, a party elder eager to propel Obama toward the White House as the first black president.

Not yet. Obama's formal nomination was set for Wednesday night.

In contrast to many of Tuesday's earlier speeches delivered out of prime time, Warner's remarks dwelt more on a vision of the post-partisan possibilities of an Obama administration than on criticism of McCain and President Bush.

"I know we're at the Democratic National Convention, but if an idea works, it really doesn't matter if it has an 'R' or 'D' next to it," he said.

As keynoter, Warner's task was the same one that Obama - then an Illinois state lawmaker running for the U.S. Senate - used four years ago to launch his astonishing ascent in national politics.

Obama, meanwhile, campaigned in Missouri Tuesday, slowly making his way toward the convention city - and wasting no opportunity to continue the attack on his opponent, reported CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic.

"I just don't think he gets it. He is out of touch. I don't think he realizes what ordinary American families are going through," Obama said at an overhaul base for American Airlines in Kansas City, Mo. (Read more on Obama's remarks)

It was more of that sentiment - much more - as a parade of speakers criticized McCain at the convention several hundred miles away.

Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said the Republican has voted against "real sex education, voted against affordable family planning. And if elected, John McCain has vowed to appoint Supreme Court justices who will overturn Roe v. Wade," she said, referring to the landmark 1973 case that affirmed women's right to abortion.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland focused on economic issues. "While families are losing sleep tonight trying to figure out some way to make their paycheck stretch through one more day, John McCain is sleeping better than ever," he said, recalling that McCain had recently said Americans were better off because of President Bush's policies.

[cleever2]

www.nowaynohownobama.com

[cleever2]

Hillary had a great sound bite/slogan but it flows much better with Obama...www.nowaynohownobama.com

[mandylou4u]

Just a last thought: Obama is not African American, he is half white half black. The news outlets like to call him African American because it''s more controversial.

[jackdems]

Somebody want to tell Obama that were in America, its called freedom of speech!

%u201CHaving failed in its attempts to get our legal, factual and fully-supported ad off the air, Barack Obama%u2019s campaign now wants to put our donors in prison for exercising their right to free speech," said Ed Martin, American Issues Project%u2019s president. %u201CThese over-the-top bullying tactics are reminiscent of the kind of censorship one would see in a Stalinist dictatorship, with the only difference being that those guys generally had to wait until they were in power to throw people who disagreed with them into jail.%u201D

In addition to two letters sent to the Department of Justice asking the government to investigate American Issues Project, its officers, board of directors, and donors, the Obama campaign has been contacting stations running American Issues Project%u2019s ad in an unsuccessful attempt to compel them to pull the spot.

[alanrobisch]

Neither will rants about southern white trailor trash or calling other Americans fascists as so many liberal posters do on this site.


Posted by realpatriot1 at 07:41 PM : Aug 27, 2008
+ report abus

Amen I came here originally to exchange ideas but as you have said it becomes often attacks that are meaningless and just an attempt to hurt or insult another person

[misha128-2009]

Posted by realpatriot1 at 07:41 PM

The vast majority of those that use the word fascist in their posts do not understand the meaning of the word and I have seen in from both sides.

[realpatriot1]

Minuteman-5,

I don''t disagree about the intolerance of the left but it isn''t just the left.

I''ve been called a traitor, an American hater, a fake Christian, a wuss, and just about every other name imaginable just because I had a different opinion about what was best for America.

I wasn''t brought up to take that kind of *** laying down and I''m sure you weren''t either. It feeds upon itself and soon the conversations regress from respectful disagreements to personal and ugly pissing contests. I''ve been sucked in quite a bit more than i''m proud of and I''m certain that most of those on both the left and the right fell that way at times.

That''s why it''s nice when every once in awhile we can disagree without being disagreeable.

Try to understand that there are people like myself who honestly believe as much as you do that the candidate and agenda that we support is what will best help the country and it will be easier to feel the same about you.

It doesn''t help when a candidate who promised to run a respectful campaign says that Democrats would rather lose a war than lose an election-that''s not the kind of leadership that''s going to heal the nation''s wounds. Neither will rants about southern white trailor trash or calling other Americans fascists as so many liberal posters do on this site.

[forevertru-2009]

Obama 8=====)~~~~O: The Democratic Party

[misha128-2009]

I''ll be interested in seeing how open minded the Republicans are when John McCain chooses Joe Lieberman for his VP.

[forevertru-2009]

NOW IT GETS NASTY....REAL NASTY!

[tothestars2]

Yeah, I still am undecided, but I feel the same way I did when I voted , the one and only time for a demo, for Clinton''s first term.

[redwhtblue2]

Liberalism only appears to be open to ideas and tolerant, as long as you are liberal, if you are conservative, then libs get drunk on the hater-aid



Posted by Minuteman-5 at 06:32 PM : Aug 27, 2008

Yeah, it''''s sad, I used to believe in the democratic ideals until they went to far to the left, now I''''m stuck in the middle with no political ground to stand on. It seems both parties believe in the with us or against us mentallity.


Posted by tothestars2 at 06:38 PM : Aug 27, 2008

Both parties have failed the Country in many ways but the neocons are out of control and need to be removed John McCain isn''t willing to stand up against them the only way to bring some sanity back to Washington is to elect a Democrat and although Obama wouldn%u2019t make my top ten McCain doesn''t make a top twenty list.

Pelosi and Reid must go as the leaders of both the HOUSE and SENATE IMO also

[tothestars2]

that was great, she got in one last cackle lmao

[redwhtblue2]

FYI-poopus123,

Sorry! The search criteria that you entered, republican conservative Christian..., does not yield any results in the KJV.

republican conservative Christian

That must be a cult

[tothestars2]

Liberalism only appears to be open to ideas and tolerant, as long as you are liberal, if you are conservative, then libs get drunk on the hater-aid


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Posted by Minuteman-5 at 06:32 PM : Aug 27, 2008

Yeah, it''s sad, I used to believe in the democratic ideals until they went to far to the left, now I''m stuck in the middle with no political ground to stand on. It seems both parties believe in the with us or against us mentallity.

[realpatriot1]

Minuteman-5,

I''m not holding out any hope of you becoming a liberal, but that''s OK. I enjoy the interchange because you''re a principled conservative and you''re generally civil to talk to(as much as anyone on this site is). That''s appreciated even when we strongly disagree.

I don''t think Biden is necessarily a bad choice but he wasn''t my first hope. I would''ve preferred Jack Reed.

If you didn''t listen to Hillary''s speech and you have to get an impression from the filter of the talking heads, i can tell you it wasn''t all about her. In fact, she talked about vets and their families and asked "were you in this just for me or were you in this for them?"

I''ve never considered Hillary to be a principled person but she gave a principled speech last night; it was her best moment in her political career, in my opinion.

[mandylou4u]

lib7er7al (lbr-l, lbrl)
adj.
1.
a. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry.
b. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
c. Of, relating to, or characteristic of liberalism.
d. Liberal Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political liberalism, especially in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States.
2.
a. Tending to give freely; generous: a liberal benefactor.
b. Generous in amount; ample: a liberal serving of potatoes.
3. Not strict or literal; loose or approximate: a liberal translation.
4. Of, relating to, or based on the traditional arts and sciences of a college or university curriculum: a liberal education.
5.
a. Archaic Permissible or appropriate for a person of free birth; befitting a lady or gentleman.
b. Obsolete Morally unrestrained; licentious.
n.
1. A person with liberal ideas or opinions.
2. Liberal A member of a Liberal political party.
Just thought I would help out some. I was kinda confused too.

[redwhtblue2]

Sounds just like what the dummy dems have been saying about Iraq for the last 5 years...but now, they know they are wrong and now have egg on their faces......dont they? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA



Posted by poopus123 at 06:25 PM : Aug 27, 2008

Iraq is a mess you hide the facts

Over 1 million innocent Iraq''s have been killed
Over 1.5 displaced
The economy is going to take years to rebound
Unemployment is still over 80%
The US has spent over 1 trillion dollars
The US has lost over 4000 service men
The US military has over 200,000 men and women that have suffered long disabilities
The US military suicide rate is the highest ever
Iraq''s electrical grid is out in over 60 percent of country
Iraq''s water and sewer systems are in need of repair it will take years to fix
Roads and cities in shambles


You don%u2019t know what Iraq is going to be like in 2009 and beyond

[minuteman-5]

liberal, doesn''''t that mean open minded, tolerant to others ideas, free from bigotry? that doesn''''t come anywhere near describing condumb.


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Posted by tothestars2 at 06:29 PM

Liberalism only appears to be open to ideas and tolerant, as long as you are liberal, if you are conservative, then libs get drunk on the hater-aid

[tothestars2]

liberal, doesn''t that mean open minded, tolerant to others ideas, free from bigotry? that doesn''t come anywhere near describing condumb.