Selected excerpts from HRC’s speech at the DNC tonight…
I am honored to be here tonight. A proud mother. A proud Democrat. A proud American. And a proud supporter of Barack Obama.
I notice she didn’t say anything about being a proud wife…
I ran for President to renew the promise of America. To rebuild the middle class and sustain the American Dream, to provide the opportunity to work hard and have that work rewarded, to save for college, a home and retirement, to afford the gas and groceries and still have a little left over each month. To promote a clean energy economy that will create millions of green collar jobs. To create a health care system that is universal, high quality, and affordable so that parents no longer have to choose between care for themselves or their children or be stuck in dead end jobs simply to keep their insurance.
Why, after eight years as the first lady, was this universal health care thing not done during the Clinton presidency? What am I missing?
To create a world class education system and make college affordable again.
Harvard University… The most elite community college in the world.
To fight for an America defined by deep and meaningful equality – from civil rights to labor rights, from women’s rights to gay rights, from ending discrimination to promoting unionization to providing help for the most important job there is: caring for our families. To help every child live up to his or her God-given potential.
That unionization thing isn’t working all that well for those UAW fellas.
To bring fiscal sanity back to Washington and make our government an instrument of the public good, not of private plunder.
The public good, as defined by whom?
We need a President who understands that we can’t solve the problems of global warming by giving windfall profits to the oil companies while ignoring opportunities to invest in new technologies that will build a green economy.
How exactly is the GWB doing that now? By NOT nationalizing the oil companies? I like the green economy thing. Right out of the NDP playbook. It worked for the.. never mind.
He’ll transform our energy agenda by creating millions of green jobs and building a new, clean energy future. He’ll make sure that middle class families get the tax relief they deserve. And I can’t wait to watch Barack Obama sign a health care plan into law that covers every single American.
What exactly is a “green job” and who creates it? And at what cost? As for the health care plan, good luck with that, BHO.
Now, John McCain is my colleague and my friend. He has served our country with honor and courage. But we don’t need four more years . . . of the last eight years. More economic stagnation …and less affordable health care. More high gas prices …and less alternative energy. More jobs getting shipped overseas …and fewer jobs created here. More skyrocketing debt …home foreclosures …and mounting bills that are crushing our middle class families. More war . . . less diplomacy. More of a government where the privileged come first …and everyone else comes last. John McCain says the economy is fundamentally sound. John McCain doesn’t think that 47 million people without health insurance is a crisis. John McCain wants to privatize Social Security. And in 2008, he still thinks it’s okay when women don’t earn equal pay for equal work.
Remind again. How did GWB create all those bad things in the economy? And when did McCain think it OK for women not to earn equal pay for equal work? I missed that handout.
Now the one thing HRC did not mention is that she thought BHO would be the best person for the job of President, or that he would make a well qualified Commander-In-Chief. That was noticably absent.
HRC played her part to help unite the Democrats, but she didn’t make any extra effort.
I think she’s waiting for 2012. Or for the USSR to rise again…
