Looks like the goalposts got shipped to Australia...

[crimsonblue]

My notes from Hillary's MOMENTOUS speech...

2029 delegates..

my friends...

enormous decision...

i can lead this party to victory..

i don't envy you...

We have won millions and millions of votes...

we won in states that you need to be prepared to win in November...

It is a fact that no democrat has won the white house since 1960 without winning West Virginia.

The white house is won in the swing states...

We have done it by standing up for the deepest principles of our party...

With your help, I am ready to go head to head with John McCain...

I believe our party is strong enough for this challenge.. I am strong enough...

I ask you democrats to choose who you think is strongest in the fall and is ready to execute to office of president of the United States....

people who need someone who is fighting for them...

who have stood fast and stood strong...

for the millions of americans that know we can do better..

for the nurse on her second shift, for the worker on the line, for the waitress on her feet, for the small business owner, the farmer, the teacher, the coal miner, the trucker, the soldier, the veteran, the college student, ALL of the hard working men and women...

You will never quit, and I won't either...

(flails arms wildly)

(the women on her left looks like a toad)

(some tool is holding a bowling pin)

For me, this election isn't about who's in and who's out, who's up and who's down...

We are committed to putting a democrat back in the white house...

Our nominee will be stronger for having campaigned long and hard...

I will work my heart out for the nominee of the party...

As we look at the stakes in this election, I think we can all agree it's unprecedented...

It really does depend on those that will vote in the next contests...

If you give me a chance, democrats, I will come back to WV in the GE and we will win this state and win the white house...

I told him where I'd gone and what I seen...

I don't know if any man has loved a state more than Robert Byrd loves West Virginia...

A special thanks to my outstanding staff...

At least once and usually half a times a day Bill and I check in with each other...

I will be back...

(pandering to little old ladies)

Florence passed on a few days ago....

Thanks to Dalton Hatfield, who sold his bike and sold his video games to raise money to support my campaign...

Let's finish the job we started....

KO-- Terry McCaulife said it would be one of the greatest speeches of all time, and there it was, tied with the Sermon on the Mount. Part fundraiser, part invocation of Michigan and Florida, part cue for the confetti. Senator Clinton speaking to her supporters, delirious supporters.
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Ok have it... best. speech. evaar! snarkity snark snark.

[cliffordu]

1. YEP - absolutely correct.

If she were in third grade. Perfect.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. We have won millions and millions of votes...

Al Gore.

[mcctatas]

3. Maybe she saw that simpsons episode about the "Coriolis"

effect and figured that if toilets flush in the opposite direction in Australia maybe her candidacy would come up the toilet instead of getting flushed??

[Ravy]

4. I never got that "Hillary is moving goalposts" thing.

To me, all the Obama supporters, which includes the media, have been the ones moving the goalposts for him to less than half of the delegates.

Until a candidate reaches that threshhold, they are not the nominee. Yet, for months, even before Texas, the media and Obama supporters have been saying he has it locked up. She can't win.

She still can win, by convincing the superdelegates, who are going to decide this one way or another (Obama can't win without the superdelegates putting him over the number either) that she is the stronger candidate. That is the ROLE of the superdelegates, to choose who would would be the best candidate, rather than who got the most "pledged" delegates.

So the Obama supporters say Hillary is moving the goalposts every time she comes up with a reason that superdelegates should support her. That isn't moving the goalposts, that is trying to advance your case to reach half of the delegates.

Obama, on the other hand, is actually advocating moving the goalposts to say that "hey, when you get half of the pledged delegates + 1, you win. It has been an effective strategy for him, and in that sense, I applaud him. But, when you really think about it, accusing your opponent of doing what you are actually doing is the essense of Rovian tactics.

[crimsonblue]

5. so we're back to the superdelegates?

Whew... I got confused what with it being the pledged delegates, then the supers, then the automatic delegates, then big states, then swing states, then popular vote, then not popular vote, then 2209 delegates, then back to super delegates. thanks for clarifying that.