On Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama claimed the Democratic presidential nomination following an epic battle with Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Barack Obama’s speech in Minnesota
With a victory in the Montana Democratic primary, Obama captured the 2,118 delegates needed to be nominated at the party’s convention in August. After the polls closed in Montana and South Dakota, the Obama campaign also announced the endorsement of 26.5 superdelegates.
This marks, as the Obama campaign quoted the Washington Post, “an historic achievement that for the first time will place an African American at the top of a major political party’s ticket“.
“You chose to listen not to your doubts or your fears, but to your greatest hopes and highest aspirations,” Obama declared in his speech in St. Paul. “Tonight, we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another — a journey that will bring a new and better day to America. Because of you, tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States.”
Hillary Clinton’s speech in New York
During a speech to supporters in New York, Clinton commended Obama and acknowledged her path to the nomination had closed. However, she did not leave the race.
Clinton won South Dakota’s Democratic primary and during her speech, commented that she had received nearly 18 million votes. “Even when the pundits and the naysayers proclaimed week after week that this race was over, you kept on voting.”
“Now, the question is, Where do we go from here, and given how far we’ve come and where we need to go as a party, it’s a question I don’t take lightly,” Clinton said. “This has been a long campaign, and I will be making no decisions tonight.”
She said she’d be speaking with party officials about her next move and also presented her case that she was the stronger candidate and argued she had won the popular vote.
According to a source on a conference call earlier Tuesday with Clinton and NY lawmakers, Clinton said she would be interested in serving as Obama’s running mate. The Clinton campaign, however, says she merely said she would do whatever is in the party’s best interest. The source added that everyone on the call thought Clinton needed to be on the ticket.
Barack Obama’s speech in Minnesota
With a victory in the Montana Democratic primary, Obama captured the 2,118 delegates needed to be nominated at the party’s convention in August. After the polls closed in Montana and South Dakota, the Obama campaign also announced the endorsement of 26.5 superdelegates.
This marks, as the Obama campaign quoted the Washington Post, “an historic achievement that for the first time will place an African American at the top of a major political party’s ticket“.
“You chose to listen not to your doubts or your fears, but to your greatest hopes and highest aspirations,” Obama declared in his speech in St. Paul. “Tonight, we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another — a journey that will bring a new and better day to America. Because of you, tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States.”
Hillary Clinton’s speech in New York
During a speech to supporters in New York, Clinton commended Obama and acknowledged her path to the nomination had closed. However, she did not leave the race.
Clinton won South Dakota’s Democratic primary and during her speech, commented that she had received nearly 18 million votes. “Even when the pundits and the naysayers proclaimed week after week that this race was over, you kept on voting.”
“Now, the question is, Where do we go from here, and given how far we’ve come and where we need to go as a party, it’s a question I don’t take lightly,” Clinton said. “This has been a long campaign, and I will be making no decisions tonight.”
She said she’d be speaking with party officials about her next move and also presented her case that she was the stronger candidate and argued she had won the popular vote.
According to a source on a conference call earlier Tuesday with Clinton and NY lawmakers, Clinton said she would be interested in serving as Obama’s running mate. The Clinton campaign, however, says she merely said she would do whatever is in the party’s best interest. The source added that everyone on the call thought Clinton needed to be on the ticket.
1 comment:
Will somebody pleeeeeeeese tell Hill/Bill it over!!!
Like one Politcal commentater said they are the IKe and Tina of Polictics, they never do anything nice and easy, they do everthing nice and rough.
and if you ask me if she should be the VP , answer is No way. and as another political commentator said if he does choose her , he better hire a food taster at the white house!
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