Posted on 06/08/2008 9:28:11 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
During the campaign, it was her opponent who owned the lofty rhetoric. But on the day she finally conceded defeat, it was Hillary Clinton's words that soared.
"As we gather here today," she told her supporters and staff members at the National Building Museum yesterday, "the 50th woman to leave this Earth is orbiting overhead. If we can blast 50 women into space, we will someday launch a woman into the White House."
Two hundred forty miles below the international space station, the midday sunlight pouring into the 100-foot-high atrium illuminated the thousands who had come to bid the Clinton presidential candidacy farewell: most of them women, many of them with young children, some of them in tears.
"Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it," the former candidate continued. "And the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time."
It will be up to the historians to ponder why Clinton waited until the very last day of her campaign to give full voice to the epochal nature of her candidacy. Through the Democratic primary race of 2008, she had played down the significance of being the first woman within reach of the presidency. It's tempting to wonder whether things would have turned out differently if she had embraced the theme earlier -- but there can be little doubt that her last speech of the campaign was also her best.
Yesterday brought the House of Clinton full circle. Fifteen years ago, one of Bill Clinton's first inaugural balls had been held in this same building, modeled on Roman palaces..........."
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... "why can't we blast them all?" You know half the men listening to her thought that.
When she said 18 million cracks, I was waiting for her to say “No pun intended”
Humility knows know "glass ceilings." Only ambition does.
Alas, when it comes to oppressed/privileged minorities. Race beats gender.
The Ace of Spades beats the Queen of Hearts. O.J. Simpson taught us that. Recall the feminists enforced silence over that affray. So outrageous that it convinced then-L.A.-chapter NOW head Tammy Bruce to abandon liberalism.
At what speed? I suggest 1000 fps.
I don’t recall much feminist outrage over what Muslims do to women either.
to the moon, alice
It’s hard to imagine someone with such a world-class IQ could emit such a gaffe. She must be in a state of stuned.
Everybody MUST get stuned
and from below, ross perot’s ‘giant sucking sound’ of NAFTA to complement the awkward metaphor. :)
A fat screechy lesbo in a crusty black pantsuit is not a likeable candidate.
I think Bill had at LEAST 50 women come to the White House!
When she said 18 million cracks, I was waiting for her to say “No pun intended”
thinking the same thing.....but we gotta be pc!!!!
During the campaign, it was her opponent who owned the lofty rhetoric. But on the day she finally conceded defeat, it was Hillary Clinton's words that soared.....Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, guess I'll go eat worms.
Long, thin, slimy ones; Short, fat, juicy ones, Itsy, bitsy, fuzzy wuzzy worms.Down goes the first one, down goes the second one, oh how they wiggle and squirm.
Up comes the first one, up comes the second one, oh how they wiggle and squirm.
I hope someone on Team Hillary hid all the ashtrays and screwed down the lamps as there will be hell to pay. And if I'm 'Barry' I'm having the Secret Service put a 24/7/365 tail on Harold Ickes and hiring a Food Taster stat. That psycho is pure evil. Some of it came out last week at that DNC Delegate pow-wow. He takes losing worse than Hillary.
What Hillary and her minions forget is that she is not a likable person, but simply a white Democrat. She offers no new vision for America, and is simply looking for a legacy that will exceed Bill’s. What a sorry life she faces now.
“When she said 18 million cracks, I was waiting for her to say, “No pun intended.”
LOL If I hadn’t stopped being such a bad boy years ago, I’d have thought the same! LOL
Well she must have fallen through those cracks as history shows she ain’t the first by far and won;t be the last. She remains nuthin but a tick on the butt of political posturing.
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