We love you Hillary! We will help you crack that glass ceiling...18 million women voted for you -- that's 18 million cracks.
This one's for the girls. That was Hillary Rodham Clinton's message Saturday as she ended her presidential bid — a final, full-throated acknowledgment of what her pioneering quest had meant to women.
Clinton fought till there was almost nothing left. She was pressured to give it up. And in November Obama will have to fight without superdelegates to help him.
According to a Yahoo News today, it was a moving, genuine and unexpected moment for Clinton, who spent most of her campaign playing down her gender as a way to reassure voters who might have trouble imagining a female commander in chief.
Speaking to supporters at the National Building Museum here, Clinton finally seemed to jettison the counsel she'd received over the course of her 17-month campaign to be safe and non-controversial — advice that made her seem steely and dull and robbed her of the magic her barrier-breaking campaign might otherwise have had.
Also gone was the careful, poll-tested message of "strength and experience" she had pressed throughout the campaign, which emphasized her toughness at the expense of her humanity and warmth.
In defeat, the former first lady was finally free — and clearly eager to let it rip.
"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," Clinton said — a reference to the millions of voters who supported her in the primaries.
We will always love you Hillary Rodham Clinton. You are our girl. And e queers will never for a second doubt that you were tough enough to take the 3 a.m. phone call.
Clinton fought till there was almost nothing left. She was pressured to give it up. And in November Obama will have to fight without superdelegates to help him.
According to a Yahoo News today, it was a moving, genuine and unexpected moment for Clinton, who spent most of her campaign playing down her gender as a way to reassure voters who might have trouble imagining a female commander in chief.
Speaking to supporters at the National Building Museum here, Clinton finally seemed to jettison the counsel she'd received over the course of her 17-month campaign to be safe and non-controversial — advice that made her seem steely and dull and robbed her of the magic her barrier-breaking campaign might otherwise have had.
Also gone was the careful, poll-tested message of "strength and experience" she had pressed throughout the campaign, which emphasized her toughness at the expense of her humanity and warmth.
In defeat, the former first lady was finally free — and clearly eager to let it rip.
"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," Clinton said — a reference to the millions of voters who supported her in the primaries.
We will always love you Hillary Rodham Clinton. You are our girl. And e queers will never for a second doubt that you were tough enough to take the 3 a.m. phone call.
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