万花筒 2008-08-29&08-31 希拉里力挺奥巴马

First we wanna talk about Hillary Clinton’s big night. How did it go, it will be analyzed 1 all day long. NBC’s chief White House correspondent David Gregory is here in the Convention Center and he’s got more on that. David, good morning to you.

Good morning, Matt. In a rousing speech, Senator Clinton sought to unite the party behind Barack Obama, even if she took pains to preserve her own political future.

She showed up and brought the house down, in the final chapter of her own historic race for the White House, Senator Clinton said the words Barack Obama needed to hear.

And whether you voted for me or you voted for Barack, the time is now, to unite as a single party with a single purpose. Barack Obama is my candidate, and he must be our president.

During the campaign, she complained about sexism, but at the convention she was more playful when speaking to her staunchest supporters. 

To my sisterhood of the traveling pantsuits, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

But with lingering doubts about whether her backers would line up behind Obama, Clinton says to the issues at stake in this election were too big to sit on the sidelines.

I want you to ask yourselves, were you in this campaign just for me?

He husband looked on with obvious pride, as she rallied democrats 2 by reminding them about the economic accomplishments 3 of his presidency 4.

As I recall, we did it before with President Clinton and the democrats, and if we do our part, we’ll do it again with President Obama and the democrats.

The former president speaks tonight, amid concerns within the party that he has not yet got over his wife’s loss.

This was not just a signal to her supporters, but maybe a signal to her husband too that the time has come to go all out for Barack Obama.

Republicans are working to court Clinton’s supporters this week by reminding them of her attacks against Obama during the primaries.

I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience he’ll bring to the White House, and Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.

But Senator Clinton made her wishes clear.

No way, no how, no McCain

She argued that a president McCain would represent more of the Bush years, more war, more job losses, more inadequate 5 health care coverage 6.

It makes perfect sense that George Bush and John McCain will be together next week in the twin cities because these days they are awfully 7 hard to tell apart.

When it was over, Senator Obama campaigning in Montana called the Clintons, and pronounced himself satisfied and grateful.

I think she made the case for why we are gonna be unified 8 in November and why we are gonna win this election. I know she was outstanding.

Tonight, a test of this new found unity 9 on the convention floor, Hillary Clinton’s name will be put into nomination 10, so that her supporters, delegates here at the convention can’t vote for her for president. But she herself is expected the cut-off that voting at some point, so that Barack Obama can officially be named the nominee 11 by acclamation or unanimous consent. Matt.

Alright, David, thanks very much, David Gregory here in Denver with us.