Excerpts from an NPR article with commentary in red.
The one-time "inevitable" candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination ended her campaign Saturday with an unequivocal endorsement of her rival…
This can't be the completely unqualified, absolute buffoon she was running against, right? I mean, if that "red phone" is going to ring in the middle of the night, we don't that guy to be the one answering it, right?
"You can be so proud," she told the cheering crowd, "that, from now on, it will be unremarkable for a woman to win primary state victories, unremarkable to have a woman in a close race to be our nominee, unremarkable to think that a woman can be the president of the United States. And that is truly remarkable, my friends.” Nicely spun. Turn the loss into a win. Yes. What you achieved was truly remarkable. I flunked a test once…does that count? I just asked Roget, and “Rejected” and “Groundbreaking” are not synonyms.
Clinton likewise acknowledged the historic significance of Barack Obama becoming the first African-American to be the presidential nominee of a major party. Calling this a "turning-point election," she said, "When we first started, people everywhere asked the same questions: Could a woman really serve as commander-in-chief? Well, I think we answered that one." Yes. I believe we did. Don’t think I would have phrased it quite like that. You do understand that you are not the next president right? This isn’t an acceptance speech. I’m sorry. I really do hate to interrupt in the middle of a paragraph like this, but I just couldn’t help it. First of all, this is not, was not, and never will be about a woman being president. This was the question of you being President. To which the answer was “No”. "And, could an African-American really be our president? Sen. Obama has answered that one." No. He has not. That answer is scheduled for November. Once again, this is not an acceptance speech (and if it were, Hillary, it wouldn’t be for BOTH of you). "Together, Sen. Obama and I achieved milestones essential to our progress as a nation, part of our perpetual duty to form a more perfect union."
Umm... Sorry, one last question. Is union the root word for unity?
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