latimesblogs.latimes.com - 8/26/2008
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She never spoke his name.
In a seven-minute speech to women supporters, Hillary Rodham Clinton urged voters to get behind “our nominees’’ but did not specifically mention her old rival, Barack Obama .
Clinton’s appearance in an outdoor courtyard here was a kind of time warp. Hundreds of supporters wore Clinton buttons and T-shirts and said they were heart-broken about her defeat in ...
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Hillary’s test run ignored Obama
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Hillary Clinton gave a preview of tonight’s speech for a group of supporters in Denver earlier today, and it didn’t feature Barack Obama — at all . Peter Nicholas covered the event for the LA Times, and reports that Hillary never asked her backers to support Obama, only urging their support for “all our nominees”. If that’s the strategy she takes tonight, the snub could be historic: She previewed the speech she is to deliver later tonight, saying, “I believe with all my heart that the Democratic Party represents a much better future for everything we believe in and care ...
Oh, for the love of the Clintons
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... to two-time presidential loser Adlai Stevenson; and that Hillary herself neglected to mention Obama in a speech to her supporters earlier in the day. ...
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