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Hugh Hewitt: Buyers' Remorse At The DNC
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — ... (the "can't deliver" language), and now Hillary was looking great and communicating one message: But for our crazy rules, I'd be the nominee and we'd be 15 point ahead. Poor Mark Warner --the keynote that wasn't. It was Hillary's night, and despite the assured nomination of Obama, it is looking like Hillary's week. Four years go by in a blink, and if Obama loses,Hillary will surely be the nominee in 2012. And there's no way Obama will have been vetted for her short list. UPDATE : The WaPo reports that many Hillary delegates remain uncommitted to Obama. Of course that's the ...

WaPo: Hillary inspired her delegates … to wish she had won
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Hillary Clinton gave a good effort in trying to close the sale for Barack Obama last night in the convention’s most anticipated speech.  According to the Washington Post’s Eli Saslow , it had a big impact on her delegates, but perhaps not what she or Obama anticipated.  Instead of inspiring them to join the Obama bandwagon, most of them pointed to the speech to show what the Democrats had lost in Hillary’s defeat: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s most loyal delegates came to the Pepsi Center on Tuesday night looking for direction. They listened, rapt, to a 20-minute speech that many ...

Snub-a-Dub-Dub... Bill Gives Barack the Rub
Gateway Pundit — ... theatrics are over. Barack watches Bill from Billings. (Reuters) CNN has the scoop: Hillary Clinton will be on hand for Barack Obama’s acceptance speech, but according to a source close to former President Bill Clinton, he will not: the source tells CNN that Clinton will not join his wife at Invesco Field Thursday night. Menawhile... Hillary Clinton supporters said the speech didn't heal.

Childish
Power Line — Last night, Hillary Clinton made a compelling case for why her supporters should support Barack Obama -- as president he'll do lots of things they like and John McCain won't. Clinton was in a great position because her case for Obama, though powerful, did not require her to praise him. Thus, I imagine, the speech wrote itself. As soon as it was over, though, we began to hear from core Clinton supporters at the convention that they are "still bitter." Many seem reluctant to devote much energy to the Obama campaign, but that won't worry Obama since he's hardly short of foot ...

This just in... speech didn't heal!
TigerHawk — Washington Post: For Clinton's supporters, it was difficult to accept her speech as the public finale of her campaign, because this moment once held such tremendous potential. Shelby Leary, a delegate from West Virginia, stood to watch a video tribute to Clinton's success as a trailblazer and then chanted "Hillary" for 30 seconds with the rest of the crowd. Anne Price, from Washington state, wore a dozen Clinton buttons and wiped tears from her eyes. It seemed a particularly resonant moment Tuesday night, which marked both Women's Equality Day and the 88th anniversary of women's ...

Clinton’s speech did bring us together—on one topic, at least
neo-neocon — Instapundit links to this Washington Post article entitled “Many Clinton Supporters Say Speech Didn’t Heal Divisions.” I beg to differ. On at least one major point, Clinton brought together not only the Democratic Party, but the entire nation—and for all I know, the world (after all, we must remember that “the whole world is watching“). What is that unifying topic? Her orange pantsuit. The vast majority of people—Hillary supporters and Hillary haters and those in the middle, Left and Right and ...

Circus Report: Day Three
Stubborn Facts — ... council meeting. Characteristically, Clinton seemed to want to do several things at once, and as a result did none of them especially well. She made the necessary appeal for unity; she took some shots at John McCain; and she thanked—rather perfunctorily and without much feeling, it seemed to me—the many supporters of hers who have caused so much hand-wringing and consternation. But it was hard to come away thinking that anything significant had changed. Many Clinton Supporters Say Speech Didn't Heal Divisions ...

Epic Fail
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — So, how did that Hillary Clinton speech go over? Let's look at the aftermath : Hillary Rodham Clinton's most loyal delegates came to the Pepsi Center on Tuesday night looking for direction. They listened, rapt, to a 20-minute speech that many proclaimed the best she had ever delivered, hoping her words could somehow unwind a year of tension in the Democratic Party. But when Clinton stepped off the stage and the standing ovation faded into silence, many of her supporters were left with a sobering realization: Even a tremendous speech couldn't erase their frustrations. Despite ...

Epic Fail
RedState: Conservative News and Community — So, how did that Hillary Clinton speech go over? Let's look at the aftermath: Hillary Rodham Clinton's most loyal delegates came to the Pepsi Center on Tuesday night looking for direction. They listened, rapt, to a 20-minute speech that many proclaimed the best she had ever delivered, hoping her words could somehow unwind a year of tension in the Democratic Party. But when Clinton stepped off the stage and the standing ovation faded into silence, many of her supporters were left with a sobering realization: Even a tremendous speech couldn't ...