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Hillary Does Her Duty
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — Hillary hit most all the right notes tonight, and she hit them with authority. Obama supporters should be more than happy with Clinton's speech, and by the reaction of the crowd in the hall, they were. If there is one thing the Obama folks could take issue with, however, it's the one Michael Crowley pointed out as soon as we were handed a copy of her prepared text: she did not say Obama was ready to be Commander in Chief. The McCain campaign noticed this omission as well, and they wasted no time pointing it out with an email blast from spokesman Tucker Bounds directly ...

Night Two Reax
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Ramesh Ponnuru thinks: "Obamaphiles can't reasonably complain about Clinton's speech." Wanna bet? Crowley: I'll amend this if I'm mistaken but on first read of Hillary's speech text I see no clear, flat assertion that Obama is qualified and prepared to be commander in chief from day one, which of course was always her central critique of him. That was something I had expected to see. Jim Geraghty: I agree with the rapidly-emerging conventional wisdom that she did everything he could ...

Hillary Clinton and the Bare Minimum
The Corner on National Review Online — ... pointed out, said just enough about Obama. You can imagine Bill and Hillary, when the speech was being drafted, putting the stuff about Obama on a scale, and calibrating it word for word, syllable by syllable, until they had reached the perfect bare minimum about Obama. Michael Crowley thinks she didn't want to appear insincere, but that's never stopped her before. What wasn't in the speech anything remarkable, personal, or truly warm about Obama speaks eloquently of how she still feels toward him. Consider this passage: And when Barack Obama is in the White House, he'll ...

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The Opinionator — ... ” And after reading the text of the speech, The New Republic’s Michael Crowley was disappointed to see “ new">no clear, flat assertion that Obama is qualified and prepared to be commander in chief from day one , which of course was always her central critique of him. That was something I had expected to see.”