Clinton At DNC: No Way. No How. No McCain

Wow.

I am currently listening to the music as Hillary Clinton exits the stage after a tour de force speech that closed out the second night of the Democratic Convention. I was expecting something good from her, but I had no idea that she'd deliver such an incredible oration. As the last of 60 speakers tonight, she had a lot of great competition, but she stole the show.

From Hillary Clinton's speech:

I'm here tonight as a proud mother, as a proud Democrat, as a proud Senator from the state of New York, as a proud American, and as a proud supporter of Barack Obama....

I want you to ask yourselves: Were you in this campaign just for me? Or were you in it for that young Marine and others like him? Were you in it for that mom struggling with cancer while raising her kids? Were you in it for that boy and his mom surviving on the minimum wage? Were you in it for all the people in this country who feel invisible?...

It makes a lot of sense that next week John McCain and George Bush will be together in the Twin Cities, because these days they're awfully hard to tell apart.

There is so much more to that speech but those two three clips tell a lot. She performed at her very best and had the crowd and the country in awe. She embraced Barack Obama's candidacy because only he can come close to delivering her vision for America. Conversely, she slammed McCain for his lack of it and promised continuation of the last eight years. It was the perfect way to close out the night and she made it nearly impossible for Republicans to spin it in their favor. McCain spent a lot of money on ads that patronized her candidacy in order to fracture the party, but like his entire campaign, that was a fool's errand.