I liked the part about cracks in the glass ceiling and that's how progress is always made.

Whether I vote for Obama or not, how Club Obama in every sphere has abused Sen Clinton and 18 million supporters will be what I've taken away from this.

Sen Clinton earned big cred during her run and she can write her own ticket from hereon out.

You have overwhelmingly reported fairly on this campaign. A credential not shared by other blogs or most members of the MSM.

You and Hillary clearly love the Party and ideals that it represents. Sadly I no longer do  . . .

I eagerly await a similar show of political grace and respect from Obama, and his supporters.

Funny but I didn't hear one pundit acknowledge any of her speeches this year.  Now that she said what THEY wanted her to say I bet they it was ok.

And then they will start blaming her that she is just suspending even though history says that is the norm.

lather rinse repeat.

Counting on Clinton and unwavering in my support for her and her only.

I feel emotionally wrung out.

It's also a VERY smart speech...brilliant, I'd say.  A political speech in every way.

Wow.  Just wow.

The thing is, though...while she's a leader, I am not a follower.  Too much Irish to forgive and forget the Obama campaign's treatment of Hillary, of Bill's presidency, of the voters...

She'll be back in '12 if there is any justice in this world.  

Compare Mitt Romney's speech at CPAC that people on the right went gaga over. The argument there was, vote for McCain or the terrorists will kill you. With different words, but that was the bottom line.

This, on the other hand, was a visionary speech that  unified the historical imports of electing a female and electing a black president: They are different aspects of one and the same struggle (that we've treated them as incompatible and irreconcilable projects over the last few months has been enormously dispiriting). And she enunciated a powerful positive argument for electing Barack Obama, very lightly hinting at the perils of failing to support him, but mostly identifying her cause with his cause. All the changes and repairs we have been struggling to make in the country and the world, she argued, Senator Obama is struggling for them too. My "we" is his "we"; yes, we can.

Of course it was very sad to see right after that speech the pundits on MSNBC bashed her yet again. I don't think they can let go. They made it clear yet again that if Obama doesn't win it will be all Hillary's fault. That meme only makes Obama look very, very weak in my opinion. With friends like these. Jeffery Tubin even came out and said they'll need to push (I won't say the word implied there) Chelsea be used to campaign vigorously for Obama. These guys just don't stop.

If she sticks to this positive tone, then even if Senator Obama somehow loses, no blame can be cast in Senator Clinton's direction.

More to the point, if she sticks to this positive tone, then I believe we will, all of us, celebrate a truly historic victory this November.

I also loved her emphasis on the rights of gay and straight.  

And no it does not make me feel any better at all to point that out.

That is a great woman, and I'm proud to have supported her and I look forward to the future with her as one of the leaders of our country whether she's senator, vice president, or some other force.  

After that speech I cannot imagine her as anything but Obama's running mate. They will be unstoppable, and a force to be reckoned with in the Senate and on the international front. The two of will easily reverse the damage done to America from 7 years of cowboy politics.

And that woman in particular (Hillary Clinton) hasn't been any boon to women's issues (I know her record thoroughly and I believe that anyone who thinks Clinton is a champion for women doesn't know her record).  

I'd call you an idiot, but BTD would have to delete it. Instead, I'll say you are sadly uninformed.

If you would read her posts, you would know that Jeralyn is at a conference see speaks at.

Hillary Rodham Clinton has worked for more than thirty years to empower women and their families, as a lawyer, as a first lady, and as a senator-- by fighting so that we can access Plan B, so that our bodily integrity is respected, so that low-income women have access to schools, to child care, to health care, to jobs, to fair pay, to micro-financing so they can start their own businesses when society tells them to quit. And her campaign for President has been living proof of the value of fighting hard on the issues and never letting anyone else define you.

Even when weaselly Dems like Nancy Pelosi whined at her to be a good girl and not make waves, she went to China in 1995 and made the best speech ever about women's rights, right in the faces of those powerful world leaders who daily try to keep us all down. Because as she said,

"If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights once and for all. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely -- and the right to be heard."

I only hope her detractors realize what what a class act she is.  She is a woman, a politician and an American who displays integrity, intelligence and competence.  

There should be more like her.  

Sadly, much of her speech defined the woman's place in our society as win/lose, us v them.

I think if you define a woman elected to potus as a "win" for women, then it will never be unremarkable.

And imo, there will never be a woman president until such a thing is unremarkable.

She energized both those who desperately want a woman potus, and, I think, those who desperately don't want one.