In his coverage of Hillary’s preview speech for the LA Times, Peter Nicholas reports that Hillary never asked her audience to support Obama, however, she did urge support for “all our nominees”.
I guess it might play out like the 1976 GOP Convention with Regan and Ford all over again. As George Stephanopolous notes over at ABCNews.com:
Sore losers cripple Presidential nominees. Think of what Ronald Reagan did to Gerald Ford in 1976. After Ford crushed Reagan’s late challenge and refused to offer him the VP slot, he had to beg Reagan to speak at the convention. The 798 words he got were no help. Barely a mention of Ford, not a word of praise. While Reagan’s ringing defense of the GOP platform laid the groundwork for his 1980 campaign, it did nothing for Ford — who barely lost to Jimmy Carter come November.
Here is part of what Peter Nicholas wrote:
She never spoke his name.
In a seven-minute speech to women supporters, Hillary Rodham Clintonurged 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 the Democratic primary. During the event, loudspeakers blared theme songs from her unsuccessful primary bid, including Tom Petty’s “American Girl.”
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 about and I will be making a very strong case tonight that we stand behind our nominees in order to keep pushing progress forward.’’
Clinton also made reference to a sore point during the primary: gender bias. Commending the hosts of the event, an organization called WomenCount, she said, “I urge all of you to support women running at all levels of government, but also on behalf of other concerns that were raised during the course of the campaign. WomenCount will continue to stand up against the pervasive bias we saw in the media.’’
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