Hillary's speech.................

[sidwill]

ugh.......painful I'm hoping for someone off stage to use one of those long hooked poles to pull her off the stage.

[bidenista]

1. pretty good

She congratulated BO.

[jillan]

6. msnbc cut her off.

Even tho I'm leaning towards Obama, I really do like her and would have liked to hear what she had to say.

They are giving Edwards more time than her.

[beachmom]

15. I just read on Kos that she is giving her standard 45 minute stump speech.

That is why they cut her off -- it wasn't designed to be a 10 minute speech like the others for TV screens.

[emilyg]

2. Link please.

[loveangelc]

3. she is just NOT a good speech maker...

[bidenista]

10. she is a good speaker

I like the no-nonsense approach. Not so keen on soaring rhetoric. May be just me!

[Nailzberg]

4. CNN cut away!!!

:boring:

[sidwill]

9. She was channeling Shecky Green

Promising not to sing and thanking the band.

just painful

[Kahuna]

14. Snarf! Can you hear me in the back?

:rofl:

[Nailzberg]

17. *thump-thump-thump* Is this thing on?

:rofl:

[Sulawesi]

5. It is her stump speech, not a concession, so CNN cut it off...

[Konza]

11. It that's her stump speech that explains a lot. n/t

[jefferson_dem]

7. She offered a sentence fragment's worth of congratulations to Obama.

Ergo.

[journalist3072]

12. And he offered her zero congrulations after her Nevada win. Only Edwards congratulated her.

Yet...she congrulated Obama on his win tonight.

Go figure.

[stillcool]

16. maybe this has something to do with that?

UPDATE 7:12 p.m.: AP and NBC have now changed their delegate counts to 13 for Obama and 12 for Clinton.

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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) won today's raw vote in Nevada but senior aides to Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) believe they have narrowly won the fight for delegates in the Silver State.

In a just completed conference call with Obama campaign manager David Plouffe and director of delegate selection Jeff Berman argued that the Illinois Senator will leave Nevada today with 13 pledged delegates to 12 for Clinton thanks the weighting of northern and rural areas in the state.

An Associated Press official on the call suggested that Obama's campaign may well be right and the organization was looking seriously at its own math.

While the process of delegate apportionment is extremely complicated, it boils down to this: in the places that Clinton won, there were an even number of delegates that were split between she and Obama. In the places Obama won, there were an odd number of delegates, meaning that he often took two delegates to one for Clinton.

"On one very important measure, we had a slight lead," said Plouffe. "Just as important as the number is why that is: we showed real strength statewide."

Plouffe demurred when asked whether if Obama turned out to have won the delegate count, he should be declared the victor in Nevada.

For her part, Clinton sought to downplay the dispute over delegates.

"This is about delegates but it's also about what people are voting for and who they think the best president would be," Clinton said in Las Vegas. "Find it somewhat strange that there is such a reaction when this was a very effective campaign to reach as many people as possible and we did and I am very proud of that."
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/01/clinton_won_or_did_she.html

[Bonobo]

8. Holy crap. This is a lead balloon.

[Muttocracy]

13. she's on c-span now n/t

[AgadorSparticus]

18. she looked so frazzled and insincere. It WAS a horrible speech.

I could barely stomach it....so unlike her.