Clinton Tells Cheering Crowd: "I Found My Own Voice"

AP:

Hillary Rodham Clinton proved Tuesday that more than one Clinton can be "the Comeback Kid." "Over the last week, I listened to you, and in the process I found my own voice," Clinton said at a victory celebration after her win over Barack Obama. "Now, together, let's give America the kind of comeback that New Hampshire has just given me."

Clinton, whose husband used a second-place finish in New Hampshire in 1992 to propel himself to the White House, had trailed Obama in recent polling. In the last days, though, she overhauled her campaign operation here and took a new tone to the trail. Aides, meanwhile, executed the long-laid ground game that even rivals acknowledged was masterful.

The New York senator and former first lady hugged both former President Clinton and their daughter, Chelsea, before taking the podium and saying, "thank you, thank you so much" repeatedly.

"I come tonight with a very, very full heart and I want especially to thank New Hampshire," she said. "For all the ups and down of this campaign, you helped remind everyone that politics isn't a game. ... We came back tonight because you spoke loudly and clearly."

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Comments

[myownwings]

11:24 AM on 01/09/2008

Found her own voice? Gee, and here I thought she was going to take seriously the role she tried to give herself - to be OUR voices for a change! Oh well. WE will have to make sure it is our voice that is heard however we see it with serious study and willingness to go the distance with those we really believe in. It will be a cold day before I could believe this woman has her own voice about anything when her husband is obviously the one running. Hillary is only the play with the play.

[Evolin]

11:21 AM on 01/09/2008

A wonderful victory! This lady who has been maligned for so LONG, decided to open up and reveal her vulnerabilities and heart despite the continuous attacks here and by the media.
You who have tried to put her down, instead allowed many to see how unfair you have been.
It was a wonderful victory for the country. Because of the inaccurate polling it was such a happy surprise.
I hope those here, who are not here just to ridicule and put her down, ( put her in her place) will take a fresh look at her strength, decency and potential for greatness.
I understand blacks wanting their place in the sun, but let us not allow things to happen like the black males getting the vote before women did.....a terrible miscarriage of justice.
Let women live and breathe free at last. Stop the hate of women's success and advancement. They have so much to give to us and our country....as do the blacks.

[Zeje]

11:11 AM on 01/09/2008

Hillary's Response to the Heckler
"I can iron two dozen shirts
before you can count to nine.
Mandate health care, bring the troops home, and powder my face at the same time!
I can get all dressed up, campaign till 4 a.m. and then
lay down at 5, jump up at 6
and start all over again!
Cause I'm a woman! Double-u-o-m-a-n!
I'll say it again!
I can stretch a dollar bill from here
to kingdom come,
safeguard social security, medicare
and still end up with some.
Millions of Americans say there ain't nothin' I can't do,
I can turn this country around
and end the Iraq war too.
Cause I'm a woman! Double-u-o-m-a-n!
I'll say it again!
I'm a woman! Double-u-o-m-a-n!

(Thanks, Maria Muldaur)

[bogtrotters]

11:04 AM on 01/09/2008

I just hope "finding her voice" means stepped-up attacks on the Bush-Cheney junta. I'd rather see her detailing how we've been betrayed the last seven years than swiftboating Obama.

[JeffDV50]

10:29 AM on 01/09/2008

She goes on Today show this morning and does the same "ya know, I care about this country" speech with Ann Curry, the same way they rehearsed it the first time.
Would love to know which island in the Caribbean the Clinton campaign sent their plant from the ladies meeting.

Slick Willie, Slick Hilly - it's all the same.
And I LOVED the sweater Wolfson was wearing last night - bonding with the homies. POS.

[HowietheScreamer]

10:28 AM on 01/09/2008

I heard that in her speech last night... WTF... she's supposed to be the "Experience" candidate and NOW she finds "her voice"???? So just what "voice" was she using before? What corporate lobbiest voice was she borrowing?

Just another Clintonian manipulation.

[tkk]

10:26 AM on 01/09/2008

I'm sick of hearing about the tears. What, does she have to pretend she's a man to get elected? You people are living in the antiquated world of Gloria Steinham.

[Lisette]

10:23 AM on 01/09/2008

All those pollsters were not wong...there is something fishy here.

[Jacee]

10:10 AM on 01/09/2008

She had no experience with her own voice? She going to be that weak as a president? She going to loose it again? Some one going to take it away? Is she going to choose to be controlled by some one else again? Nonsense.

[Zugernaut]

10:08 AM on 01/09/2008

I found MY voice.

It's all about her.

Obama says "you" and "we."

[Beachrunner]

10:04 AM on 01/09/2008

"I found my voice"????? How lame is that?

Good grief, people actually voted for this woman???

[Independent voter]

10:04 AM on 01/09/2008

Congratulations to the Clintons for proving that

*** NEGATIVE ATTACK ADS WORK ***

Congratulations to the people of NH

*** FOR BEING STUPID ENOUGH TO FALL FOR IT ***


What a bunch of freakin' hicks.

[Talcott]

09:59 AM on 01/09/2008

Comedy Gold

Nice Story, tell it to Reader's Digest.

Please Dems

ABC

[bija]

09:58 AM on 01/09/2008

I'd be a lot happier for Hillary if I trusted the Diebold voting machines (same ones that were hacked on the HBO documentary--HACKING DEMOCRACY. It doesn't look right when the polls say one thing and the vote comes out totally different. I want the next Democratic candidate to be someone who will fight if there are questions about the voting. Not someone who concedes right away.

[drricklippin]

09:55 AM on 01/09/2008

Of course issues are important.

But do not underestimate the change in American consciousness if and when we elect our first female president. Also the consciousness of the world in their perception of the US will change.

While biology is certainly not destiny it does indeed count. Ignore it at your peril.

The global rise of the FEMININE in both men and women is a huge unstoppable megatrend which serves to counter the pathology in today's world.

GO HILLARY!

Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampton, Pa
http://medicalcrises.blogspot.com