Hillary Clinton speaks to huge North Dakota crowd, in Oregon vows not to quit.

[Maddy McCall]

GRAND FORKS — Sen. Hillary Clinton invoked the aid her husband and his FEMA director offered to flood-stricken Grand Forks, to the delight of a roaring late night crowd in the Alerus Center.

“It’s especially moving to me to know how this community has come back from the devastating floods of 1997,” she said, adding that it was too bad New Orleans didn’t have the same competent partners in recovery, she said, criticizing President Bush and his FEMA director.

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The Bush presidency, she said, hasn’t tried to help with the country’s problems, instead, “used fear to divide us and pessimism to discourage us.”

“Since when did America become the can’t do nation? Let’s start acting like Americans again,” she said, as some in the crowd chanted, ‘Hillary, Hillary!’”

She called it “a great honor for me to be here with all of you and it is exciting to be a North Dakota Democrat right now,” as the audience cheered.

MORE: http://www.jamestownsun.com/articles/index.cfm?id=64043§ion=news




HILLSBORO — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton launched her Oregon campaign today by vowing to be in the race through the May 20 primary.

“One thing you know about me is that I don’t quit,” the New York senator told a cheering crowd of about 3,000 inside the Liberty High School gymnasium.

Clinton is locked in a tight battle with Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for Oregon’s 65 delegates to the Democratic National Convention. The primary will determine how they divide 52 of the delegates; one is unpledged, and the other 12 are elected officials and party leaders who are not bound by the results of the primary.

“This is the first time in decades in a presidential primary that Oregon matters,” said U.S. Rep. Darlene Hooley of West Linn, one of those superdelegates who is a national co-chairwoman of Clinton’s campaign. “Oregon could be the place where we elect the first woman president.”

Gov. Ted Kulongoski, who also has endorsed Clinton, said “She will never give up, never give up, fighting for working people.”

MORE: http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080405/ELECTION03/80405017/1001


EDIT TO ADD: Want to see how classless some Obama supporters are? They can't even resist derailing a completely positive thread about Clinton, which has NO CRITICISM of Obama. Pathetic.

[Joe the Revelator]

1. I don't get it....why would she address a state thats already voted, to kick off her Oregon campaign

Huh?

[Maddy McCall]

2. Oregon's primary is May 20.

[Joe the Revelator]

3. But did ND already vote?

Maybe I'm thinking of SD.

[Maddy McCall]

6. It's their state convention.

Obama addressed them too.

Read the article.

[Whisp]

7. I don't get it either... this huge ND crowd gathered to see Hillary?

or was there something else going on?

:)

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[rodeodance]

15. You listen to DU hate too much--after all she does have about half the votes. WHY

is it so hard for you to believe that people do like her?

[Zhade]

21. Not really even close to half. Keep dreaming.

NT!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

34. It's not dreaming. It is full blown delusion.

[boston bean]

4. woopsie daisy! lol

[stop the bleeding]

10. yep 65 Delegates according to the link.

:beer:

[bigtree]

5. kicking ass

taking names

[Mags]

9. Go Hillary, We want Hillary. Never give up.

[emilyg]

12. Go Hillary.

[Whisp]

11. She called it “a great honor for me to be here

with all of you and it is exciting to be a North Dakota Democrat right now,” as the audience cheered."

so I guess in the next couple days she'll be screaming SHAME ON YOU, ND, SHAME ON YOU! and waving ND travel brochures in our faces.

I am soooooo honored, so honored, realllllly so honored

[rodeodance]

17. You are not honoring a positive thread with your mocking of DEM. Pres. candidate.

She called it “a great honor for me to be here
Posted by Whisp


with all of you and it is exciting to be a North Dakota Democrat right now,” as the audience cheered."

so I guess in the next couple days she'll be screaming SHAME ON YOU, ND, SHAME ON YOU! and waving ND travel brochures in our faces.

I am soooooo honored, so honored, realllllly so honored

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[rodeodance]

13. “Since when did America become the can’t do nation? Let’s start acting like Americans again,” she sa

[Maddy McCall]

14. Loved that line!

[rodeodance]

16. REC

[rodeodance]

18. Thanks for the post maddy---Hillary is looking good in that photo

[Zhade]

19. Polls already show Obama taking it.

She'd be wise not to lie again. Like, take a day off from making shit up, so she doesn't slip further.

(I mean, I'd say that if I was her campaign manager.)

[AnnieBW]

20. What constitutes a "huge crowd" in North Dakota?

Ten people + a herd of cows?

[Jane Austin]

24. It WAS a huge crowd.

The Dem party's state convention. They were there to see Barack and Hillary.

I'll leave it up to someone who was there to estimate the candidate preferences of the crowd.

[RBInMaine]

22. They should have shouted her off the stage in ND. She doesn't give a damn about them.

[rodeodance]

28. you LIE---the crowd loved her. And stop you smearing on a positive thread.

[gristy]

25. Obama also spoke to that "huge North Dakota crowd"

I can guess who was the bigger draw. http://www.thedickinsonpress.com/articles/index.cfm?id=14826§ion=homepage

Today, she spoke to folks in a http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hygD7Dp-_Im5spyCmFXdiGO_oNpQD8VS0P4O0">high school gym in Hillsboro, OR, where she continued her call to count the votes in MI and FL, where her opponents were not on the ballot and she has in the past stated that they should not count.

[rodeodance]

30. Thank you for your concern

[bobthedrummer]

26. "Know Your DLC: Current DLC Leadership Team and other Democratic Leadership Council links"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5396391

[DesEtoiles]

27. The "huge crowd" in Hillsboro was about 2,000 people

[rodeodance]

29. glad you can read.

[Taxmyth]

31. Go Hillary

the GOP Plants are trying to disrupt this positive posting. It won't work.

[anonymous171]

32. derail.

NOT! Just wanted to kick a positive thread. :kick:

[DerekJ]

33. Nice positive thread. Thank you

[JNelson6563]

35. Positive OP, well done.

It really is too bad that when a positive thread about either candidate gets posted people can't resist the temptation to shit on it.

Julie

[rodeodance]

36. kick