With a large smile and the phrase, "I am a proud supporter of Barack Obama," Hillary Rodham Clinton handed this historical political moment and the Democratic convention over to her one-time rival Tuesday night. 

Her remarks brought tears to the eyes of some delegates in Denver, and evoked cheering from others.

"She did it," yelled one Washington delegate after Clinton gave her endorsement to Obama. This delegate, an Obama supporter, told Politico.com he saw tears in Clinton’s eyes but yelled, "Go baby go!"

Clinton got a particularly loud laugh when she recalled her campaign and the "sisterhood of the traveling pantsuits."

Schenectady, NY, Mayor Brian Stratton, a one-time Clinton supporter, made a little Freudian slip in describing the transition.

"The primary race is over and as a nation and party we have to get behind her — I mean get behind him," Stratton said.

Our wOw readers weighed in on Clinton’s speech last night, as the New York senator tried to convince her supporters to throw their votes to Obama.

Even the faithful Clinton supporter Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is now sporting a button reading: "Hillary Supporter for Obama."

"It’s about the issues … it’s not about her," Wasserman Schultz said during a Denver breakfast with Obama backer Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, who, according to U.S. News and World Report, said many Hillary supporters she’s been in contact with have started to make the switch.

The New York Times reports that Clinton aides and advisers say the former First Lady’s remarks and actions were deliberate, as to keep the door open to a future bid for the presidency in 2012, if Obama doesn’t win. At an earlier event with 3,000 women, Clinton also described her passion about her own campaign.

Clinton’s advisers said she wanted her speech Tuesday night to reflect the leverage that she retains in the Democratic Party and that she – much more so than Obama – has enough influence to move her supporters to his side.

Although many Clinton supporters and delegates have transitioned their support to Obama, The Washington Post reports that many others are still divided on how they should proceed. "Even if she can move on easily, that’s not as easy for everybody else," said Shirley Love from West Virginia.

The New York Times also reports that a significant number of Clinton’s top fund-raisers are still unwilling to work for Obama – a problem that may be contributing to the Obama campaign’s failure to keep pace with ambitious fund-raising goals it set for the general election.

At the convention this week, some Clinton fundraisers complained about the way they are being treated by the Obama campaign in terms of hotel rooms, credentials and the like. Some skipped the convention altogether, while others are leaving Wednesday, before Obama’s speech when he formally accepts his party’s nomination. Many complain that Obama didn’t do enough to reach out to them after Clinton conceded the primary race.

"I’ve had more contact from the McCain campaign since the nomination than from the Obama campaign," Calvin Fayard, a New Orleans lawyer, major Clinton fund-raiser and longtime Democratic donor, told the Times.