Politics | 06/03/2008 2:51 pm

Women on the Web Forum: Hillary Announcement Watch at wowOwow

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Here’s your chance to weigh in on tonight’s historic speech and be heard across the globe.

Tonight is the big night for Sen. Clinton, and we’re watching FOXNews.com as news of her announcement breaks (click here to follow for the latest as the story breaks).

Is this the end or just the beginning? Will the New York senator declare she’s soldiering on to the convention, or will she throw in the towel, putting an end to the race that never ends? Tonight we’ll find out what’s next for the woman who has come farther than any other in her bid to become president.

During and after her speech, join your wowOwow community right here to discuss and vent, celebrate or commiserate — and add your voice to what the women on the web are saying.

Hillary Watch. Tonight at wowowow.com. Stay tuned — and weigh in.

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immoddesta, now that I am a new Republican, am I required to purchase stock in Halliburton? I don’t know the rules and what will be expected of me.

By Buh- Bye on 06/03/2008 10:41 pm

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alias, allow yourself to bask in the near victory of hillary clinton. AFTER you get over it, help us to get the republicans out of the white house in november.

By mary lou s on 06/03/2008 9:33 pm

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I don’t want Obama, I don’t trust Obama, I think he is more of the same, his campaign stunk to high heavens like a Karl Rove dirty tricks playbook, he is where he is purely out of viral marketing and the true candidate, the one who won the true Democratic vote was cheated out of her nomination exactly like Gore was. Nope. NO OBAMA. Sorry. Had the DNC not pulled that fast one with Florida and Michigan. Had Obama not opposed a revote in those states (HE OPPOSED IT FOLKS!) had Obama not named the Clintons and Ferraro as racists, had Obama spent another 8 yrs gathering some experience instead of just uttering a bunch of empty buzz words, I am sure I would have come to a different conclusion. I will not get over it. I will not vote for him and as I talk to others I am learning these feelings are rampant with Hillary supporters who believe that he is a lightweight.

By Buh- Bye on 06/03/2008 10:35 pm

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Smart Black people are often called arrogant. Have you called George Bush - arrogant. What lies has Obama told? Are you counting Hilary’s years as a Presidential spouse as experience? Come on - be real. You have a right not to like Obama but your reasons don’t stand up.

By Candelaria Silva on 06/03/2008 10:41 pm

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Candelaria, PBS or was it A&E, had a quite excellent biography on HRC years ago. I knew I loved the woman once I found out how she has bucked the establishment since her student years. In college she rose to the top of her class and was introducing an esteemed guest at an event - some political figure (sorry I don’t remember the details - names etc. Someone help me out here) and HRC was instructed to behave herself and not upset the apple cart by putting the guy on the spot over some controversy that was raging at the time, yadda yadda… and she got on stage and just flew in the face of those instructions and blasted the guy on the issue she wasn’t supposed to broach. I knew right then and there that she was my kinda gal. Someone who doesn’t just cross her knees and behave like the men tell you to. She couldn’t be told to shut up and sit down and take a back seat, not even then. Those kinds of stories and her years working for civil rights, her political service, her famous fight for health care, (they told her to shut up and sit down then as well), all these things over the years have contributed to a life of service. Not to mention 8 years in the White House on the front lines - she was the first ever First Lady to have an office in the west wing. She wasn’t a typical First Lady decorating rooms and reading stories to kiddies groups. She’s a player. She’s hands on. You diminish her achievements and service due to a lack of knowledge of her life’s work.

By Buh- Bye on 06/03/2008 10:54 pm

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My Alias, with all respect to your feelings about HRC….please remember a lot of us were HUGE supporters. It would have been nice in the most important vote in the Senate if she got it right. She did not. And if she hadn’t institutionalized Monsanto into our government. You are talking about values differences, not the ability to see what she is. Do you understand that half the party is not going to vote for anyone that supported this evil phony stratospherically costly war? Do you understand that she has blood on her hands and that there are tens of millions of us that have no intention of having it on ours? That isn’t negotiable. That is a foundational value. She voted against the Constitution, humanity, international law. She was no Profile in Courage with her chance to prove she had an unshakeable moral center. She didn’t. She has proven in personal ambition she is unswerving.

By To the beach ~~~ on 06/03/2008 11:59 pm

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It was Senator Edward Brooke, recently revealed to be the man Barbara Walters had a secret affair with. My dim recollection of the Time magazine coverage of Hillary’s speech was that she made some remark about how the Senator had been sufficiently action oriented, that empathy was not enough. See http://sweetness-light.com/archive/hillarys-first-speech-attacked-a-libe… That was the first I heard of Hillary Rodham. I had mixed feelings at the time, because Brooke was one of the good guys, and the only black in the Senate.

By Elizabeth Bennett on 06/04/2008 12:08 am

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Dear Alias, I for one embrace Hillary as a formidable democratic power. I am truly hopeful that she will employ all of her years of experience and strength as a leader in the American heirarchy to further the causes of this party and the people she serves. Not just Hillary supporters. I fervently believe that Hillary will be absolutely insurmountable as a power in the senate for another 24years if she desires. That said; it is not a denunciation of her history or her effort. Barack simply inspires a real vision of the hopes I feel for the world at large. All the world is clammmoringabout the possibilities of a new voice for America. You cannot possibly think that Hillary is some shrinking violet that President Obama will simply disregard. She lost the nomination. She regains respect galore if she takes a bow and comes out swinging against the enemy within (read republican goons)! Hillary miscalculated the new world order. Youthful enthusiasm! Clinton fatigue beat her as much as mis statements, and/or your alleged malfeisence by her opponent. Regarding your desire to invest in Haliburton? put your money where your mouth is. I would recommend MERCY CORPS INTERNATIONAL myself, but that’s just ‘cause they make me proud to call myself liberal.

By immoddesta godessa on 06/04/2008 12:49 am

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Chuck Todd - 12:33am ET - Barack Obama WINS THE POPULAR VOTE BY ABOUT 4,000 VOTES BY ANY METRIC HRC PUTS FORWARD. Case closed.

By Renata on 06/03/2008 11:34 pm

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Candelaria - I take my cues from Barack. He did not campaign much in Appalachia. He respects their cultural norms do not accept him because of the color of his skin — and they were kind enough to honestly confirm this via exit polls. When someone makes misstatements about Barack to justify their decision, I just keep correcting the misinformation and move on. I understand the cultural default of some of our fellow Americans is defined by and relies upon a particular narrative. They will NOT change and Barack Obama’s winning the Nomination is a fearsome prospect for them. Fortunately, for America at-large and the world, Barack’s confidence in the American people has been vindicated. John McCain says the pundits and Party Elders selected Barack. However, the TRUTH is he a) now has enough delegates from voters to win — and, b) now has won the POPULAR VOTE — HRC touted as hers in her speech tonight — according to Chuck Todd at Midnight ET. I just keep posting the TRUTH — and leave LIES to the Bush/Cheney/Clinton/McCain dynasties. What else do they have???

By Renata on 06/03/2008 11:44 pm

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Renata — You’re indomitable. Indefatigable. And, it seems, I can’t help but cheer for you. Happiness and peace and …. onward!!

By rocky rocky on 06/04/2008 10:38 pm

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” Arrogant” would likely be a euphemism for what George Bush has been called…

By T S on 06/04/2008 9:23 am

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Fortune Magazine just named Harvard as by far the university that produces millionaires/billionaires. (Stanford a distant second.) Obama was the head of the Law Review at Harvard—-that is a huge deal. And voted by his law class as the one most likely to become president of the US. He was RIGHT on the biggest issue of our time and came from obscurity to run an amazing campaign funded mostly by under $200 donations and he has a LOT of $$ still in the bank, and the backing of MOST his fellow senators. Logic please. HRC is over $30 M in debt. She did not run a savvy campaign. And please don’t say you think the Clintons aren’t down and dirty street fighters with the best of them. I used to be an ardent supporter and one of the things have really loathed is the victim role she has tried to use and let her supporters revel in. The US cannot afford to keep doing the same thing. Have faith. You’re naturally disappointed now (we all know that feeling well, Gore 2000, Kerry 2004) none of us know what’s going to happen. Obama knows he she has to have an important role, they both will work to bring the party together. We’ve all lived through a nightmare the last 7 years. There is reason for genuine hope. All the power players in the party and Congress know that Hillary has earned a huge role and that must happen. I think you very much underestimate the power of leader that Obama has demonstrated besides being right on Iraq, and running an amazing insurgency campaign, he has gotten more people interested, involved, registered…and has the entire world feeling some hope. We need a whole new way of seeing and being and he and the younger generation are leading the way. I do trust them. He isn’t where he is purely out of viral marketing, he is where he is for all the reasons I mentioned and Hillary’s Feb 2003 Iraq war vote. Half the party is still furious about that betrayal of humanity, international law, and our Constitution.

By To the beach ~~~ on 06/03/2008 11:51 pm