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The pundits have been going crazy.  Foaming at the mouth; salivating at the prospect that Hillary Clinton would do something, anything to substantiate their months long baseless opinions forecasting imminent doom for Barack Obama’s candidacy due to ‘disunity’ between him and Hillary.

And as usual, the pundits were wrong.  Hillary Clinton stood up before her Party and showed them what they had forgotten about her.  She reminded them of who she was and how she had gotten to that podium.  She wasn’t just some schmuck off the street, she was a fighter and she reminded everyone that the fight is not yet over:

I haven’t spent the past 35 years in the trenches advocating for children, campaigning for universal health care, helping parents balance work and family, and fighting for women’s rights at home and around the world . . . to see another Republican in the White House squander the promise of our country and the hopes of our people.

She went right after her supporters.  The ones who everyone has been saying will sit the election out or actually vote for John McCain, a candidate whose position on issues is so far away from Hillary’s and Barack’s it makes one wonder if these  supposed ‘Hillary Rebels’ have even read his policies.

Whether you voted for me, or voted for Barack, the time is now to unite as a single party with a single purpose. We are on the same team, and none of us can sit on the sidelines.

She thanked her restless supporters but reminded them why they supported her in the first place:

I want you to ask yourselves: Were you in this campaign just for me? Or were you in it for that young Marine and others like him? Were you in it for that mom struggling with cancer while raising her kids? Were you in it for that boy and his mom surviving on the minimum wage? Were you in it for all the people in this country who feel invisible?

She went right after McCain’s jugular:

More of a government where the privileged come first and everyone else comes last. John McCain says the economy is fundamentally sound. John McCain doesn’t think that 47 million people without health insurance is a crisis. John McCain wants to privatize Social Security. And in 2008, he still thinks it’s okay when women don’t earn equal pay for equal work.

With an agenda like that, it makes sense that George Bush and John McCain will be together next week in the Twin Cities. Because these days they’re awfully hard to tell apart.

And she reminded everyone that the fight has been hard and will keep going until November:

But remember, before we can keep going, we have to get going by electing Barack Obama president.

We don’t have a moment to lose or a vote to spare. Nothing less than the fate of our nation and the future of our children hang in the balance.

Hillary Clinton reminded Denver and the millions of people watching at home that they have come too far to let it all slip away and another Republican be elected President.  She did what she had to do, what the country and the future needed her to do.