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Didn't stay up last night, but listened to Hillary first thing thie morning. Amazing. As angry as I have been with her for months, now, I actually wept when she talked about the suffragettes and Harriet Tubman... Totally amazing. Also: As I drove home from A2 I heard Hillary ask to suspend the roll call vote and endorse Obama by acclaim. Chills and more tears.
posted by Lizzy at 9:36 PM
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Hi,
I, too, was thrilled that Senator Clinton honored the suffragettes, including Harriet Tubman, who was as ardently involved in the suffrage struggle as she was in the Underground Railroad.
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I haven't heard her speech, not having either TV or radio in my lonely bedroom (to which I've been confined, lately, by unrelenting pain).
I'll scour YouTube for a clip, I'm sure they're up already.
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