Hillary Clinton campaigns in her hometown -- and Obama's
Sen. Hillary Clinton celebrated a double-homecoming of sorts in Chicago today, visiting the city where she was born and paying homage to the American Federation of Teachers, which endorsed her unsuccessful run for the Democratic presidential nom
ination way back in October of last year.
Was it only 2007?
"I'm here to say thank you for the privilege of working with you in this presidential campaign," she told an enthusiastic crowd of more than 3,000 delegates at the union's convention on Chicago's waterfront Navy Pier.
"It was a remarkable journey, one that I would not have wanted to make without you, and I feel very privileged that you went with me as we crisscrossed America."
But more than just offering her appreciation, Clinton received a standing ovation as she played the role of campaign surrogate for the man who defeated her for the presidential nomination, presumptive nominee Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, more specifically now of the city's South Side.
"I bear such a sense of debt to those who gave me so much," Clinton told the crowd, discussing the teachers she had while growing up in suburban Park Ridge. Our blogging colleague David Pearson has the rest of the story on the New York senator's campaign day in Illinois.
--Andrew Malcolm
Photo credit: Newsday
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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The photo reminds me of the wizard of oz, Hillary Soprano behind the curtain pulling the strings of the female vote.
If Obama keeps dropping in the Newsweek polls, come Denver the crowd will be saying HILLARY SOPRANO.
VJ Machiavelli
http://www.vjmachiavelli.blogspot.com
Posted by: VJ Machiavelli | July 12, 2008 at 10:58 PM
This race gets smellier by the day. You mean Hillary Clinton had infrastructure of support in Chicago and STILL lost Illinois by a 2-1 count? Nonsense.
That Illinois win is supposed to be as important as 11 of Hillary's wins, how nonsensical is that?
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Posted by: Alessandro Machi | July 13, 2008 at 10:09 AM
She is more presidential than the fraud. When they were on stage together, he looked so insecure and insignificant. The people were there to see her, not him. They loved her, not him.
He's a fraud. A big fraud. Now he scrubbed his website of his criticism on the Iraq surge. He now wants to claim credit that Iraq surge worked and he was for it since day 1. There can be no policy without principle. And BO is a man of no principle.
Posted by: JoeySky | July 15, 2008 at 09:14 AM
Obama and the DNC have done everything to steal the nomination. Now that people are seeing the real Obama,Hillary can still be nominated. Superdelegates have started moving to her!
Posted by: William Sprus | July 15, 2008 at 10:23 AM
We want HILLARY!!!! OBAMA is not the nominee of the people!
Posted by: mjo | July 15, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Hillary! Hillary! Hillary!
Posted by: Hillicrat | July 15, 2008 at 04:57 PM