Hillary Slams McCain For Dividing Dems

From an admiring New York Daily News:

Hillary Clinton slams John McCain ads that ‘divide’ Democrats

BY MICHAEL SAUL

Monday, August 25th 2008

DENVER - Hillary Clinton slammed John McCain on Monday for using her in attack ads against Barack Obama and declared that the Republicans’ divide-and-conquer tactics won’t fly.

“I understand that the McCain campaign is running ads trying to divide us, and let me state what I think about their tactics and these ads: I’m Hillary Clinton and I do not approve that message,” said Clinton, prompting cheers at a breakfast for the New York delegation.

“We are, after all, Democrats, so it may take a while,” said Clinton. “We’re not the fall-in-line party. We’re diverse, many voices. But make no mistake - we are united.”

Clinton spoke amid grumbling from inside the Obama camp that she is not fully aboard and that there was too much whining from her side over the vice presidential selection process.

Even now, aides to the former rivals are still dickering over the choreography of her last hurrahs at the convention. She is the headline speaker Tuesday night.

Questions about her intentions arose again when Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, who was one of her strong supporters, told USA Today “she wants to run again” - an opportunity that would open sooner if Obama lost to McCain.

“I’ve never said that,” Clinton said Monday. She did not spell out whether or not she holds hopes of a second presidential bid.

As supporters chanted her name and held aloft signs that read “Hillary Made History,” Clinton urged her backers to commit themselves fully to Obama’s presidential campaign.

“I ask each and every one of you to work as hard for Barack and Joe Biden as you worked for me,” said Clinton, who wore a canary yellow pantsuit.

Clinton confirmed she will formally release each of the delegates pledged to her when she meets with them Wednesday.

She said she will tell her delegates that she will cast her own vote for Obama, and “however they decide to vote, we will all be united behind Sen. Obama” when he becomes the nominee.

The Obama campaign and convention officials have not released details about Wednesday’s roll call vote.

But a source confirmed that there are discussions underway to suspend the vote early - after both Clinton and Obama accrue some votes - and then nominate Obama by acclamation…

Aren’t these McCain ads reaching across the aisle? Aren’t they an attempt to unify us? Isn’t that the dream of our media?

Guess it is only a good thing when the Anointed One does it.

Still, when you upset her heinousness this much you must be doing something right.

But don’t the obviously contrived machinations of the Democrat Convention smack of the doings of the Congress of People’s Deputies in the Soviet Union or the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic Of China?

“We are, after all, Democrats, so it may take a while,” said Clinton. “We’re not the fall-in-line party. We’re diverse, many voices. But make no mistake - we are united.”

Anything you say, comrade.

(Thanks to BillK for the heads up.)