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Hillary in Oregon: It's a Contest, Not a Coronation

By Jeralyn

Here's Hillary Clinton in Oregon today:

Hillary Clinton delivered an impassioned defense of her continued candidacy in Eugene, Oregon — telling a young Obama supporter who asked whether she really wanted to help the Democratic party or was merely being “self serving” that the race “is not a coronation. It is a contest.”

“Election are about choices. You’re supposed to present your case and you’re supposed to critique the other case. That’s what you do in an election,” she said. “This country is worth fighting for, and I’m going to fight for it.” The crowd erupted in a standing ovation.

She also addressed hope and change: [More...]

“I wish I could believe that we could get to universal health care, that we could turn the economy around, that we could end the home foreclosure crisis merely by asking people to do it. By bringing them together. By pointing to a higher cause and expecting them to shelve their commercial, ideological, personal and partisan advantages,” she said. “That is not the way the world has ever worked.”

On why she's running:

“I wouldn’t be getting up at 5am and going to bed at 2am if I didn’t believe I would be the better candidate to beat John McCain, stand toe to toe, go at him on national security, go at him on the economy. that’s why I’m here.”

Full post as published by TalkLeft on April 06, 2008 (boomark / email).