{"id":16,"date":"2008-08-27T00:04:24","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T05:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masonvotes.gmu.edu\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2008-09-05T00:27:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T05:27:38","slug":"warner%e2%80%99s-keynote-speech-overshadowed-as-hillary-attempts-to-unify-the-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/27\/warner%e2%80%99s-keynote-speech-overshadowed-as-hillary-attempts-to-unify-the-democratic-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner\u2019s Keynote Speech Overshadowed As Hillary Attempts to Unify the Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/masonvotes.gmu.edu\/imgs\/mainPics\/mainPic01.jpg\" alt=\"Title Picture\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Former Virginia Governor Mark Warner gave the Keynote speech last night at the Democratic National Convention in Denver but was overshadowed by New York Senator and former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. \u201cNobody remembers that he spoke never mind he was the keynote speaker,\u201d said Dennis Prager, a conservative talk show host in a post-convention <em>Larry King Live <\/em>republican response. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Clinton\u2019s stirring speech has potentially laid to rest any question of her support for presumptive presidential nominee Barack Obama and united many of her supporters with the larger Democratic party. Republican pundits are not convinced, though, that she has given him her unfaltering support. \u201cShe never quite said that Barack Obama was ready to be President&#8230;the issue of leadership is still there\u201d said Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, (R) Texas on <em>Larry King Live<\/em>. But if Clinton was not successful in persuading viewers that she fully backs Obama, she was unequivocally successful at laying to rest any question of who she does not support. \u201cNo way, no how, no McCain!\u201d might be the sound bite of her speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis was a very strong speech\u201d said\u00a0 Kellyanne Conway, Republican strategist, to Larry King. \u201cI think her speech was so good I think some supporters left there scratching their heads wondering why she is part of the team but not part of the ticket.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Democratic National Convention continues tomorrow and culminates with Obama\u2019s Democratic presidential nomination acceptance speech on Thursday which will be televised live at a watch party in the Johnson Center Atrium starting at 8:30 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Virginia Governor Mark Warner gave the Keynote speech last night at the Democratic National Convention in Denver but was overshadowed by New York Senator and former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. \u201cNobody remembers that he spoke never mind he was the keynote speaker,\u201d said Dennis Prager, a conservative talk show host in a post-convention Larry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}