Michelle Bernard: "Most amazing evening of my life."

August 28, 2008
Nomination Night

BERNARD: Most amazing evening of my entire life. I kept looking at Barack Obama and I kept thinking that one day that can be my son or my daughter. So being black is enough for her daughter? Does she really think that her daughter can be POTUS? There is no one more supremely qualified than Sen Clinton who has 30 years in public politics. Her son, yes. Her, daughter?

"We're looking at a sea of beautiful black, white, Asian faces." [What happened to brown?] "It tells me that the era of identity politics is over. I'll be very happy on election night if we get to a point where we don't have to talk about how women are voting, how African Americans are voting, how people in Appalachia are voting. Iowas did it first. Iowa demonstrated that in this country white people will vote for a black MAN. IT IS THE GREATEST MOMENT IN OUR NATION'S HISTORY."

Sorry hon. July 4, 1776 is the greatest moment in this nation's history. And shortly after this when barry's numbers dropped in the polls you started bringing up the race issue and how WHITE AMERICA won't vote for a black man. It's such a joke.

MATTHEWS: Hillary Clinton came close to winning this nomination. She had 18M votes...cracks in the glass ceiling. I just kept hearing some of those cracks tonight. Being wielded by wielded at Barack Obama. ERA Equal opportunity equal pay. Fighting for the right to vote back back when when suffrage came."

Black man's suffrage happened in 1870. Women's suffrage didn't come - it was fought and marched for just like civil rights asshole. Women were beaten, locked in their homes and in jail. It didn't just come in the mail and took place 50 years after black men had the right to vote.

MATTHEWS: Talk about that. I thought he really delivered. I said the other night that Hillary Clinton had passed him the baton in a kind of a relay race this time around. It seems like he was at least trying to deliver on that and offer that he is a partner of Hillary Clinton in delivering this nomination...in delivering this party's cause to the country.

UPDATE: He hasn't done a damn thing except ask for money from her supporters, dissed SHRC, allowed his surrogates to dis her and still hasn't talked to the black community about HC & BC. Some of HRC supporters weren't supporting him but with the economy now they have no other choice. Matthews has continued his misogyny. Bernard has continued to whine about the Clitnon's - saying Bills Global whatever initiative. She didn't even know that it his BC's usual press junket and she complained that bo wasn't invited and mccain was. well she should check the invites and who refused to show up and preferred to be on a giant screen to the adoring masses. Curiously that was the first and only time I've heard bo refer to BC as PRESIDENT Clinton.

BERNARD: Absolutely. He gave her the praise she absolutely deserved. Hillary Clinton will go down in the history books as one of the greatest female politicians - one of the greatest politicians of all time. She almost did it. I AGREE WITH YOU THAT FUNDAMENTALLY THINGS MIGHT HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT IF HILLARY CLINTON HAD VOTED AGAINST THE IRAQ WAR. That's what the issue turned on for Democrats and barack Obama ran a superior campaign - nothing like we've ever seen like it.

Yes who could use the race card before? Who could rely on white guilt? Black silence? Hillary hate? Meida corruption? Marketing merchandise to foreigners? Like the $33K a couple of Palestinian brothers bought in t-shirts. BO - thought GA was Georgia not GAZA.

BERNARD: He was very smart talking about the world he wants for his daughters. He looked at the audience and said I wasn't the same opportunities for my daughters as your sons have.

Somehow I don't think his daughters are going to have a problem with that. He already said he hopes they get basketball scholarships and has said that he doesn't think they shouldn't be given advantages from affirmative action. And Mrs barry already benefited from SHRC'S generation as did you. No matter your color, intelligence, country or anything else - you would have not gotten as far as you have without them paving the way and you never once admit it.

BERNARD: For any woman like myself who has a son and a daughter. I always say I love my children equally and i want them both to have the same opportunity. So barack Obama took the post-feminist, third wave feminist baton from HC and he ran with it. He is a man who is saying "I want equal opportunities for all Americans: men, women, white, black, Hispanic, whatever you are." America is the greatest country in the world!

BERNARD: Barack Obama has demonstrated to the entire world that in our country NOW, black people can compete with white people on their own terms and it also means that WE CAN LOSE ON THE SAME TERMS. America is a fundamentally different country today. It will be even more different if he wins this election, but regardless of the outcome of this election, our country will never be the same again.

Ok lets see if you have the same words if he loses or if it will because WHITE PEOPLE won't vote for him? I've already heard her say it and talk about those walmart mom demographics so your words are worth what? And why is it no one mentions his mother until they need to appeal to WHITE FOLKS? How hard was it for barry to succeed? How many white folks in Appalachia go to Harvard? How hard is it for them? Oh so tired of this. But her words are forever immortalized.