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Whoopi: Hillary's speech pissed me off! (video)

Wed Jun 04, 2008 at 04:32:51 PM PDT

Whoopi Goldberg, when discussion the issue at The View, promptly said that Hillary Clinton's speech last night – as Obama clinched the Democratic nomination for President of the United States – "Pissed me off!"

Goldberg referred to the unwillingness of Clinton to acknowledge her defeat, and that she

A short transcript from about 2:45 into the discussion (video below):

– I didn't like her speech because with all the greatness that this woman has in her, that she couldn't say "You know what – we have run an insanely brilliant campaign, and since he's got what he needs to become the nominee, we as a party have to get ourselves together" – that is what I needed from her.
– And whether she said "Everybody go to him" or not last night wasn't the issue, but for me I just felt that it was like, "Well you know I'm not sure what I'm gonna do, and I want you all to e-mail me and tell me what you think." Because it was like, "Well I'm not sure what I'm gonna do because maybe we'll go to McCain! I don't know!"
– I didn't like it.
– I did not like  the speech because I felt for the first time that [for Hillary] it wasn't about the country – that it was about her – and it pissed me off!

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