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Clinton Motions to Suspend Rules, Nominates Obama
27-Aug-2008
Written by: Justin Zaremba
Senator Barack Obama was officially nominated Democratic presidential nominee after Sen. Hillary Clinton made a motion toward party unity by suspending the rules of the convention and nominating Senator Barack Obama.
Sen. Barack Obama has officially been selected as the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, making him the first African-American presidential nominee from the party, CNN reports.
On Wednesday, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton made the motion to suspend the rules of the convention and nominate Senator Barack Obama by acclamation. Prior to the motion, Clinton, who was a substantial candidate in the primary election, released her remaining convention delegates in order to foster party unity.
During the convention, Clinton told delegates who claimed she had won the primaries, "I am not telling you what to do. You've come here from so many different places having made this journey and feeling in your heart what is right for you to do."
Despite winning 18 million votes in primary-season contests, Hillary Clinton failed to earn her party's nomination.
After campaigning in Montana, Obama planned a mid-afternoon arrival in the convention city of Denver.
In addition, former President Clinton will endorse the candidate who forced his wife out of the race and make the case that Obama is ready to confront any domestic, international or national security challenge, an aide said.
Sources suggest that Bill Clinton will say, in a roughly eight-minute speech, that only a Democrat in the White House can “restore America's standing to what it was eight years ago.”
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