Video of Obama and Clinton Speeches

Thanks to Talking Points Memo, here are video clips of the speeches by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

I watched both speeches in their entirety last night, as well as parts of John McCain's prebuttal. Obama's speech was undeniably a tour-de-force -- inspiring and presidential. Clinton's speech was frankly perplexing. Although she is clearly attempting to marshal her political capital to some end, she seemed determined to torpedo any chance of sharing the ticket with the presumptive nominee. It really sounded like the speech of a winner, or at least one determined not to concede anything to the real winner. I could not believe that she congratulated Obama only for running a great campaign and "what he has accomplished," without acknowledging his clinching the winning margin of delegates, and that she continued to portray herself as the stronger candidate. However, both Democrats displayed so much more vitality and vision than McCain it made his earlier speech seem pathetically stilted and crabbed in comparison.