Matthews Complains Americans Failed to ‘Salute’ Clinton’s Role in ‘Historic Struggle’ for Women

MATTHEWS: "Let me finish tonight with something that never got said last night, a night history was made. What was missing was a recognition and salute of what Secretary Clinton herself accomplished in this historic struggle. Look at her life and career and you see those achievements, those tests she faced, tests she chose, and tests she passed. She went down to Arkansas, became First Lady down there, learned the politics of that southern state, left to be the First Lady of the United States and for many women, women we look up to, that alone would have made her a figure of history, a figure of great and worldwide admiration. And then she pushed heard for health care reform and then she withstood the terrors and personal anguish of her husband’s troubles of 1998 and then she the raw courage to run for Senate from New York knowing full well there were critics out there waiting to enjoy even relish for her defeat. She ran, she had the courage to run and won. And then she served with great success as Senator from New York, was reelected to a second term, ran for president the first and almost won and accepted it with defeat. She did it with class. She did it in a way that advanced her party, it’s presidential candidate, Barack Obama, and finally her own legacy. Appointed secretary of state, she did the job impressively. She then once again threw herself into the breach, running for the Democratic nomination for president a second time defeating a strong challenge from Senator Bernie Sanders. So let’s not forget any of this. From the time she was a senior at Wellesley, Hillary Rodham — now Hillary Clinton has been a leader with guts, with energy and purpose and incredible resilience and she didn’t get to where she is right now by any other way."