Video excerpt from Hillary Clinton at FAU today

Yes, I know the quality sucks. Sorry about that. But here's a video anyway. You might try to muddle through it, as it's only 3½ minutes long.

Here is a transcript of what Sen. Clinton said in this video as well as I could make it out and remember. I think it's good enough to get the gist of what she said in this excerpt. And, again, the money shot is the last sentence ...

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... then Barack Obama is your candidate. If you care about ending the Bush Administration's “war on science,” which has substituted ideology for evidence, then Barack Obama is your candidate. And if you care about raising the minimum wage, improving the quality of our schools, rebuilding the economy, opening the doors to college for more young people, ending the war in Iraq, and restoring [unintelligible] around the world.

And certainly, if you care about protecting a woman's right to choose and preventing the Supreme Court from becoming even more of a too old, right-wing ideology, then Barack Obama is your candidate and must be our president!

We cannot afford four more years of the same. I am proud to be a senator from New York. I work hard for all New Yorkers ... even for those of you who left New York for what will be just a temporary sojourn [from] the mother ship. But I need a president who will work with me, who will be there for the people I care about, that I love and fight for every single day.

Those of you who were with me in my campaign – we were fighting for the mother with a young daughter, juggling work and school, who told me, “I'm doing it all to better myself for her. I'd like to have just a little bit of help.” We were fighting for the woman who grabbed my hand and said, “What are you going to do to help me with health care? I hold three jobs – I cannot afford health care, and I have a prior condition, and I go without.” We were fighting for the young man in a Marine Corps T-shirt who waited months for medical care from the ... VA, who said, “I want you to take care of my buddies over there, while they're still there, and bring 'em home with honor. And then, please, help take care of me, because I'm not getting the medical assistance that I need. We were fighting for everyone who lost their jobs and lost their health care, who were despairing about the budgets that they saw shrinking in their family checkbooks, who felt invisible to their president. And that's who we are fighting for today.

Anyone who supported me has much more in common with Senator Obama than with Senator McCain.

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Are you listening, PUMAs?