Brit Hume over at Fox Comedy Channel relished in all the things Senator Hillary Clinton left out of her prepared remarks. He said he always loves when Democrats hate on the Bush years, suggesting it sounds as if we were living in Belarus (a nation where the government, coincidentally, spies on its citizens, too).

My immediate and gut reaction from Hillary’s speech are more reflective of her long presidential run and the women’s rights movement than any (real or not) harmony with Obama.

—Her anti-McCain zingers were the best yet—what Vince Vaughn would call “so money!” She parlays McCain’s out-of-touchness in a simple and jarring way Obama has not. She is and would have been the Democrats best VEEP attack dog. 

—Not really buying the Clinton-as-historic-icon-in-women’s-rights-movement narrative. Her campaign belongs in the annals of women’s rights for being the first female candidacy to be within arm’s reach of winning the White House. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is a hero. Hillary Clinton is a fighter.

—Wondering why she can’t say the three words: “ready to lead.” Such a statement would concisely counter her previous criticisms as well as her husband’s. Saying, “the future hangs in the balance” doesn’t meet the Steve Schmidt-patented “is Obama ready to lead” onslaught.

-Had its inspiring moments. She was beautiful when she spoke of uplifting and overcoming to follow your dreams and achieve your goals. She was natural and delivered it with poignancy - a welcome departure from her more stale and uptight speeches she was giving in Iowa in 2007. Between her concession speech in D.C. where she suspended her campaign and this tonight, she’s proven Obama isn’t the only show in town who can inspire. 

—If she is serious about rallying behind Obama, she would either have her “Hillraisers” and big donors either get on board the Obama express or stop giving interviews. Having her biggest supporters complain they didn’t get the titles they got in a non-existent no-drama Obama system, or didn’t get a room in the Denver Ritz Carlton is embarrassing. It harks back to her inability to reconcile her advisers Mark Penn and Harold Ickes during the primary campaign. It’s great the delegates speaking on the networks are ready to vote Obama. If the Clintons are really behind Obama full tilt, they’ll have to put muzzles on their mega-donors.

-Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer should deliver all speechs from now on.