Senator CLINTON: All votes cast by the delegates will be counted and that I move Senator Barack Obama of Illinois be selected by this convention, by acclamation, as the nominee of the Democratic...
Hillary Clinton interrupted a roll call vote to ask that he be nominated by acclamation, a carefully choreographed maneuver designed to unite the party after the bitter primary battle between Obama and Clinton.
Mr Barak followed up his indecorous declaration on television with a similarly unseemly steamrolling of his Labour Party's Central Committee next day to confirm him by acclamation as its leader and candidate for prime minister.