If Clinton wins the election, it will be even bigger.
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And when it came time for her moment, Emmett smiled broadly, waved to the convention crowd and declared that Arizona was casting “51 votes for the next president of the United States of America, Hillary Rodham Clinton”.
“I hope on my tombstone, it will say: ‘Roz Wyman was a mother and she helped get Hillary Clinton elected in 2016, ‘ ” said Roz Wyman, 85, a California delegate.
Cass, like many Bernie supporters, found herself so sickened by what she feels was a hijacking of the election by Clinton that the actual outcome-which is to say, the president who eventually does take office, the one responsible for negotiating with foreign leaders, waging nuclear war, reshaping the Supreme Court-is less important than the moral road they took to get there. “We can not support Hillary”.
“I do think Trump wouldn’t be as scary as Hillary, because he’s all talk”, she said. “And I’m proud to be that girl”.
The speech concluded the big speeches of the night – but the newly minted nominee followed up with a surprise satellite video that showed a slideshow of U.S. Presidents leading to a graphic of glass shattering and then Clinton.
The truth is, Sanders was running against Bill Clinton’s Democratic Leadership Council politics more than anything else: partial Glass-Steagall repeal, NAFTA and other free trade agreements, capital gains tax cuts, a crime bill that arguably contributed to mass incarceration of African Americans, symbolic concessions to social conservatives despite being socially liberal overall, a US foreign policy in which preventive war plays a significant role. “I married my best friend”.
For me, this unacknowledged piece of the back story seriously undermined the effectiveness of Bill Clinton’s otherwise touching performance.
Bill also acknowledged Hillary’s opponent, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
“Change maker” was a word and a theme he returned to again and again.
Hundreds of women took over the upper terrace of the Pennsylvania Convention Center on the second day of the Democratic National Convention here yesterday for the meeting of the Women’s Caucus. Mrs. Clinton’s accomplishments serving in the Senate were rare, but her ambition well-known.
The grand romantic drama Bill Clinton spun on Tuesday night didn’t answer those questions, or tell us how they navigated the heartbreak and tough going that he alluded to only in the most general terms. Republicans are making ineffective arguments (few voters think that she personally killed victims invoked at the Republican National Convention) when they had really strong ones that would undermine her image of competence (e.g., she bollixed up Hillarycare, was blindsided by the spread of al-Qaeda, had no coherent approach to the Arab Spring).
“Good for you, because earlier today you nominated the real one”, he said to the Democratic Party. “You just have to decide which is which, my fellow Americans”. He is a former President who has returned to the political arena because his wife is running for President-and he may return to the White House, in a role that no one has ever filled, if she wins.
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The goal was to make Clinton, perhaps the most famous female politician in the world, yet a public figure her aides claim remains unknown, relatable to voters.
