“And I knew that I wanted to fight for social justice”. But like the views about his GOP opponent, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, Kaine is still a blank slate to many potential voters.
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“Somebody shouldn’t be imprisoned because we won’t provide funding for community mental health”, Kaine said at a mental health conference in 2008, shortly after the bills were signed, according to the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk. “An incredible cultural diversity that succeeds when we embrace everyone in love and battle back against the dark forces of division”. Of his running mate, he told the audience, “Hillary Clinton and I are companeros de alma”. That’s what you’re about.
He even snuck a Bernie Sanders shout-out into the speech. He was introducing himself to America as an avuncular successor to Uncle Joe Biden.
It was long ago and far away when Barack Obama snippily remarked, “You’re likable enough, Hillary”. “And friends, Hillary Clinton, she’s ‘lista.’ Hillary Clinton is lista”.
But a vice presidential nominee isn’t only supposed to be warm and fuzzy.
Kaine has promised to offer legal status to those living in the country illegally in the first 100 days.
But Meyer, who said he will vote for Clinton in November, said his opinion has been evolving as he learns more about Kaine.
The speech was to come on the third night of a Democratic convention that has moved steadily from a scene of raucous division to a display of party unity and enthusiasm for its presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
After an in-depth video montage lead-in by Virginia Rep. Bobby Scott, we got to learn the basics of Virginia Sen.
“I have never seen anything more craven than Mitch McConnell and what he has done to our democracy”. The problem with the party, his speech implied, was mainly Trump.
Said Clinton, in a surprise appearance on video at night’s end: “We just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet”. “They said they trust Hillary to keep other mothers’ sons and daughters safe”. They got pennies on the dollar. Some of them went out of business. “But it is harder to look your kids in the face, who would be living under a Donald Trump presidency”. As for Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who had the honor of hosting the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last week, “didn’t even show up” because “Trump is such a moral disaster”.
Kean, who chaired the federal 9/11 commission, skipped this year’s Republican National Convention, the first time he’s done that since he became involved in politics, because he disagreed with Trump on too many issues.
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Some Sanders delegates are considering a protest during Kaine’s speech Wednesday night, said California delegate Norman Solomon, who surveyed more than 300 supporters of the Vermont senator. Kaine said, mimicking Trump. “If you don’t believe this election is important, if you think you can sit it out, take a moment to think about the Supreme Court justices that Donald Trump would nominate and what that would mean to civil liberties, equal rights and the future of our country”, he said. The question is whether voters will believe him.
