On Thursday night, as the world watched Hillary Clinton become the first woman to accept the nomination for president of a major US political party, a stark difference emerged in the sentiment across Twitter. A Muslim American father who lost his solider son in Iraq, and a retired four-star general accompanied by a battery of military veterans that represented the ethnic diversity of the U.S military, set the mood for Ms. Clinton’s pitch to be the first woman commander-in-chief of the most powerful military in the world.
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A majority of the Sanders delegates said they would support Clinton, and the disunity in the Wells Fargo Arena was more a vocal minority than a full-on rebellion.
United States presidential candidate Hillary Clinton cast herself as the steady leader at a “moment of reckoning” for America, contrasting her character with what she described as a unsafe and volatile Donald Trump.
Clinton was clearly emotional as she walked on stage, and said: “I’m so happy this day has come”.
“Bernie, your campaign inspired millions of Americans…” She also says terror attacks around the world require “steady leadership” to defeat a determined enemy.
“I will be a president for Democrats, Republicans, and independents”, she added.
Former Reagan administration official Doug Elmets announced he was casting his first vote for a Democrat in November, and urged other Republicans who “believe loyalty to our country is more important than loyalty to party” to do the same. “She’s ready. She never quits”. “That feeling of being valued and loved, that’s what my mom wants for every child”, she said. “We will rise to the challenge, just as we always have”.
I bring this all up because the objective of this speech was to let you into who the real Hillary Clinton is. “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man you can trust with nuclear weapons”. “From my first day in office to my last!”
Clinton faces a major trust deficit among a United States public that has known her for the past quarter century. Rocked by a series of scandals, she is now about as unpopular with voters as her Republican rival. When she talked about her Methodist faith – “Do all the good you can” – she seemed to shine.
She was due to hit the campaign trail yesterday with her running mate, US Senator Tim Kaine.
During a fiery speech, President Barack Obama’s former envoy to the counter-Daesh coalition made an impassioned plea, casting Clinton as an expert stateswoman as he riled up the crowd. So here he is complaining about President Obama’s convention-speech reference to “homegrown demagogues”, which for some reason all of America presumed was a reference to Donald Trump.
“You have sacrificed nothing, and no one!” One of her speech themes, aides said, would be the lessons from her book “It Takes a Village”, where she wrote about the impact a community can have on children.
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“Donald you’re so vain. That is the only way we can turn our progressive platform into real change for America”. Her daughter’s speech on Thursday night is an opportunity to pull back the curtain on a woman the campaign described earlier this week as “the most famous, least-known person in the country”.
