From the literary opening line – “In the spring of 1971, I met a girl” – to the sermon-like closing – “Those of us who have more yesterdays than tomorrows” – he brought to the task the full range of his rhetorical skills.
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Unveiling the Hillary we supposedly don’t know has been the perpetual, elusive goal of Clinton’s handlers for decades, with the Democratic convention in Philadelphia the latest stab at it. “I didn’t join the Law Review, but I did leave that library with a whole new goal in mind”, he said. Others “believe she is doing it for personal gain”, he said.
“So I stood up from the desk, walked over to him and said, ‘If you’re going to keep looking at me, and I’m going to keep looking back, we might as well be introduced”. “Because you know he knows how to do it”, she said in May.
“I was so impressed and surprised that, whether you believe it or not, momentarily I was speechless”.
This is not to make a fetish of Rauch’s 14-year rule – such rules of thumb are made to be broken – but it speaks to how utterly, drearily, inescapably familiar Hillary Clinton is.
We’ve all seen the polls. He seems more likable? He says a lot of professors tell their students the story of the Clintons’ first date at the Yale Art Gallery. She’s been around a long time.
Did Trump ever do such work? And he told us about the night the future president’s water broke.
Both Williams and Clark quickly noticed Bill Clinton’s passion for politics, but both said they never considered Hillary would be a candidate for president.
Oh yes, I listened to some of that angry talk while sitting on a screen porch at the cottage my family had rented in Madison. That relentless, transparent ambition is, I suspect, one of the things that adds to her low approval ratings and low trustworthy numbers: these two will lie about anything in order to get what they want. Because yes, that’s how cute his love story with Hillary Clinton is. I will never forgive Bill for his shameful conduct with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and, on a much larger scale, I will never forgive Hillary for voting to authorize our disastrous invasion of Iraq. For those who vote for me and those who don’t. Bernie Sanders in the CT primary.
By 2001, Hillary and Bill were broke, she claimed.
Bill Clinton just delivered his hotly anticipated DNC speech, and basically recounted the plot of a Nicholas Sparks novel. As I wrote in a column two summers ago when Clinton came to R.J. She studies bulging policy briefing books to look prepared; he studies them to look spontaneous. In 1967, four years before the Clintons began dating, American men ranked “good cook/housekeeper” “refinement / neatness” and “pleasing disposition” as more important qualities in a wife than intelligence.
On the other hand, McBeth said Bill Clinton’s teaching style was more freewheeling -interspersing storytelling with legal principles. And she’s amusing! She likes to throw back her head and laugh. Oh my God, what are you doing here?
“She’s a natural leader, a good organizer”, Bill said, “and she’s the best darn changemaker I’ve ever met in my entire life”.
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hillary Clinton has accepted the role as the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States.
But as effective as Clinton was in that small setting, later that day I watched Obama wow 16,000 people at Hartford’s XL Center.
Clinton knew the ground he had to cover.
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We can only hope that her inability to turn on big audiences when compared with that showman carnival barker Trump won’t lead to another defeat for her this November.
