Democratic National Committee secretary and emergency-gavel-person Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is also the mayor of Baltimore, a city shaken by the news that all charges against police officers would be dropped in the Freddie Gray case just before the third day of the convention started in earnest. You all know-all the Republicans know that’s not who we are.
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But there was still something weird for someone who came of age during the culture wars of the 1990s to see the Democrats so aggressively displaying not only faith but a parade of speakers associated with the military at a Democratic convention – and have nearly the exact opposite at the Republican convention.
And the conventions are less about the world either party will ultimately create than the one they want us to dream we live in.
I don’t know anything.
Donald Trump went on a Twitter tirade after Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech – calling her “corrupt” and criticizing her failure to mention radical Islam.
She and Trump are not that far apart in the polls, and Clinton has little room for error as she tries to appeal to those who don’t like her, and to independent and even Republican voters who may be willing to vote for her. “She tweeted:”#crookedHillary doesn’t understand that there is only ONE President not a village of Presidents. Could this speech compare to what she had to do in 1996, when she was expected to defend her husband, Bill Clinton, personally and professionally?
D’Angora, who worked on LGBTQ outreach for the Clinton campaign, is a huge fan.
“America is great”, Clinton said in her speech, “because America is good”.
The only thing I could imagine would be harder is if Steph Curry was asked to hand the trophy to LeBron James and then say a few words on King James’ behalf.
Clinton’s image is so bad that even as she prepared to accept the nomination Thursday night, diehard supporters of Bernie Sanders posted a “Liar” sign on the convention floor. “I don’t think there was enough there to bridge to that community”. Everybody can’t be a William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic populist member of Congress from Nebraska, who gave us the immortal, “you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold”. Yet resentments lingered throughout the convention, with a handful of attendees booing during her address. Both tried to do that this year, he said, but Democrats benefit from better organized campaigns.
Lucia Baez, a Florida teacher, said on that note that Clinton hit the mark. And also when she spoke about her experience with disabled children, and the time she wonderfully said, “When there are no ceilings, the sky is the limit”, it touched me and I am sure many others. She pledged to oppose “unfair trade deals”, “make college tuition-free for the middle class” and “get money out of politics” by overturning the Citizens United Supreme Court decision. We say: “We’ll fix it together”.
Not to four years ago and the deceptive spin that Clinton and others in the Obama administration tossed out after a terrorist attack on the US embassy in Benghazi, Libya.
The Democrats are gambling that they are the party that most looks like America right now, so they’ve made the single biggest claim of either party to the sorts of values central to America’s conception of itself at their convention. “They know we’ve got to unite and stop Trump”.
The strongman comparisons arose from Trump’s boastful rhetoric as well as his constitutionally questionable policy proposals, such as setting up a database of U.S. Muslims, torturing suspected terrorists, rounding up 11 million undocumented immigrants with a deportation force and loosening libel laws to make it easier to sue reporters.
But we don’t need any more data to definitively state that this country is divided – to such an extent, in fact, that those in attendance in Cleveland and Philadelphia were operating in different realities. We will rise to the challenge just as we always have. He also knocked down Hillary’s statement on Wall Street and measures to increase job opportunities in the US. It took me back to NYT veteran Jill Abramson’s assertion that even after launching numerous investigations as a reporter and editor into Clinton, she’s concluded: “Hillary Clinton is fundamentally honest and trustworthy”. “Standing here as my mother’s daughter, and my daughter’s mother, I’m so happy this day has come”. I’m happy for little girls and grandmothers.
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“Democrats are running like it’s morning in America”, Strimple said.
