Clinton failed the D.C. bar exam, an experience Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carl Bernstein characterized as a spectacular flameout in his 2007 biography of the Democratic presidential nominee.
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Leibrock said she hopes this can serve as a learning moment for publications and readers to be objective and know what they’re looking at.
Here are 10 images of Hillary and Bill from Night 4 of the DNC that prompt the question: Are the Clintons headed back to the White House? “She’s married to a man who hurt many women”, Trump said at a rally in Spokane, Washington.
Justin Holmes, a political science professor at the University of Northern Iowa, said Bill Clinton’s record -which included signing welfare reform, the Defense of Marriage Act, and his famous line that “the era of big government is over” – seems out of step. There were still many papers that put the Democratic nominee or her supporters on the front.
“They have opportunities today that they basically take for granted”, she said, opportunities “that older women realize should not be taken for granted”. “It’s never been done before, but based on how he did this, I think he’s gonna fill it with grace and grit”, said Judy Noel, a Hillary Clinton delegate from Florida. Obama has not just spent nearly eight years transforming America – he also has thoroughly remade his party into a vessel of liberalism not seen since the George McGovern days in the 1970s. Among Democratic voters, 79% view him favorably.
But Bill Clinton had a trickier task.
On taking her J.D.in 1973, she sat for the D.C. and Arkansas bar exams, marking a fairly prosaic start to her career as a legal practitioner. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey fielded July 9-13 found women registered voters were 13 points more likely than men to back Clinton over Trump in a head-to-head contest.
Other Clinton voters made clear that they were supporting her exclusively on her merits, not her husband’s. “Just remember this. And some of those women were destroyed not by him, but by the way Hillary Clinton treated them after everything went down”.
He also credited her-perhaps too much-for his own ambition, arguing that she had believed in him and pushed him into office. In April he was confronted at a campaign event for his wife in Philadelphia by Black Lives Matter activists over his administration’s 1994 crime bill.
Gone are most of the conservative Southern Democrats and moderate Blue Dog Democrats that made up a significant chunk of the party in the 1990s and even into the first decade of the 21st century. Bernie Sanders supporter from El Paso, is lukewarm to Clinton but staunchly opposed to Trump. Among those ages 65 and older – a group that overall supports Clinton at lower rates than younger adults – there is a 13-point gap between the share of women (52%) and men (39%) who favor the Democratic candidate.
Maher’s guest Salman Rushdie mostly agreed, calling Thursday’s address the “best speech” he’s ever heard from Clinton and saying she even “looked happy”, unlike Bernie Sanders, who appeared to be just about as miserable as he’s ever been during the numerous times the camera cut to him. The meeting was widely criticized given that the attorney general was overseeing the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state.
Clinton was clearly emotional as she walked on stage, and said: “I’m so happy this day has come”. “I am exhausted of the stranglehold that women have had on the job of presidential spouse”, Bill Clinton said.
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Hillary Clinton has suggested that in lieu of first lady he could be called “first dude, the first mate, the first gentlemen”. “Especially in places like coal country and inner cities and other parts of our country that have really been left out”. As a first spouse, your role is to also enthusiastically humanize your partner, giving personal anecdotes, like how the two of you first met, and what good of a parent they really are. Then you have one of your flak-catchers say you never said it. “I don’t care what I’m called, it’s more about what I’m called to do”.
