Older women, especially, see a woman who managed to keep her family intact under ugly personal scrutiny, while making an awesome transition from first lady to secretary of state and now the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party.
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Roberta Gassman, who serves as a senior fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Social Work, said the moment was “even more powerful” than she imagined it would be. “Unify the country”, said Dianne Krumel, a delegate from Pensacola. The Wells Fargo Center seemed completely absorbed as Bill recounted the early years of his life with Hillary, including how she turned down his early proposals.
She said in a debate a year ago: “I am probably still going to pick the flowers and the china for state dinners and stuff like that”.
When Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic nomination for president Thursday, she made clear just how little the party of President Obama looks like the party that nominated her husband. She is defensive. She fights for privacy, yet she has chosen politics played on the most expansive of all scales.
Hillary detractors across the country must have been nodding in agreement, saying she was right then. “Nobody would ever vote for me”. “Two of my great-grandmothers perished in the Holocaust”, Gassman said.
“She’s the best darn change-maker I’ve ever met in my entire life”. But it took her a long time to run on her own accord.
Having women in leadership roles – whether in politics, business or elsewhere – changes the frame of the conversation, Sargent said. Since launching her bid last summer, the Democratic nominee has cycled through a series of slogans: “Fighting for Us”, “Breaking Down Barriers” and, most recently, “Stronger Together”. And we heard him tell us to “stay here”, as if we had any intention of leaving or anywhere else to go.
Hune acknowledges the significance of Clinton being the first female nominee of a major party, but adds that the night is historic for another reason. It’s been more than 14 years since she vouched for Bill Clinton on “60 Minutes” after the allegations of an affair with Gennifer Flowers surfaced (1992), tried to re-make American health care (1993), wrote the book “It Takes a Village” to soften her image (1996) and vouched for Bill in yet another sex scandal (1998).
Throughout this campaign, the media has talked about an “enthusiasm gap” for Mrs Clinton – the idea that those voting for her only do so grudgingly. When men raise their voices they come off as rousing and gripping, when women raise theirs, they’re said to be screaming and grating. When she was Secretary of State, she put women and girls at the heart of everything she did.
She has pledged to give him a role in a potential second Clinton administration dealing with the economy, trying to capitalize on her husband’s economic record while he was in the White House. “I just don’t want you to be shot by someone who shouldn’t have a gun in the first place”, she said. “I think this is only the beginning”. That helped offset her at-times stiff delivery and protest interruptions that were quickly drowned out, albeit awkwardly, by chants of “Hillary”. “She’s married to a man who hurt many women”, Trump said at a rally in Spokane, Washington.
Falk surprised her by thanking her for her leadership as well, Zamarripa said. This theory explains that people expect women to act in certain ways – and that if a woman’s behaviour isn’t congruent with expectations of femininity, people won’t like or accept her. The double bind that female politicians face is augmented by the deep sense that leadership is a male domain and politics in general is a domain of power – power that we are not culturally comfortable to have women wield. Showalter’s research suggests that electing women to higher-profile positions appears to encourage other women to run for office – and win.
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Again. Hillary has made more re-introductions than should be allowed for a person who has never gone away. “That’s the beauty of it”, she said. Actually doing the work is hard. Kaine said he’s a progressive in the conservative South, which “may be different” than being a progressive elsewhere in the U.S. He spoke Thursday on ABC’s “Good Morning America”.
