Breaking a historic barrier, Hillary Clinton triumphantly captured the Democratic nomination for president Tuesday night, the first woman ever to lead a major political party in the race for the White House.
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Sen. Tim Kaine is schedule to accept his nomination as Clinton’s vice presidential running mate as the convention rolls into its third night.
Making the “biggest crack” in a glass ceiling, Hillary Clinton today scripted history by winning the Democratic presidential nomination to become the first woman flag-bearer of a major USA party as she set up an epic clash with Republican rival Donald Trump.
Martha McKenna, a Clinton delegate from Maryland, said the night felt like a celebration for Sanders’ campaign as well asClinton’s.
The shouts and jeers continued, followed by a chant of “We want Bernie!” Bill Clinton, Bernie Sanders and President Obama can only take her so far.
Inside, it was all about the Clintons.
“What an incredible honor that you have given me, and I can’t believe we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet”, Clinton said via satellite after a video montage showed the faces of all 44 male presidents before shattering like glass to reveal Clinton waiting to address the convention from NY. Seeking to explain the vastly different perceptions of his wife, Clinton said simply, “One is real, the other is made up”. But it’s also come with a warning: That last glass ceiling isn’t shattered yet and Republican Donald Trump is a formidable foe.
CNN’s most recent poll shows Clinton’s “favorables” are down to 39 percent – the lowest according to that organization since April 1992 when she haughtily (and ham-fistedly) pushed for a government takeover of our healthcare system. New York Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm was nominated at the 1972 Democratic National Convention, and her “unbought and unbossed” candidacy earned 152 delegate votes.
“She is still the best darn change-maker I have ever known”, the 69-year-old former president said in a mesmerising speech, asking his countrymen to vote and elect Hillary as the next U.S. president. “She had thick blond hair, big glasses, wore no makeup, and she had a sense of strength and self- possession that I found magnetic”. Heaping scorn on the GOP nominee is the underlying theme of their convention, not lauding Hillary Clinton.
“She’s a change-maker. That’s what she does”, he said.
“She fought the way she always did”. She’s smart, just smart.
“Tonight we will make history, about 100 years in the making”, said Karen Finney, a senior adviser for Clinton’s campaign. That’s partly payback for Clinton’s loyal service as secretary of state during the president’s first term. He was asked about Trump having access to the nuclear codes. It’s also about our failure to distinguish between the courage it takes to tap a girl on the back and the effort it takes to stay with her, between persuading her to marry you, and convincing her to stay after you’ve metaphorically burned down that cute little un-air-conditioned starter house. “Basic knowledge about the world or what a nuclear triad is or where various countries are or the difference between Sunni and Shia in the Muslim world”.
Even Iraq and Libya, the Clinton offenses that are most clearly Hillary, are a product of DLC/neoliberal thinking that post-Bill Democrats are less inclined to find persuasive.
He said she would approve bad trade deals and allow possibly unsafe immigrants from the Middle East to flood the country.
“We’re going to be the reason you’re not elected”, Richards said.
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But he said states should have control over minimum wage, saying the cost of living varies too much by state to make a universal minimum wage feasible. Shortly after, a large group of delegates walked out of the building and headed towards the media tent in protest. But on Tuesday night, he hinted, just barely, that Clinton perhaps is finally getting her part of the deal.
