“The 36-year-old mother of two will take the convention stage Thursday night at a symbolic moment – introducing her mother to formally accept the Democratic nomination”.
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But tone and delivery is just part of Clinton’s challenge as she tries to meet the oratorical challenge of Donald Trump.
“I’m going to put (him) in charge of revitalizing the economy”, Clinton said in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, this May. Her running mate, Sen. They have yielded dozens of detailed policy proposals, addressing everything from puppy mills to insurance coverage for autism care. She has been active in the campaign, as with her mother’s past campaigns.
“I think the more they hear about her between now and November 8th, the more they will realize that she’s human”. Hillary Clinton talks about her too, often telling a story about toddler Chelsea asking her to stop singing lullabies. “It’s not that she has experience, it’s that she has a record of fighting for you”. She has fully embraced being a Clinton and is now deliberately, willfully, on the road to greatness, “Vanity Fair wrote in a profile a year ago”. “Even if the audience feels a step let down, trying to be someone she isn’t won’t help her”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, while not directly denying Russian involvement in the hack, says Moscow would never interfere in another country’s election.
That’s a flattering explanation for a serious political challenge.
Will Trump sit on his hands during Clinton’s speech or live-tweet his reaction? Yet in a news conference Wednesday, Trump tried to turn the table on Clinton, saying he believed it unsafe for her to receive national security briefings in light of her mishandling of classified information via email while in office. They enthusiastically cheered the former U.S. President.
One of the joys of convention watching on television is seeing the traditional roll call when, before announcing their votes, delegates from the U.S. States and Territories get to do a little bragging about where they are from.
In the four years since the party’s last national convention, the centre of gravity in Democratic politics has shifted decidedly to the left.
We congratulate Hillary Clinton who, after a grueling 15-month campaign, has finally clinched the Democratic Party’s nomination for United States president, making history as the first woman to be picked by a major political party to run for the White House.
“Dorothy and Hugh’s daughter and my sweet friend”, proclaimed childhood friend Betsey Eberling.
“You are defending the people who killed the lives you say matter”, Clinton pushed back from the podium.
“Her whole philosophy, that has been true of her whole life, is that ‘It Takes a Village,’ ” Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri said, referring to the title of one of the nominee’s books.
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President Barack Obama’s decision to identify Russian Federation as nearly certainly the culprit in hacking the Democratic National Committee and releasing politically embarrassing emails fits his administration’s new penchant for openly blaming foreign governments for such break-ins. He said blaming Russian Federation was deflecting attention from the embarrassing material in the emails, which WikiLeaks published last week on its website. Doing so may result in civil and/or criminal penalties.
