“Does Donald Trump have the temperament to be commander-in-chief?” she asked.
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Earlier in the week, the gathering featured former Democratic Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, as well as Barack Obama, who defeated Clinton in the Democratic nominating contest in 2008 and then brought her into his administration as secretary of state. The stakes are high: A loss to Trump could not only end Clinton’s political career, it could be a devastating coda to her and her husband’s political legacy and leave the Democratic Party weaker than it has been in a generation. “So if they lose, it will be because their people did not come out and vote – not because a majority of Americans who are eligible to vote want to vote for Donald Trump”.
Clinton’s acceptance speech Thursday night in a general thematic sense wasn’t all that different from her Roosevelt Island speech. “Donald Trump, you are no Ronald Reagan”, said Doug Elmets, a Reagan administration aide, echoing a famous debate quip by vice presidential nominee Lloyd Bentsen in 1988.
CNN’s indefensible “news” judgment on the VFW speeches suggests that this highly anticipated publicity spigot is going to be turned off now that Trump’s opponent is Hillary Clinton, and not other Republicans.
She said she would be a president for Democrats, Republicans and independents – “for all those who vote for me and those who don’t”. However, one Gallup poll found her to be the country’s most admired woman. (The Republican platform does too, to the surprise of many observers.) “I believe Wall Street can never, ever be allowed to wreck Main Street again”, Clinton said.
On NBC, Tom Brokaw said, “For the disenchanted Republicans who are out there, she didn’t give them a lot of hope that she would change the status quo”.
A comprehensive immigration reform that provides a path to citizenship to millions of immigrants, including Indians, is a major election promise of Ms Clinton, 68, who is the first women presidential nominee of a major political party.
“I was going to say it before”.
“When there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit”, she said.
“When any barrier falls in America, for anyone, it clears the way for everyone”. The same, of course, is true of Mr. Trump, but she fares far worse than he does on questions of honesty and trustworthiness, the diligent efforts of fact-checkers to debunk his wild prevarications notwithstanding.
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Sanders’ supporters threatened a mass protest during Clinton’s remarks and while there were isolated protests and boos, much of the crowd was enthralled by her speech. “And when he explodes, he shows an emotion that most people don’t associate with what we want in a president”. The image was subtle, but remarkable: For the first time in American history, the two women onstage were not the spouses of the candidates. “Our country needs your ideas, energy and passion”. But it’s perhaps a significant shortfall in the eyes of one person, in particular: Mr. Trump, who had taken to TwitterTWTR 2.02 % to brag about his speech’s “great” ratings last weekend.
