Night two of the 2016 Democratic National Convention marked yet another historic moment for women in American politics as Hillary Clinton was officially named the Democratic presidential nominee.
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The tweet posted during Kaine’s Democratic National Convention speech Wednesday night said Kaine “wears a Honduras flag pin on his jacket but no American flag”.
“She’s the best darn change-maker I’ve ever met in my entire life”.
“You can drop her into any trouble spot – pick one – come back in a month and somehow, someway, she will have made it better”.
Bill Clinton brings to the convention stage rock star status within the Democratic Party, with a unique ability to fire up the base and turn out voters. “This woman always wants to move the ball forward, that’s just who she is”.
So maybe her glass-breaking entrance was just a little late.
If Hillary Clinton wins the White House in November, she would be the first female president of the United States.
This week, Chelsea – for the first time – shot back on that claim, challenging Ivanka to defend her father’s positions.
No sooner had Bill Clinton dodged conviction did speculation abound that Hillary might run for that soon-to-be vacant Senate seat in NY.
The former President went to great lengths to do that for her.
“Okay but Clinton saying “stay here” & help America as if a ton of Muslims (esp younger gen) aren’t FROM here”. You’ve got to get in the arena with her, because democracy isn’t a spectator sport.
But as she makes the case for her mother she has also notably been going on the offensive, directing attacks at Republican nominee Donald Trump.
And when she does, there’s one question that comes up again and again.
The real one, he argued, has made more positive change than many do in a lifetime, has childhood friends who work to elect her, has earned loyalty and respect of her colleagues, has drawn praise from across the aisle.
“She is a much more polished professional in our government system”, Acosta says with genuine admiration. “As he said, people in Arkansas didn’t know that she was the reason that they were benefiting from so many of these different programs”.
Like many out there, I take a perverse pleasure in the “punishment” of Bill Clinton: screw over your wife, and become a pioneer in the art of emasculation. And many of them weren’t even close. She worked mostly on feature stories and the network’s “Making a Difference” series. Hillary supported Bill for many years, but not while abandoning her dreams entirely.
But I don’t think that’s what happening, all humor aside.
He touched off a firestorm by encouraging Russian Federation to meddle in the presidential campaign – even as he dismissed suggestions from Obama and other Democrats that Moscow was already acting on the Republican’s behalf.
When you’re a brilliant woman, and a feminist, with a tremendous political career ahead of you, you’re going to know when your husband is screwing around.
“It’s Chelsea’s job tonight to show the human side of her mother”, said Grove. “And Hillary was an enabler and she treated these women horribly”.
In 1992, Clinton, then a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, dragged the party, kicking and screaming, toward the political center.
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“He’s got to remind America of what a presidency under Donald Trump would look like”, said Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings. “Her husband signed perhaps in the history of the world the single worst trade deal ever done”. 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. While the contest between their parents has become acrimonious, Ivanka Trump said in an interview with People Magazine this week that the two were “friendly”.
