Hillary Clinton’s speech detailed what has led her to seek this office, reiterated her career-long fight for healthcare and children’s rights, and took aim at her competition’s incompetencies, both professional and temperament-wise. Donald Trump, she said, “doesn’t like talking about plans”.
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Maher claimed that “sweet grandma Hillary” would have “done fine in 2008”.
“When I ran the last time, I felt like my biggest hurdle was to persuade Americans that a woman could be a president”, she said.
From Vox: The former president is speaking tonight in an approximation of the keynote spot usually reserved for the future first lady. “They want the wolf with bits of grandma in its teeth”.
Maher’s guest Salman Rushdie mostly agreed, calling Thursday’s address the “best speech” he’s ever heard from Clinton and saying she even “looked happy”, unlike Bernie Sanders, who appeared to be just about as miserable as he’s ever been during the numerous times the camera cut to him.
Check it out in the clip above. “It was a great speech, it was a unifying speech”, she said.
In tracing her public service as a USA senator from NY and later Secretary of State, Bill Clinton called Hillary Clinton “the best darn change-maker I’ve ever known”.
“I think what she did very well and very skillfully to kind of reach the across the aisle to those folks who maybe felt disillusioned by the primary process or who maybe are not super on board with her just yet”. But she could also assume the role as mother to every single child on this planet.
Both Bill and Hillary Clinton have a lot of baggage from their White House days. I can think of few more magnanimous signals for unity than that.
“It’s exciting”, she said.
He also highlighted the difference between the “real” Hillary Clinton versus the “fake” one described at the Republican National Convention last week.
“Although we weren’t able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it’s got about 18 million cracks in it”.
The Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, the Seattle Times, the Washington Times and the Houston Chronicle were just some of the newspapers who omitted a photo of Hillary Clinton from their front pages.
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Bill Clinton’s title may still be up for debate, but his wife already has been giving thought to the division of labor should she win.
