We had not even voted and it seemed that she was being anointed the Democratic nominee for president.
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Clinton has said she wants Obama to campaign for her and Obama has said he will do so often between now and the November 8 election. The America I know is decent and generous.
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The Democrats have sought to buttress Clinton with a star gathering of current and past party notables in Philadelphia. Her speech centred on the future of the children of the United States, as she described her journey as the First Lady raising two wonderful daughters in the most famous house in the world: the White House.
Now, some 40 years in, the Clintons’ marriage has emerged to serve as an example: partnership can take many forms, and sacrifice, while important, needn’t be absolute.
Obama, whose wife, Michelle, gave Clinton a rousing tribute at the convention on Monday, is scheduled to give his 30-minute speech at 10:30 p.m. EDT (0230 GMT on Thursday).
“She flew all night long from Cambodia to the Middle East to get a ceasefire that would avoid a full-out shooting war between Hamas and Israel, to protect the peace of the region”. “Actually doing the work is hard”. Since a Clinton presidency would guarantee Republicans could not repeal the Affordable Care Act, there could be a consensus on how to improve it in some sort of grand compromise.
He then recalled his first failed attempt to persuade her to marry him, when they were in the Lake District during a United Kingdom holiday.
In between these personal accounts he wove in bits about her professional biography, as well as her political and policy commitments.
Clinton’s running mate, Virginia Sen. Bill told about a woman who had to be convinced to be a political leader. “There are going to be people who boo. She thinks she does, but you can only buy so much support”. “If we vote for Hillary, we’d be voting for the lesser of two evils”, said Handy.
Stanley ended his fast after Clinton’s historic nomination became official Tuesday night. People have often made the case that people don’t like ambitious women, or – more specifically – that Clinton’s ambition makes her less likable.
“It will be tough for Hillary Clinton to make a credible argument that she will bring a change in direction”, Kerbel said. This is not all that different from other presidential spouses such as Eleanor Roosevelt and Nancy Reagan, who were under constant scrutiny as unelected advisers. Clinton or a Secretary of State Clinton had she not married Bill Clinton and rode his coattails to prominence.
But as standard as the speech was on its face, Bill Clinton is not Elizabeth Dole, or Laura Bush or Tipper Gore. He painted a picture of a person who is eminently dependable, with “an extra responsibility gene”. “But it should be about her. She’s reached this monumental platform”, she said. That’s the Hillary I’ve come to admire. She knows what’s at stake in the decisions our government makes for the working family, the senior citizen, the small business owner, the soldier, and the veteran.
“So numerous speakers are saying America is already great”, she said.
Bloomberg, one of the founders of a mayors’ initiative against illegal guns, is also a strong ally to Clinton in her efforts to reduce gun violence.
At the same time, the Republican National Convention just wrapped up last week, giving Republic nominee Donald Trump a boost in the polls that caused him to take the lead by a hair in the Real Clear Politics average of polls earlier this week.
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In that sense, this election is unique: both major-party candidates are uber-famous and extremely unpopular after spending decades in the public eye.
