REBECCA TRAISTER, Author, “All The Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation”: Buried in it is the blueprint for so much of what would come in the future for Hillary Clinton that I think still resonates today, when she’s on the verge of perhaps becoming the first woman president.
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This is not to make a fetish of Rauch’s 14-year rule – such rules-of-thumb are made to be broken – but it speaks to how utterly, drearily, inescapably familiar Hillary Clinton is.
The former president has turned into a frequent target for Trump, who has railed about the former president’s personal life from the campaign trail.
Former President Bill Clinton recalled his courtship and life with Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night, but one anecdote set social media on fire.
Said Clinton, in a surprise appearance on video at night’s end: “We just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet”.
If only we could get to know the real Hillary Clinton. And so, in the early ’70s, Hillary Rodham had this choice: Does she embark on her own career, or does she go to Arkansas, where she doesn’t know anybody except for her boyfriend, and begin a career on her own as a lawyer, but really as a secondary figure to this man who is going to embark on what she thinks is destined to be a very serious and successful career in politics?
The former President went to great lengths to do that for her. The convention gets underway at 4 p.m. EST (3 p.m. CST) with Clinton expected to take the stage about 9 – 9:30 p.m. EST (8 – 8:30 p.m. CST).
“In the spring of 1971 I met a girl”, he mused at the beginning of the speech – as though Hillary Clinton was just any girl he might have courted in a long flowered skirt.
In 1975, “I married my best friend, ” he said.
Richardson said she felt that for most of the American public that is a story that they don’t know.
Asked about the high level of distrust that many voters feel about Hillary Clinton, Richardson said testimonials like Bill’s are exactly what is needed to change those perceptions.
JUDY WOODRUFF: When Bill was elected governor in 1979, Hillary took on an unofficial, but active role, says former White House aide David Gergen.
“She doesn’t understand trade”, Trump said. You get two people who are incredibly smart and well-educated and, again, whether you agree with their policies or not, are committed to certain policies and have been trying to work on those all their lives.
The US Presidential candidate said that her win would give hope to other women and girls that they can achieve anything in the US.
Watch how he’s introduced: Hillary Clinton has joked that she’s still working on what to call her husband if she’s elected, offering “first dude” and “first mate” as possibilities.
Tyler Durden writes at Zero Hedge that the documentary film “Clinton Cash”, based on Peter Schweizer’s bestselling book and new graphic novel of the same name, shows how Bill and Hillary Clinton amassed a fortune by leveraging public service to feather their own nest. “Especially in places like coal country and inner cities and other parts of our country that have really been left out”.
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Clinton will address delegates in Philadelphia during the DNC’s prime time event airing on cable channels and major networks. “I don’t care what I’m called, it’s more about what I’m called to do”.
