Clinton’s landmark achievement saturated the roll call with emotion and symbols of women’s long struggle to break through political barriers.
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In the case of the Houston Chronicle, who printed an article online about the furor, not only did they mention that “the timing of the speech surpassed print deadlines for newspapers”, another factor leading to the selection of a Bill photo instead of a Hillary photo was one of attendance.
Former President Bill Clinton got a rousing reception with his Tuesday night keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, emphasizing his wife’s record of being “the best darn changemaker I ever met in my entire life” and telling Americans the reasons Hillary Clinton should be the next president.
Hillary Clinton changed that Tuesday evening.
“It’s insane right now, I don’t think you can get more uncomfortable than this”, Coleman said.
When the chair of the convention called on the delegation from Vermont, Sanders took the microphone.
Cuomo began with a planned speech to the NY delegates attending the convention in Philadelphia, but he had to abbreviate it to leave time for the surprise guest to address the delegation of Clinton’s home state. And he’s proving that with the turnout that we had here in the DNC and the huge amount of support that he’s had come out and vote for him, that it’s possible to run democratic candidates grassroots, which is an even bigger deal. Some of them left the the floor and chanted “walk out” in the concourse of the arena. The singer-songwriter Alicia Keys played “Superwoman” as the photographs of all the previous 44 male presidents were shown on screen.
As Alicia Keyes closed the convention in song, portraits of all of America’s male presidents flashed across the arena screen, a glass shattered, and Hillary Clinton appeared live from NY.
Clinton’s path to this moment was decades in the making. In 2001, she became a senator from NY.
Obama and Clinton were rivals in the hard-fought campaign for the 2008 Democratic nomination. “When she didn’t win the nomination eight years ago, she didn’t get angry, or disillusioned”.
Clinton recounted seeing Hillary for the first time at Yale – a young woman with “thick blonde hair and big glasses” – but he failed to muster the courage to speak to her.
And then she turned her attention to any little girls who may have stayed up late to watch.
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The headliners of the night were former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and Mrs Clinton’s husband and former president Bill Clinton, who made his first appearance at a convention as a supporting spouse.
