But the accompanying photo on a number of major newspapers shows a photo of her husband and former president Bill Clinton.
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If Bill’s remarks sound like a standard bio speech, gussied up by a great orator, recall that most conventions that nominate a senator or former senator spend little time on their congressional career.
Even on an historic night for both, Hillary and Bill Clinton could not avoid a media controversy not of their own making.
PHILADELPHIA, PA – JULY 26: on the second day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center, July 26, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
It’s just a taste of the sort of controversy sure to follow the first-ever First Dude should Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump.
Hillary Clinton accepted the U.S. Democratic Party’s nomination for president Tuesday after Bernie Sanders helped make it official when the roll call got to his home state of Vermont.
But last night he had to be careful not to overshadow his wife.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – This time, Bill Clinton was the adoring spouse, smiling and clapping when the cameras cut away from the candidate in the spotlight.
Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez spoke at the convention Thursday night.
Way back in the 1970s, a young Ms. Clinton may have been on the left wing of the party.
After all, that’s what political wives have come to expect.
He met her at Yale Law School, where, one day, she walked over to him in the library and said, “If you’re going to keep staring at me, and now I’m staring back, we at least ought to know each other’s name”.
Much of the world is watching this shift in the US cultural-gender zeitgeist with a bit of a yawn. Women are the main wage earners in four out of 10 USA households.
As a highly produced video put up a cheery view of the first Clinton presidency, the country was already of two minds over what it was about to see. “It’s possible to be a woman and have power and be good”.
“He’ll stand in his tuxedo on the north steps, greeting a state leader beside Hillary in an evening gown”. They continually interrupted the former president, questioning the aftershocks of his 1994 crime bill, which imposed tougher prison sentences and gave money for tens of thousands of police officers and drug courts, among other things.
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.
There’s something to be said for familiarity, yes. He had secured the nomination but his candidacy was marred by his efforts to avoid serving in Vietnam and allegations, later confirmed, of extramarital affairs.
The latter is what Gary Sebelius favored when his wife, Kathleen, was elected Kansas governor in 2012.
At first I thought she was joking, but I quickly learned that women had not been allowed to wear trousers up to that point.
In what is certainly a first at a Democratic convention, he invoked two of the most controversial Republicans of his time, Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich, as character witnesses for her.
Haussler said her group is excited to return to campus in the fall to build a coalition of students to campaign for Clinton in CT.
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Besh said she won’t vote for Clinton in November, even though she has been a Democrat her entire life, because she is “thoroughly disgusted” by what’s going on in this election: “The fraud, the email leaks, also the classified emails”.
