His vice president, Joe Biden, also will address the convention on Wednesday, in a reminder to some Democrats that the candidate they wanted this year was the one they couldn’t have.
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If the former first lady and secretary of state win in November’s general election, the US will have its first female president and first presidential male partner. Hillary, our beloved Tracy Flick, “never takes the easy way out”.
I never actually heard the dots put together in a way where I do, “oh, that’s who she is, she’s kind of like this workaholic do-gooder chick”.
Complicating matters are the various conflicts of interest he might represent.
BILL CLINTON: I want to nominate a man who’s cool on the outside but who burns for America on the inside. Elected to the Senate from NY in 2000, Hillary is technically only a couple of years past this benchmark for staleness – except this doesn’t do justice to how long she has been around, and especially how long it feels she’s been around.
Late previous year, Hillary was asked by late-night host Jimmy Kimmel what her husband would be called if she becomes president.
Clinton, however, will do much worse. When he ran for the first time in 1992, Bill Clinton used to boast that voters would be getting two for the price of one – a declaration that became problematic for the Clintons.
“I turned red and she laughed that big laugh of hers”.
As the kids say, awkward.
Trump has also seized on Clinton-era policy issues, going after NAFTA, which Trump has vowed to renegotiate. “I suppose I could have stayed home, baked cookies and had teas”, she said in 1992.
That is what Barack and I think about every day as we try to guide and protect our girls through the challenges of this unusual life in the spotlight, how we urge them to ignore those who question their father’s citizenship or faith. “She had thick blond hair, big glasses, wore no makeup, and she had a sense of strength and self-possession that I found magnetic”, Clinton, 69, said.
Wait, he was back to their romance. The first African American president will deliver his speech the day after the first woman was nominated by a major political party. Before you knew it, he was talking policy, and how the government needed to step in to make sure children with disabilities could get an equal education.
Then back to him proposing again.
It was around that time that Jeffrey Frankel came to the White House as one of President Clinton’s economic advisers.
“I married my best friend”, he said.
Note how Maddow seemed about to conclude her comments by saying “the end of the speech was really good”, but felt compelled, perhaps out of honesty or feminist solidarity, to add her observation about the beginning of the speech being “shocking and weird”.
His brief boiled down to this: “She’s the best darn change maker I ever met in my entire life”.
“She should win, but I don’t underestimate what she faces”, Daley said. Up until now she’s been like this mystery and nearly you’re able to project what you want to on her. “That is just who she is”. They may not know all the details of her advocacy work as a young woman, but they have seen her smash-mouth partisanship, her grating insincerity, her gross money-grubbing, her serial dishonesties, her cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof caution and her grind-out ambition that has lacked a light touch or any poetry.
Hillary Clinton has been a national political figure for a quarter-century, longer than any presidential candidate.
Even Bill Daley, who knows that in politics anything can happen and usually does, is allowing himself the luxury of optimism – in small doses.
Democrats will tell you how great this was.
The insta-analysis afterward held that the ol’ guy still has some stemwinders left in him.
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Twitter was both less forgiving or more admiring.
