At one point, as delegates booed a mention of Trump, Obama quickly replied, “Don’t boo”. “Meanwhile, Donald Trump calls our military a disaster”. Speaking skill, stage presence, storytelling, and idealism are not yet obsolete.
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In Cleveland, during last week’s Republican National Convention, there was no question who the enemy was. She said her 10,000 percent profit in trading cattle futures was completely on the up-and-up.
For Bill Clinton, this might well be seen as the most important and most challenging speech of his life. It would have been a powerful moment that lent credibility to everything else he said.
First Lady Michelle Obama previously gave a powerful DNC speech on Monday, July 25, when she spoke about the first couple’s daughters, Malia, 18, and Sasha, 15, and how future generations would benefit from having Clinton as POTUS.
One of Clinton’s wonderful gifts is her relentless ability to see herself as everything she isn’t.
Democrats also have enjoyed better television ratings. But many Sanders delegates cited this episode as yet another indication that the Democratic establishment was trying to smother the Sanders revolution. The rest of the time, we retreat to our own corners of Fox and MSNBC.
In a nation divided, where our dialogue so often seems ripped out of the comment sections and online message boards, these past two weeks are showing the power of leaders sitting down and crafting their thoughts on a legal pad or computer screen.
Two Sanders supporters hug at the end of his speech during the first session at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. They don’t want to vote for Donald Trump.
Reporters asked over and over for details of what had actually happened with Turner, and her high-profile allies declined to provide any specifics.
And the president said he’s now “ready to pass the baton and do my part as a private citizen”. “It was angry, it was aggressive, it was in your face”.
“It wasn’t conventional political oratory”, he added.
You can’t run the election you want. He would take on Trump in the area where the NY real estate developer seeks to appeal to voters: his business acumen, said campaign chair Podesta. Clinton’s campaign aides say they hope he’ll campaign for her vigorously this fall.
If Jesus Christ himself were the Democratic nominee, the GOP would right now be questioning his parentage, demanding to see his birth certificate, calling him soft on crime, accusing him of turning the other cheek to America’s enemies, and mocking him as someone who only got the job because of his father. The very first line was risky given the back story, but it was a grabber and unlike any ever heard at a convention before: “In the spring of 1971, I met a girl”. It was an unusual approach, using his fraught marriage as the narrative thread of his 45-minute speech.
Mr Clinton dismissed the Republican attacks as a byproduct of flawed policies and a reaction to his wife’s over-qualifications to be the United States president, seeking to create “a cartoon alternative” of Hillary Clinton and to run against that.
Several yards away on the plaza, which features a statue of late Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo and giant board game pieces, a small handful of men held signs reading “Homo Sex Is Sin” and “Time for America To Bless God”.
Like Trump, she is not known for stellar speech-making. And too many news clips where she seemed to be parsing every word out of her mouth.
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Our own suggestion is that given the fact that the Democrats have occupied the White House for two terms, the hard third-term syndrome should have favoured the GOP and Mr Trump, who would likely have been ahead in the polls, had he been a less controversial candidate. Debates will follow in the fall. Few politicians are better at such things than Clinton. It captured the day’s media attention.
