Perhaps their worst moments – the Monica Lewinsky scandal, impeachment and legal battles that followed – were conspicuously omitted. But Clinton argued the audience hadn’t fallen for it, revealing that-spoiler alert-he believed his wife was the real one. “She wanted to do it because she knew that Tom DeLay, for all our differences, was an adoptive parent, and she honored him for doing that”. Everything Hillary did in this early section of the speech made her more intimidating and out of reach-Bill was impressed when she spoke to him first and asked him out, but he was also speechless.
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“She’s a natural leader, a good organizer”, Bill said, “and she’s the best darn changemaker I’ve ever met in my entire life”. “This woman has never been satisfied with the status quo on anything. She was just a workhorse for the suffrage movement”.
She is facing a tough challenge from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Obama stressed that Clinton has specific ideas and “real plans to address concerns”, unlike her Republican opponent.
“I have lived a long full blessed life”.
“If you agree that there is too much inequality in our economy and too much money in politics, we all need to be as vocal and as organized and as persistent as Bernie Sanders supporters have been during this election”, Obama said. It is she, not Sanders, who is the Democratic nominee, and the first woman to have won the nomination of a major U.S. political party. Would he be the first gentleman? Clinton has been a frequent traveler to India and she has several Indian Americans in her campaign staff playing key role in her election strategy and policy making.
The 41 minute and 47 second speech was 27 minutes shorter than Donald Trump’s speech at the RNC, but Bill Clinton was far from the main event of the four day festival of crumbling unity. “This is more about her”.
Almost 70, he’s also a bit frailer, a touch shakier, though aides and friends say his famous memory remains sharp.
Speaking with USA Today, a former chief of staff to Laura Bush said a likely scenario is Bill would still be referred to as Mr. President. “He’s not the once and future king, he’s the once and past king”.
Bill Clinton wrote the first draft of his Tuesday speech himself before sharing it with the campaign and some of his longtime speechwriters, and was tinkering with it as late as Tuesday afternoon. But now she has to close the sale. “They’re as strong as ever; still cherished by people of every party, every race, every faith (…) That’s why anyone who threatens our values, whether fascists or communists or jihadists or homegrown demagogues, will always fail in the end”, he said.
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“I am probably still going to pick the flowers and the china for state dinners”, Hillary Clinton said in a December primary debate.
