Clinton touched only briefly on the significance of the night for women and girls, even as her message of coalition-building and consensus-seeking reflect instincts shaped by her experiences as a woman.
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“I’m standing here as my mother’s daughter, and my daughter’s mother”. Because when any barrier falls in America, it clears the way for everyone.
He then transitioned to her record. “That feeling of being valued and loved, that’s what my mom wants for every child”, she said.
“From our inner cities to our small towns, Indian Country to Coal Country”, read excerpts of her speech. “She spent the evening talking down to the American people she’s looked down on her whole life”.
“The truth is, through all these years of public service, the “service” part has always come easier to me than the “public” part”, she said.
Clinton also promised working on the unfinished economic agenda of the Obama Administration and added her own set of proposals to it.
“I get it that some people just don’t know what to make of me so let me tell you”, she said. “She only stands together with the donors and special interests who’ve bankrolled her entire life”, he wrote. She leaned heavily on her “stronger together” campaign theme, invoking her 1996 book “It Takes a Village”.
“They haven’t considered the perspective of minorities”, said Kenneth Williams, a black Clinton delegate from Texas.
Imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis. “They know we’ve got to unite and stop Trump”.
“Our country’s motto is E Pluribus Unum, out of many we are one”.
CNN led all cable networks Thursday night, with 7.5 million tuning in to watch Clinton’s speech in the 10:00 pm hour.
Clinton said it would be her “primary mission” to create more opportunities and more good jobs with rising wages, and to confront stark choices in battling determined enemies and “threats and turbulence” around the world and at home. This is who she is. Reporter: But inside that convention hall, she had another fight on her hands.
In contrast, Hillary Clinton’s speech was not powerful, it was not soaring, it was not inspirational.
“Now I’ve never hosted a reality TV show, but I know the true mark of a successful businessman is not the number of times you say ‘you’re fired, ‘ ” Hickenlooper said, riffing off an attack that’s been used all week at the Democratic National Convention.
Throughout the convention, Democrats tried to convey the stakes of the election not only to Sanders backers but Republicans concerned about Trump’s bombastic tone and foreign policy positions.
Referencing the courage of the Founding Fathers in standing up to a king, she said, “America is once again at a moment of reckoning”.
“A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons,”she declared”.
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Clinton showed in her speech such an easy comfort level with all the aspects of leadership that the presidency requires that it’s puzzling why it took so long for a woman to break through, and that it isn’t just any woman, it’s the wife of a former president.
