I think she actually covered a great deal of policy in her speech. Definitely outside the norm for what an acceptance speech usually holds. She talked about universal healthcare, paid family leave, infrastructure and job creation bill in first 100 days, gun control, refuting TPP, Citizens United (either overturning or constitutional amendment), a strategy for dealing with ISIL, and a lot more.
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I would actually refute Nicole Wallace on that point. She called John McCain a patriot that deserves our respect. Trump still hasnāt apologized for saying he was a loser for getting captured.
But then again, if I were a betting man, my bet would be that Wallace ends up either voting for Hillary or not voting at all again. And I am leaning to, she votes for Hillary and just doesnāt tell anyone.
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She was very very good on policy goals, but light on specifics of procedure aND mechanicsā¦which, btw, I think is fine in context. I just think itās important to push for their speeches to have more HOW in them.
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Not for Hillary. One of the things she gets beat up the most about lately is that she isnāt strong on giving speeches, and prefers to talk about and DO actual policy. Diving deep into wonkishness during an acceptance speech would have been a horrible choice.
Keep in mind, Trump did not speak about a single policy issue in his speech. Hillary listed off dozens. He doesnāt have a single white paper up on his websiteā¦hers has tons. Iāve never spoken to anyone who says Hillary is too light on policy, even those that donāt agree with her. The criticism is usually the other wayā¦Hillary is TOO heavy on policy.
Overall, I think she did a fantastic job, and bravo to the everyone who put on an incredible four day convention.
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I liked the section on her personal history best. You could see her real passion about childrenās welfare issues. Also, the examples she gave about details mattering were spot on.
For Trump, there are no details, except for the shade of golds he uses in his tacky residences. For Hillary, life is a book full of details, some wonderful, some awful, but all of them mattering.
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That would be why I mentioned context making it fine and in a previous post mentioned that itās a thing for me personally. Relax manā¦we had it out but thereās no grudge here. We on the same team.
Or a manā¦ called Hawk.
Avery Brooks couldāve rocked the hell outta that suit (he often wears white at conventions, too).
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Best comment Iāve read on Hillaryās outfit tonight:
Clintonās white garb reflects her transformation into an even more
powerful wizard, a la Gandalf.
ā Jeffrey Young July 29, 2016
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During this convention we took back patriotism and faith, reminding everyone that they do NOT mean jingoism and bigotry. Quite an incredible feat
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More like 4-0. We crushed then every single night. Many of their own pundits said so. We hung then with their own words, and we co-opted some of their own language.
Total rout.
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Watched on MSNBC here on West Coat. The default poetry vs prose those blather yammering heads got into made me want to throw something at the TV. What f-ing speech did they watch? The sight of flag waving patriotic enthusiastic American liberals must have gotten cluster f-ed in their heads with the Hilary is so unpopular meme that they just could not process the moment- lookinā at you Tweety and Chuckyā¦ And Nicole Wallace was trolely and pathetic. She was correct. BHO cleaved Orange Hitler from all decency, hope and conservatism itself, but HRC kicked ass right on through that trash.
And I just love love loved the mournful mewlings of the Cons with their āoh shit, they;re stealing all our best stuffā. No you ConTards. Your Hate Porn media troglodytes gave it to us, Gave. It. To. Us.
Best part: Been waiting so long for Left wing America to stand up with the Constitution in one hand and greater, nobler parts of our history in the other and say; " We can do this. Because weāve done it before. We know what is looks like and and can still do it. That can do Americanism is who we are and itās well worth preserving. Because, you see, we are the conservatives. The real conservatives. The real American patriots".
Super best part, HRC seemed 100% in charge. Smart. Strong. In command. And 1000% Presidential.
Will feel so proud when I see her deliver a State of the Union speech. 1000% Presidential.
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His supporters Love Trumpās hateā¦but it is (and has been) my opinion that āthe better angels of our natureā will ātrumpā his bigotry and hatred. Vote Blue!
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Joining a party is merely a way to say these people by and large share my values. It does not bind you to always choose the partyās candidate.
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Best tweet of the night!
https://twitter.com/beardedstoner/status/758865737809211392?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
Not just the names we know, too. That parade of lesser known mayors of small towns, NYC detectives who love HRC for her help for NYC after 9/11, the ālittle peopleā who came forward to tell us all for the first time about the help she had given them, real help were beautiful to watch. And believe me, one of her great lines was, āIāve spent my life in public service. The service part is somewhat known, but Iāve never done much with the public part.ā (or words to that effect)
The parade of family photos of her with the people she materially helped were the very opposite of photo opsā¦
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Far and away,the best speech of the convention. She was confident, poised and clearly showed the world that she belonged on that stage. Without relying on Obama she pointed her own way to the future for the USA by showing the new parry platform to be as American as apple pie: āwe wrote it together, letās do it togetherā
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Pshaw. The Dems have a point, the Cons do not. It wasnāt 4-0 or 99 Bajillion to zero. It wasnāt even 1-0. It was a joke I made. There was no scoring system involved.
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C-SPAN is preferable to MSNBC: no commercials, no Brian Williams, no half baked bullshit.
Thatās true! Ian McKellan couldāve pulled off that look. Especially with either a fedora (not a @#%!ing trilby) or a panama hat.
And now I feel terribly ashamed. You know who we forgot who could totally pull off the white suit? Ricardo Montalban.
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