Hillary is often criticized for having no simple catchphrase, no overriding theme. In many ways that's never been a problem for me.
I mean she tells you what she will do for her constituents.
South Carolina showed last night that some folks appreciate pragmatism to making promises you can't keep.
But as for an overarching theme, I think something is forming.
She gave a very passionate victory speech last night. She even led the audience to silence for a few minutes in talking about the mothers of victims of police violence.
That takes confidence and mastery to let the audience go silent like that.
She also declared that 'America has always been great but it's time to make America whole again.'
This was Jon Favreau, the Obama 2008 speechwriter who had such a low estimation of Hillary then but came to change his mind.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/26/why-electing-hillary-in-16-is-more-important-than-electing-obama-in-08.html
Think about that! An Obama 2008 alumni-particularly Favreau who made a notorious gesture of his disdain for Hil in 2008-coming to say that electing her in 2016 is more important than the election of Obama in 2008.
Eric Dyson made lots of waves when he argued that Hillary would do more for black folks than Obama was able to do.
https://newrepublic.com/article/124391/yes-she-can
This is the primary of Trump. Even his opponents are picking up the Trump style. Marco Rubio is now trying to out Trump Trump which I think will be a losing proposition for him but I digress.
As Favreau argues even Bernie while not selling xeonphobia is still yet another ranting male voice who is about dividing the country rather than bring it together.
Hillary has been talking a lot about 'love and kindness' lately.
"The "love and kindness" line @HillaryClinton used tonight isn't just a line. Read this @rubycramer profile. http://bzfd.it/1TKoUAZ"
https://twitter.com/JamilSmith/status/703750124858695680
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/hillary-clinton-wants-to-talk-to-you-about-love-and-kindness#.pd5Z4R8q5P
The country needs some love and kindness right now with so much hate and divisiveness. Bernie's speech last night was more Trumpian than about bringing us together as a nation and healing our divides:
"That South Carolina Democratic primary? Bernie Sanders made no mention of the outcome during a rally in Rochester, Minnesota, Saturday night.
"The rally was his first public appearance after the polls closed in South Carolina. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won decisively in the first Democratic primary in the South, with the race called for her almost immediately after the polls closed at 7 p.m. So Sanders opted not to mention the results at all in Minnesota, instead ticking off the major points of his policy platform on healthcare, economic inequality, and free tuition at public universities."
"But the Vermont senator did include some digs at Clinton and real estate mogul Donald Trump. Clinton came first. He dinged her on the fact that she had an active super PAC working for her while Sanders did not. Then he attacked the Democratic front-runner for refusing to release the transcripts of her private speeches to major banks."
"Secretary Clinton gave some speeches to Goldman Sachs for $225,000 a piece. Now, I think if you get $225,000 dollars for a speech, it must be a really excellent speech and therefore you should be really proud to release the transcript of that speech," Sanders said.
"Then the Vermont senator pivoted to his vote on the Iraq war and contrasted it to Clinton's position."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/02/bernie-sanders-south-carolina-speech-219921#ixzz41STTqGqG
So much about politics is timing. I feel like Bernie is running on 2008 themes more than 2016.
In his own way Marco Rubio is trying this too-running on a 2008 theme. He wants to be the Republican Obama, the Cuban Obama for a party that is about Obama hatred.
John McCain had this same problem in 2008. He was running on 'Don't cut and run in Iraq'-Bush's 2004 theme-when the real issue was the financial crisis.
Bernie is trying to do what Obama did to HRC in 2008 in 2016 and trying to highlight the same Iraq vote. Sorry, but there is a lot of water under the bridge since.
So the nation needs love and kindness now. Or to put it in Tom Brown's terms: the nation needs some level of sanity back. I argue Hillary is the only way to get there.
In the year of Trumpism-of fulminating, screaming, divisive male rhetoric, we need a sane woman in the job.
I mean she tells you what she will do for her constituents.
South Carolina showed last night that some folks appreciate pragmatism to making promises you can't keep.
But as for an overarching theme, I think something is forming.
She gave a very passionate victory speech last night. She even led the audience to silence for a few minutes in talking about the mothers of victims of police violence.
That takes confidence and mastery to let the audience go silent like that.
She also declared that 'America has always been great but it's time to make America whole again.'
This was Jon Favreau, the Obama 2008 speechwriter who had such a low estimation of Hillary then but came to change his mind.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/26/why-electing-hillary-in-16-is-more-important-than-electing-obama-in-08.html
Think about that! An Obama 2008 alumni-particularly Favreau who made a notorious gesture of his disdain for Hil in 2008-coming to say that electing her in 2016 is more important than the election of Obama in 2008.
Eric Dyson made lots of waves when he argued that Hillary would do more for black folks than Obama was able to do.
https://newrepublic.com/article/124391/yes-she-can
This is the primary of Trump. Even his opponents are picking up the Trump style. Marco Rubio is now trying to out Trump Trump which I think will be a losing proposition for him but I digress.
As Favreau argues even Bernie while not selling xeonphobia is still yet another ranting male voice who is about dividing the country rather than bring it together.
Hillary has been talking a lot about 'love and kindness' lately.
"The "love and kindness" line @HillaryClinton used tonight isn't just a line. Read this @rubycramer profile. http://bzfd.it/1TKoUAZ"
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/hillary-clinton-wants-to-talk-to-you-about-love-and-kindness#.pd5Z4R8q5P
The country needs some love and kindness right now with so much hate and divisiveness. Bernie's speech last night was more Trumpian than about bringing us together as a nation and healing our divides:
"That South Carolina Democratic primary? Bernie Sanders made no mention of the outcome during a rally in Rochester, Minnesota, Saturday night.
"The rally was his first public appearance after the polls closed in South Carolina. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won decisively in the first Democratic primary in the South, with the race called for her almost immediately after the polls closed at 7 p.m. So Sanders opted not to mention the results at all in Minnesota, instead ticking off the major points of his policy platform on healthcare, economic inequality, and free tuition at public universities."
"But the Vermont senator did include some digs at Clinton and real estate mogul Donald Trump. Clinton came first. He dinged her on the fact that she had an active super PAC working for her while Sanders did not. Then he attacked the Democratic front-runner for refusing to release the transcripts of her private speeches to major banks."
"Secretary Clinton gave some speeches to Goldman Sachs for $225,000 a piece. Now, I think if you get $225,000 dollars for a speech, it must be a really excellent speech and therefore you should be really proud to release the transcript of that speech," Sanders said.
"Then the Vermont senator pivoted to his vote on the Iraq war and contrasted it to Clinton's position."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/02/bernie-sanders-south-carolina-speech-219921#ixzz41STTqGqG
So much about politics is timing. I feel like Bernie is running on 2008 themes more than 2016.
In his own way Marco Rubio is trying this too-running on a 2008 theme. He wants to be the Republican Obama, the Cuban Obama for a party that is about Obama hatred.
John McCain had this same problem in 2008. He was running on 'Don't cut and run in Iraq'-Bush's 2004 theme-when the real issue was the financial crisis.
Bernie is trying to do what Obama did to HRC in 2008 in 2016 and trying to highlight the same Iraq vote. Sorry, but there is a lot of water under the bridge since.
So the nation needs love and kindness now. Or to put it in Tom Brown's terms: the nation needs some level of sanity back. I argue Hillary is the only way to get there.
In the year of Trumpism-of fulminating, screaming, divisive male rhetoric, we need a sane woman in the job.
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