I thought she did a good job last night. It was heavy on the wonk side and not soaring rhetoric, but that’s what Ms. Clinton is known for and if she’d tried to emulate someone else’s style, it would have fallen flat.
She left it to others to do the “this is the Hillary Clinton I know,” including a video with a voice-of-God narration from Morgan Freeman and a warm and touching introduction from her daughter Chelsea. By the time we got around to the actual speech, though, I was done with the warm fuzzies and wanted to hear what she was planning and how she was hoping to get it done, and she did fine with it.
There was no escaping the historical context: the first woman nominated by a major party for president. But she made it seem like it was the most natural thing in the world, and that was the best part of it all.
I would like to have heard her say that she actually accepted the nomination; I don’t recall her saying that. All in all I’m with her!
About midway through the speech.
Probably the air conditioning running here at the camper; this thing is niosy. I am not currently in Tx. and we are ruffing it communication wise. Believe it or not we are using rabbit ears for the tv and the picture comes and goes when you walk around.
She did and the applause was deafening. Maybe that’s why you missed it. Or maybe you took a bathroom break as I did just before Mr. Khan spoke. Bad timing.
The nomination of a woman was a long time coming.