Clinton's former rivals to her skeptics: Get over it — we did
Clinton's former rivals to her skeptics: Get over it — we did
Andrew Romano July 28, 2016
PHILADELPHIA — How do you solve a problem like Hillary?
With Bernie Sanders packing his bags for Burlington, and the party’s presidential nomination finally, firmly settled (even if the last few Sanders stragglers protesting in the press tent might disagree) the attention of the Democratic National Convention turned Wednesday to the unenviable task of trying to persuade the American people to vote for a nominee whom 55 percent of them don’t like and 68 percent of them don’t trust — and who is actually trailing Donald Trump in the polls right now.
Monday and Tuesday’s marquee speakers did their darnedest. Michelle Obama presented a Mother-in-Chief’s case for Clinton. It got rave reviews. Bill Clinton’s speech was “part grandfatherly musings, part nostalgic love story, part family history, part political memoir” — the kind of testimony that only a husband (who also happens to be the greatest political talent of his generation) could deliver.
But on Wednesday night, the DNC took it up a notch, trotting out four of the biggest names in American politics — back to back — to vouch for Clinton: former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg. vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine. Vice President Joe Biden. President Obama. And all of them, to one degree or another, had the same message for the millions of Hillary skeptics watching at home:
Get over it. We did.
“Hillary’s got her share of critics,” Obama said. “She has been caricatured by the right and by some on the left. She has been accused of everything you can imagine and some things that you cannot. But she knows that’s what happens when you’re under a microscope for 40 years.”
“That’s what happens why you try,” he continued. “That’s what happens when you’re the kind of citizen Teddy Roosevelt once described [as] someone ‘who is actually in the arena.’
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Andrew Romano July 28, 2016
PHILADELPHIA — How do you solve a problem like Hillary?
With Bernie Sanders packing his bags for Burlington, and the party’s presidential nomination finally, firmly settled (even if the last few Sanders stragglers protesting in the press tent might disagree) the attention of the Democratic National Convention turned Wednesday to the unenviable task of trying to persuade the American people to vote for a nominee whom 55 percent of them don’t like and 68 percent of them don’t trust — and who is actually trailing Donald Trump in the polls right now.
Monday and Tuesday’s marquee speakers did their darnedest. Michelle Obama presented a Mother-in-Chief’s case for Clinton. It got rave reviews. Bill Clinton’s speech was “part grandfatherly musings, part nostalgic love story, part family history, part political memoir” — the kind of testimony that only a husband (who also happens to be the greatest political talent of his generation) could deliver.
But on Wednesday night, the DNC took it up a notch, trotting out four of the biggest names in American politics — back to back — to vouch for Clinton: former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg. vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine. Vice President Joe Biden. President Obama. And all of them, to one degree or another, had the same message for the millions of Hillary skeptics watching at home:
Get over it. We did.
“Hillary’s got her share of critics,” Obama said. “She has been caricatured by the right and by some on the left. She has been accused of everything you can imagine and some things that you cannot. But she knows that’s what happens when you’re under a microscope for 40 years.”
“That’s what happens why you try,” he continued. “That’s what happens when you’re the kind of citizen Teddy Roosevelt once described [as] someone ‘who is actually in the arena.’
READ MORE: https://www.yahoo.com/news/clintons-former...
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