Bill Clinton’s DNC speech shows how the Democratic Party has changed

But that’s all the time the 42nd president got on Tuesday to address the party he once dominated. If things had been a little different in 2016, he would have approached Democrats after four years as the country’s first First Gentleman. Instead, he got a walk-on part in a party that left him behind as it pulled to the left. A large part of his party now considers Clinton’s versions of welfare, trade and criminal justice as a betrayal and in the #MeToo era recoils of his extramarital affairs.

It was 1984 when Clinton first spoke at a convention to promote a ticket with another female vice presidential candidate – Geraldine Ferraro. Four years later, the then Arkansas government almost torpedoed its own prospects with a windy address that drew ironic cheers when it said the words, “a closure.”

But four years later, the ‘Man from Hope’ returned to win the White House.

The boom and bust cycle of Clinton’s career took a dip after Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton for the 2008 ticket. But in 2012, he made his most effective convention speech yet – long and ad-libbed – and explained in a way that Obama never succeeded why the official deserves a second term.

Roll up

On the second night of the Democratic National Convention, a loud call across all 57 U.S. states and territories called for votes to formally nominate Joe Biden for president, offering glimpses of local cultures, customs and languages ​​along the way. Cow, calamari, and historical figures all had comeos. Above: Democrats in American Samoa.

‘It’s awful. We do not want that. ‘

One of the new daily rituals of President Donald Trump is the tut-tut about coronavirus clusters in countries that well suppressed the first wave of the pandemic. On Monday, he took a shot at New Zealand, which initially wiped out the disease but now has to postpone a general election to put out emerging hotspots.

Kiwi Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern did not take long to respond. “I do not think there is a comparison between the current cluster of New Zealand and the tens of thousands of cases that are seen every day in the United States,” she said.

New Zealand: 73 new cases, 0 deaths

South Korea: 1,101 new cases, 1 death

Australia: 2,060 new cases, 107 deaths

Italy: 3,410 new cases, 191 deaths

United Kingdom: 7,672 new cases, 73 deaths

Germany: 8,192 new cases, 33 deaths

France: 17,184 new cases, 107 deaths

United States of America: 343,925 new cases, 7,034 deaths

If anything, new outbreaks abroad should be the cause of alarm by the president, who is controlling the world’s fiercest defense against the first wave of the virus.

PS. Reader Gaylene from New Zealand put it this way: You should be lucky to have only nine new cases of CoVid-19. What an idiot to choose NZ to try to create “sh * t” !!!

‘In her head’

We thought we’d check what you said about it. Here’s an example of reader feedback – which was almost universally positive – about Obama’s speech.

“As neighbors next door, for the past three and a half years we have witnessed the wreck of the slow movement in the US with dismay and sadness. Last night the heart of America spoke. What a contrast. It will not cure the country’s misery as the anger and fear that many Americans harbor, but those words showed the way the problems are being addressed, “he wrote. Robert from Canada.

“It was honest, serious and back to the basics of living right and doing to others as you would to them to you,” Sandy wrote from Kentucky.

But you can not please everyone. While most praised Obama’s praiseworthy and satisfying tone, Pauline thought the speech would have mentioned Joe Biden’s vice president, Kamala Harris Ginny in North Carolina thought it was a “little too long” – a fault of many great speeches.

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