Posted on 07/28/2016 10:36:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Democratic National Convention's attempt to focus this week on party unity was almost overwhelmed even before the coronation process in Philadelphia got underway.
Wikileaks' massive dump of emails provided the world with a glimpse behind the curtain of the operations at the DNC. Some of the emails revealed a bias against Sen. Bernie Sanders, and several showed that the organization was seeking to influence media outlets to favor her over her opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, head of the DNC, announced that she would resign after the convention, but planned on gaveling in the start of the program. But, after being greeted Monday by boos from people attending her own state's breakfast, Wasserman Schultz decided not to take on a public role during the convention.
Amid such a lack of party unity, convention organizers must have welcomed first lady Michelle Obama's speech Monday night. Poised, passionate and articulate, she offered a full-throated endorsement of Clinton. "I am here tonight," she said, "because in this election there is only one person who I trust with that responsibility, only one person who I believe is truly qualified to be president of the United States, and that is our friend Hillary Clinton ... she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life."
In an attempt to contrast Clinton with Republican nominee Donald Trump, the first lady noted, "I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase form and fortune for ourselves." How this meshes with the Clintons' net worth of $45 million (according to Forbes) built over a lifetime of public service is perplexing.
Explainer-in-Chief Bill Clinton spoke Tuesday night in an effort to recast and redefine his wife. He began his speech looking back 45 years: "In the spring of 1971, I met a girl." Yes, the girl" was Hillary Rodham. Bill Clinton then listed her activities and affiliations over the years -- a listing that one might expect to find on Wikipedia more than in a testimony to her humanness and warmth from her husband.
"For this time," he said, "Hillary is uniquely qualified to seize the opportunities and reduce the risks we face. And she is still the best darn change-maker I have ever known ... Hillary will make us stronger together. You know it because she's spent a lifetime doing it."
The former president's reintroduction of his wife to the nation was masterful, and might explain how he has raked in more than $100 million in speaker fees, (one in 2013 for a publishing company in Lagos, Nigeria, where he was paid $700,000) since leaving office, but it might not have been masterful enough to recast Hillary's public persona created over decades in the public eye.
According to a CNN/ORC poll released Monday, 68 percent of likely voters say Hillary Clinton is neither honest nor trustworthy, (1,001 adults, July 22-24, +/- 3 points).
Trump is believed to be honest and trustworthy by 43 percent with only 30 percent believing Clinton is honest and trustworthy. Clinton's unfavorable ratings are 55 percent versus 39 percent favorable, worse than Trump's at 43 percent favorable, 52 percent unfavorable.
While Hillary Clinton's pronouncement Tuesday night that "I can't believe we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet," might be true, even House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) acknowledged the limits this might have in garnering votes. On Tuesday, Pelosi told Politico, "I don't think that any woman should be asked to vote for someone because she's a woman, and that -- because the candidate is a woman."
In a thinly veiled attempt to provide the former senator from New York with campaign advice, Pelosi continued, "When I was running for leadership, the last thing I would say to my whips [was], 'Do not ever say to anybody it's time for us to have a woman in the leadership, because that's the least important selling point.'"
She continued, "In terms of Hillary Clinton and this election, I think that the attitude that ... you should vote for her because she's a woman and you're a woman is not a good selling point. And I think that turns some people off."
As the week plays out, and the convention plays on, it will be interesting to see if President Obama can provide Clinton's campaign with the enthusiasm and excitement it will need to carry his administration to a third term, or if Clinton can effectively recast herself during her acceptance speech Thursday night.
Perhaps because she has spent decades in the public eye, many people think they know her well. That well-documented record could make her latest goal the most challenging one she has faced -- changing people's understanding and beliefs about who is Hillary Clinton.
Time for the Fraud’s “baton” recipient to re-launch her campaign again before the convention ends?
She’s been re-casted more times than a 90 year old fishing rod.
They’re trying to fit her into a brand she can’t pull off
I’d like to recast her into shark infested waters.
Hillary’s library do you think it will a continuance of that silly ass bridge to nowhere on the other side that is bills library?
That whole article reads like an sympathetic advertisement of what the dnc (Dear Nominate Clinton) WANTS publicized.
No part of it is valid.
Hillary Clinton took the Senate floor and held up a New York Post with a headline saying Bush Knew. The experiment worked. She proved that as long as her husband is in East Timor she’s got the political instincts of an Acapulco cliff diver at low tide.
- Argus Hamilton, May 22
Was searching for this and found it in this old Clinton joke thread;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/687737/posts
8 minutes of VIDEO DYNAMITE from Dick Morris who was on the DARK SIDE with the Clintons during their rise. Line by line, Dick DISMANTLES Bill Clinton’s fawning and fraudulent DNC Wednesday speech in support of the serial liar to whom he is wed.
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE POWER AND MONEY!!!
Please watch the entire 8 minutes then share the hell out of this thing. THIS CRIME FAMILY MUST NEVER AGAIN INFEST THE WHITE HOUSE!
https://www.facebook.com/dickmorriscom/videos/10154398092154438/
Hillary should be recast to the role she plays: the Bitch of Kosovo, the Whore of Washington, The pervert of Georgetown, The lesbian of Chappaquiddick.
Surprised she hasn’t driven over a bridge with an intern.
Can’t polish a turd.
Tonight look for eye spasms and uncontrollable coughing. I will watch with sound off and try to do do screen grabs for posterity. I can’t stand her screeching like a hyena in heat.
I like this women they’ve been talking about at their convention. I wouldn’t be too unhappy if she became president. But she bares no resemblance to the Hillary Clinton that’s been in the news for 25+ years.
They’re trying to fit her into a LIE she CAN pull off
This one stays fresh, so it always shines.
I truly wish that Republicans would understand this and combat it for what it is. Then Republicans could fight it effectively with knowledge about what it is. They need to break up the beliefs about the candidates as to what tremendously sainted and wonderful people they are. If we outright attack them in forceful "unloving" ways, even with truth, to the dems we are the nasty culprits for assaulting their near God like sainted candidates.
We should find a ways of breaking their bubbles by telling the truth about the candidates non saintliness, but in the most nicest ways possible, as though it hurts us to even think such things, but though it hurts we have to reveal the truth for the good of the Nation, maybe even with tears. This even the most die heart leftist might hear. They have been hypnotized and brain washed and this approach is the only way to break through the programming.
Even many of the undecided are also influenced by the put on saintliness of the leftist. The facts of their terribly oppositeness of saintliness is the Achilles heel and it is time to effectively shoot it with arrows of loving truth.
I was thinking of if they literally recast her.
“The role of Hillary Clinton will now be played by Dan Aykroyd.”
To paraphrase one of “their” heroes...
When fascism comes to America, it’ll be wearing a pants suit...
Odd, I never though Pelosi was capable of saying *anything* that I can agree with.
Qualifications for the presidency reside in the head, not the gonads. And Hillary has not a single qualification in her head for, well, anything.
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