He’s got that southern storyteller thang goin on. The “fat”, I think, moved the story together at a deliberate pace. Also, it allowed him basically to give Hillary’s very impressive CV without sounding like a bunch of bullet points.
I leave the speech with a significantly more positive impression of Hillary than I went into it with.
Yeah the first X hrs were a bit resume reading, he got it going at the end though.
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Is Meryl Streep auditioning to play Hillary in the movie? Why do I think she wants her elected because it will be a meatier role?
Did anyone else see a tremor in his fingers?
Yeah they were pretty wobbly
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I saw it and it made me sad.
He addresses it here.
I missed it. Was it that bad? It couldn’t have been more than an hour. Was it just poorly delivered or what? I thought Bill would knock one out of the park for Hilary.
I think it was a shade over 40mins. In my opinion the beginning was a bit slow , for going at the end and delivered.
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Is is too much trouble to scroll up and read what we wrote?
I only caught
I only caught the last 10-15 minutes of Bill’s speech but I thought it was a home run. Maybe the long beginning influenced the dynamic ending.
It was excellent. Bill never says anything without there being a reason, and he looped the latter part of the speech back to the beginning masterfully.
LOL, I love that “Was it that bad?” No, it wasn’t “that” bad, or bad at all. It was excellent. He spoke for 35 minutes, which for a former president and current spouse of the nominee seems about right to me, especially when he had so many accomplishments to run through. The woman’s spent a lot of years building an astonishing CV.
I’m not much of a HRC fan myself–my politics are closer to Bernie’s, and I voted for him in the primaries. But like LHoD I was glad for the reminder of her achievements and the things that matter most to her.* Bill did himself and his wife proud. (Weaker in voice he may be, but the guy still knows how to hold a room!)
And it didn’t escape me that he used the words “liberal” and “progressive” during that speech. Those words have been the Democrats’ “Voldemort / He Who Shall Not Be Named” since at least 1988. Damn glad to have them uttered and owned by my party again.
Giving speeches is Bill’s second favorite thing in the whole wide world.
If you remember all of the jokes about Hillary’s cankles and Monica Lewinsky being chubby, Bill Clinton has always like “the fat”
I guess “change maker” was the best description he could think of. I think it’s kind of clunky.
It sounds like she’d make an awesome cashier.
I wasn’t listening closely, but I heard him take a jab at Trump (other than the very obvious “making shit up”) when he said that Hillary helped disabled people, rather than making fun of them.
Any others?