After Bill Clinton's long narrative tribute to his wife last night, Republican operative Nicole Wallace allowed that while the second half of the speech was effective, the first 25 minutes "meandered."
Nope. The speech was long, it was narrative, it was discursive...you may or may not have been engaged or sympathetic. But it was the opposite of meandering. It was methodically building a case, fleshing out a set of claims Hillary Clinton has been reiterating over and over so that they feel like boilerplate.
The claims: She 's been committed to children's welfare specifically and improving people's lives in concrete ways generally all her life. She is practical and analytical and gets things done. She is a joiner, a leader and a changemaker.
Toward the end, contrasting "the real Hillary" with the imaginary one created by her enemies Bill said, "The real one had done more positive change-making before she was 30 than many public officials do in a lifetime in office." In those "meandering" first 25 minutes, he had made that case in detail, so it was hard not to agree. Leaving out the humanizing, sanitized, personal remembrances, here are the resume points:
Nope. The speech was long, it was narrative, it was discursive...you may or may not have been engaged or sympathetic. But it was the opposite of meandering. It was methodically building a case, fleshing out a set of claims Hillary Clinton has been reiterating over and over so that they feel like boilerplate.
The claims: She 's been committed to children's welfare specifically and improving people's lives in concrete ways generally all her life. She is practical and analytical and gets things done. She is a joiner, a leader and a changemaker.
Toward the end, contrasting "the real Hillary" with the imaginary one created by her enemies Bill said, "The real one had done more positive change-making before she was 30 than many public officials do in a lifetime in office." In those "meandering" first 25 minutes, he had made that case in detail, so it was hard not to agree. Leaving out the humanizing, sanitized, personal remembrances, here are the resume points:
