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Democratic convention live: Bill Clinton speaks after Hillary formally nominated Democratic convention live: Bill Clinton calls Hillary 'best darn change-maker I know'
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Clinton reveals he took a couple days off to watch all six police academy movies back-to-back. Here’s Alicia Keys, who begins with Superwoman:
Fact check: when did Police Academy six come out? I dedicate this song to the mothers of the movement and to all mothers who have lost their children to senseless violence.
Then Clinton lost a gubernatorial election. She said go back to work. They went back to work. And in 1982 he became the first govenor in Arkansas history to be elected, defeated, elected.
My experience has been, it’s a pretty good thing to follow her advice.
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By 1979, Clinton was the nation’s youngest governor. He asked Hillary (we’re going to call her that for clarity’s sake?) to develop a health care program for rural and remote areas.
“It wasn’t the only big thing that happened that spring...we found out that we were going to be parents. On February 27, 1980, 15 minutes after he got home from the national governor’s conference in Washington, Hillary Clinton’s water broke. Chelsea was born just before midnight.
It was the happiest moment in my life. A miracle for me because my father died before I was born. And the absolute conviction that my daughter had the best mother in the whole world.
Like it or loath it, it's safe to say this first spouse speech is not plagiarised. Intense, and sometimes awkwardly, personal.
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Rodham mentioned she liked a house. He bought the house and told her she had to marry him then. “The third time was a charm.” They were married 11 October 1975. “I married my best friend.” Here’s a quickie roundup of reaction from non-Democrats to Bill Clinton’s speech:
I was still in awe at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was, and I really hoped that her choosing me... was a decision she would never regret. Steve Schmidt just said Bill Clinton's speech was a "wedding toast gone bad."
3.25am BST True to form, Bill Clinton just sent the DNC a $350,000 bill for that speech.#DNCinPHL
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Clinton: “I was still trying to get her to marry me. The second time I tried a different tack. I said, I really want you to marry me, but you shouldn’t do it. 04:04
She said, that isn’t much of a sales pitch. Streep pitches Clinton as historic figure
I said, I know but it’s true. And it was true.” Streep asks of Clinton, “How does she do it? Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts... where do they find that strength?”
Because of the young Democrats our age, Clinton explained to her, none of them “is as good as you are at actually doing things.” He said she should go home to run for office. Then she places Clinton in some incredible company: Parks, Chisholm, Tubman, Ride, O’Connor...
He finally got her to come to Arkansas. The people at the law school were so impressed they offered her a teaching position. She moved. And she was a stranger. It was more rural and conservative than what she knew. “They have forged new paths so that others can follow them. Men and women. Generation after generation. That’s Hillary. That’s America.”
3.22am BST Streep says, “you people have made history.”
03:22 The crowd cheers, liking the idea.
Clinton continues. “Then she went down to south Texas.” “And you’re going to make history again in November!” (cheers) “Because Hillary Clinton will be our first woman president (big cheers) and she’ll be a great president. She’ll be the first, but she won’t be the last.”
The Texas delegation is really excited about the shout-out. Now Streep suddenly is gone – she somehow slipped away without a huge big applause line – is she coming back? Hard to tell, we’re in the middle of another video.
Rodham registered Mexican-American voters. “Then in our last year of law school, Hillary kept up this work. She went to South Carolina to see why so many African American boys were being jailed as adults. 4.00am BST
Always makin’ things better. 04:00
Meanwhile, let’s get back to business. I was trying to convince her to marry me. I first proposed to her on a trip to Great Britain [on Ennerdale Water]... I asked her to marry me and she said I can’t. “We got some fight left in us, don’t we?” Streep begins. She’s about to push Alicia Keys out of prime time.
I went home to law school. Hillary moved to Massachusetts to keep working on children’s issues. What does it take to be the first female anything?” she asks. “It takes grit and it takes grace.”
3.19am BST She names the woman soldier who served disguised as a man in Washington’s army, Jack -a-Roe style. When she took a blast in battle she was afraid to reveal her secret. So she took out a penknife, took out the musket ball and sewed herself up again.
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Clinton remembers meeting Rodham’s crotchety, conservative father. Her mother was different, he recalls. She was more liberal. “Knowing her was one of the greatest gifts Hillary ever gave me.” 03:58
Clinton describes Rodham’s evolution of her social conscience. The civil rights movement, he says, convinced her to become a Democrat. He talks about Rodham’s summer internship interviewing workers in migrant camps for senator Walter Mondale’s subcommittee. The video is a medley of celebrity and recording artist appearances. At the end they turn into Hollywood squares and then there are about a hundred of them and it turns into an American flag.
She got so involved with children’s issues that she actually took an extra year in law school ... working to determine what more could be done for children. Here now is Meryl Streep, wearing an amazing flag shirt.
Hillary opened my eyes to a whole new world of public service by private citizens. 3.56am BST
Bill Clinton sounds like he's trying to make America fall in love with his wife the same way he did. 03:56
The video is people singing Clinton’s campaign song, Fight Song by Rachel Platten.
Oh look, there’s Gloria Steinem: “I’ve still got a lotta fight left in me,” she sings that line.
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Elizabeth Banks is back: “How do you get the job of following Bill Clinton?”
She fundraises off the spot on the speech. Every dollar counts.
“Coming up: some incredible women. Alicia Keys, Meryl Streep... and a few surprises.”
Banks says she has a surprise. She has made a video. Here’s the video.
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Clinton now is riffing on the primary election without the Teleprompter. He went to West Virginia:
To look those coal miners in the eye because Hillary sent me to tell you that .. if she wins, she is coming back for you to take you on a ride to America’s future
Here’s the big finish:
HIllary will make us stronger together. You know it, because she spent a lifetime doing it. I hope you will do it. I hope you will elect her. Those of us who have more yesterdays than tomorrows tend to think more about our children and grandchildren.”
Then he says something like if you elect her, she will, and he walks away.
The whole end was unscripted, and it really worked in the hall.
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Clinton:
If you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade, a real change-maker represents a real threat.
So your only option is to create a cartoon, and run against the cartoon...
Life in the real world is complicated...
Then he returns to the construct of “the real one” versus the made-up version:
Good for you, because earlier today, you nominated the real one.
The line lands with unexpected force. it brings the crowd to their feet. They are clapping and they chant Hillary! Hillary!
More Clinton, winding to a finish:
I have lived a long full and blessed life. It really took off when I met and fell in love with that girl in the spring in 1971.
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For this time, Hillary is uniquely qualified.. and she is still the best darn changemaker I have ever nown.
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Clinton asks:
“How does this square with the things that you heard at the Republican convention?”
The answer draws a laugh and cheers:
“You can’t. One is real. And the other is made up. You just have to decide which is which, my fellow Americans.”
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Clinton lists what he says are Clinton’s accomplishments as secretary of state:
She flew overnight from Cambodia to the Middle East to get a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in Gaza.
She backed Obama’s decision to go after Osama bin Laden.
She launched a team to fight terrorism online.
She put climate change at the center of our foreign policy.
She stood up for women’s rights and LGBT rights around the world.
She tripled the number of people with Aids whose lives are being saved without it costing any more.
She boosted the approval rating of the United States by 20 points during her time in office.
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Clinton describes standing in line with Rodham to register for classes: Now on to the secretary of state years. Clinton mentions Clinton losing to Obama, continuing:
I thought I was doing pretty well, until we got to the front of the line and the registrar looked up and said Bill, what are you doing here, you registered this morning?.. She worked for his election hard. But she hesitated to say yes when he asked her to join his cabinet, because she so loved being the senator from New York. But like me in a different context, he had to keep asking.
He says he asked her on a walk. 3.42am BST
We’ve been walking and talking, laughing together, ever since. We’ve done it in good times and bad, through joy and heartbreak. We cried together this morning” at a friend’s death. 03:42
We built up a lifetime of memories. Now Bill Clinton is up to the senate years. “She became the first senator ever from new York to sit on the armed services committee.” He rattles off some accomplishments. It does not loo like he is reading from the Teleprompter. It’s moving anyway. Now it stops moving, because Clinton takes an ad-lib swipe at Trump, not by name:
3.14am BST Nobody who has dealt with the men and the women in the military believes they are a disaster. They are a national treasure.
03:14 Lots of applause.
Move the scene to the law library. Rodham catches Clinton staring. She walks over and says: 3.40am BST
Look, if you’re going to keep staring at me, and now I’m staring back, we at least ought to know each other’s names. I’m Hillary Rodham, who are you? 03:40
I was so impressed and surprised, that whether you believe it or not, that momentarily, I was speechless. Clinton says that as the Clintons navigated public life, “real life goes on.” And he contributes a pretty funny scene from Chelsea Clinton’s dorm room, moving into Stanford:
3.12am BST There I was in a trance, staring out the window, trying not to cry. And there Hillary was on her hands and knees, desperately looking for one more drawer to put that liner paper in.
03:12 Chelsea gently told them it was time to vamoose.
Wow they love Bill Clinton. There he is. Skinny as a rail. Tasteful dark suit and electric blue tie. Is that the Charlie’s Angels theme? Some instrumental disco. 3.39am BST
Clinton kind of jogs over to the lectern. But the crowd is not going to let him start. All those sticklike signs make the crowd look huge and very dynamic. It’s rather disorienting. 03:39
He says thank you a bunch of times. Then he starts. Clinton goes in for a pretty easy big cheer, mentioning Michelle Obama, who rattled the rafters in here last night.
In the spring of 1971 I met a girl. The first time I saw her, we were appropriately enough in a class on political and civil rights. She had big blond hair. Big glasses. She wore no makeup. And this sense of strength. It works! They cheer.
After this class I followed her out, intending to introduce myself. I got close enough to touch her back, but I couldn’t do it... I might be starting something I couldn’t stop. 3.38am BST
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3.08am BST Clinton repeats the line about Hillary Clinton being a changemaker.
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All the delegates, and a lot of the crowd, have tall narrow white signs on sticks they are getting ready to wave like crazy. They say “America.” 03:37
The tribute video to Bill Clinton is still running. He just might win this election. Hillary Clinton is tweeting out key lines from Bill Clinton’s speech:
What song will he come out to? Any bets? Fleetwood Mac? “Hillary opened my eyes to a whole new world of public service.” —@BillClinton https://t.co/wa9TvdvKIy
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Clinton says that Arkansas went from one of the nation’s worst in education to one of most improved. He credits Hillary Clinton.
This by the way is all off the Teleprompter, although with a fair bit of filigree.
“Next thing you know, I’m being dragged around to all these pre-school graduations... watching these poor parents with tears in their eyes because they never thought they’d be able to help their kids learn.”
“She did all those while being a full-time mother while enjoying her life.”
Clinton delivers a larger applause line: “She’s the best darn change-maker I’ve ever met in my life.”
He says this is a “take-home point from this convention”
If you believe making change from the bottom up... speeches like this are fun. Actually doing the work is fun. People say we need change. She’s been around a long time. She sure has. And she’s sure been worth every single minute she put in to making things better.”
Clinton then describes every dinner and lunch conversation and walk they have as a time she prefers to spend describing how to “move the ball forward.” Fun times.