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Hillary's Victory Speech: The Home Stretch

Hillary is beaming, on stage with Bill and Chelsea.

"Thank You New York. Today you proved once again, there's no place like home."

..."New Yorkers, you've always had my back, and I've tried to have yours."

Hillary Clinton won big in New York -- 59.2% as of now to 40.8% for Bernie. She even won Brooklyn.

"To those who supported Sanders, I believe there is more that unites us than divides us"

She says the race is in the home stretch. "This campaign is the only one, Democrat or Republican, to win more than 10 million votes." [More...]

She's going to CT, Delaware, Rhode Island....because "there are more voices to be heard." She says more than 1.1 million people have contributed to her campaign, most with less than $100.00.

It's not enough to describe problems, you have to say how you will solve them.

She addresses issues from Flint and water to climate change to systemic racism. Invest in communities of color Finally pass comprehensive immigration reform. And once and for all, equal pay for women." Civil rights, voting rights (...everybody's rights). "These are NY values and American values."

She says Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are pushing an agenda that is both "divisive and dangerous."

We should "lift each other up, not tear each other down." No walls. Diversity and determination.

The only thing I didn't like: when she veers off into one person's story, calling him by his first name. I roll my eyes whenever any candidate does it. It's right up there with rattling off statistics ans a turn-off.

Her story about Mikey's ice cream shoppe was a little different because it involved her -- she stopped for a ice cream sundae and was really enjoying it when a stupid reporter asked her if she had thought about the calorie count. She told him off and kept right on enjoying it. Good for her.

The crowd is chanting "Hillary."

Then she veers into Sandy Hook and a victim's daughter and gun violence. And then the irrelevant pundit with the very grating voice named Gloria came on, so I'm done. Had to click off.

Hillary looks healthy and vibrant. I like her outfit, hair and makeup. She is so energetic. She will trounce Trump in November.

Update: Bernie has flown home to Vermont, saying he's not quitting but he needs a day off.

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    She looks lovely!! (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by sallywally on Tue Apr 19, 2016 at 09:26:59 PM EST


    And charming (5.00 / 2) (#27)
    by Nemi on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 06:30:12 PM EST
    Even as someone who never had a problem perceiving her as likeable - and then some ;) - I was still really surprised at how charming and at ease she looked and acted. Winning becomes her. :)

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    Brooklyn (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by Ga6thDem on Tue Apr 19, 2016 at 09:31:51 PM EST
    was where everybody was expecting Bernie to deliver yet he didn't.

    actually, there were articles about (5.00 / 2) (#3)
    by Jeralyn on Tue Apr 19, 2016 at 10:12:04 PM EST
    how his own neighborhood largely supports Trump.

    His support seems to be in areas of Brooklyn that are filled with non-natives and college kids. "In reality, Sanders is more popular with young, mostly white, non-native New Yorkers who live in Brooklyn's toniest enclaves than he is in neighborhoods like Midwood."

    There's some irony to the anti-big money champion of the working class and social justice finding his biggest support in wealthy white neighborhoods.

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    I'm so happy! (5.00 / 2) (#4)
    by Cashmere on Tue Apr 19, 2016 at 10:45:54 PM EST
    Is it now appropriate to hope that Bernie Sanders starts to get behind backing the eventual democratic nominee?  Not asking that he get out of the race, just hoping he moves toward a message that is more uniting than dividing.  One can hope :)
     

    perfectly appropriate (5.00 / 1) (#5)
    by Jeralyn on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 12:06:37 AM EST
    I think that is what will happen (none / 0) (#7)
    by Steve13209 on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 10:39:07 AM EST
    He will continue to talk about the differences between the two campaigns, but eventually end up with a unity platform. Frame is as "A Democratic President is needed for ANY progressive reforms".

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    I was a big supporter (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by CST on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 10:28:02 AM EST
    Of Obama in 2008, and I still am.  But this makes me happy.  I feel like I got a win/win out of it.

    Congrats Hillary, and on to the general!

    I hate primaries, they're like family feuds (and often lead to actual family feuds).  Glad this one is almost over.

    Yes (5.00 / 1) (#8)
    by Ga6thDem on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 10:51:59 AM EST
    I feel the same way about it being like a family feud. I hope in a few months Anne, Zorba, SJ and the others venture back to post. Anne could really pull up some interesting details in her posts.

    But frankly does this seem like the longest primary ever? I'm sure it's been going on at least a year now. Talk, talk talk for months and then finally voting in Feb.

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    2008 (none / 0) (#9)
    by CST on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 11:05:43 AM EST
    felt longer.  And it was.

    But yea, it will be nice to have everyone back, if they come back.

    My mother last night was kind of funny, she was glad to hear from me after speaking with my "traitorous agnostic sister" (who doesn't care who wins the primary as long as Dems win the general, and is ironically, the only actual religious person in the family).

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    Watching the several (5.00 / 3) (#10)
    by Nemi on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 12:26:54 PM EST
    videos of Hillary Clinton playing Dominoes on a visit to a housing project in Harlem, that have been making the rounds on social media over the weekend, I simply can't comprehend how people see her as inauthentic and unlikeable. Of course, 'the eye of the beholder' and all; and Sharon Stone finds Bernie Sanders adorable, so ... I rest my case. :)

    But what I find extra fascinating watching that situation, is how I can practically see how her brain goes into gear the minute she sits down to play. As in 'Now how do we solve this ...'

    She did solve it: The wonky one won! Almost as a premonition of Tuesday's result.

    Btw, rumour has it, that she even knows all the different regional rules of how to play Dominoes. Not that it surprises me. ;)

    Sweet Sixteen ... yes, Sixteen (5.00 / 2) (#11)
    by christinep on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 02:19:08 PM EST
    A good, strong victory for a good, gracious,  caring woman.
    And, I loved watching the full diversity of people around her ... the fullness of New York.  A side-effect for husband & me as we watched last night (& with all the clips from bubble tea to dominoes) is a renewed urge to take a several day trip to The City--and that is what NYC is in all its dimensions "The City"-- in early fall or thereabouts because it has been way too long since we got lost & found there.

    Now ...on to the land of my earliest days: Pennsylvania.  Here's hoping.  That state is not a stranger to her either ... think Scranton, etc.  (As for myself, I'll volunteer tomorrow morn to make calls for GOTV in PA ... as I've done in the past ... those ties bind.)

    I haven't been back to NYC since we (none / 0) (#12)
    by vml68 on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 02:41:34 PM EST
    left a year and a half ago. But, I am planning to go in June.
    For someone who was very reluctant to move to the NYC area years ago, it surprised me how much I enjoyed living there and how much I miss it now. Hoping to move back there in a few years.

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    I can imagine the pull, vml (none / 0) (#17)
    by christinep on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 03:18:22 PM EST
    BTW, if you don't mind my asking, what part of the country do you live in these days? (I ask because there are contrasts and there are Contrasts.)  :)

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    FL :-(! (5.00 / 1) (#24)
    by vml68 on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 03:45:11 PM EST
    Actually, it has not been too bad.
    The first few months were tough. Just getting used to simple things like having to drive everywhere as opposed to taking the subway or the PATH or walking!
    Not seeing the Statue of Liberty everyday when walking my dogs, not hearing the fog horns of the Staten Island ferry and other river traffic on the Hudson on misty/foggy mornings/nights.
    The museums. Can't say the theatre because with husbands work/travel schedule, planning to see a show was a waste of time.
    Not being able to go to all kinds of ethnic stores and restaurants (my preference over the more sophisticated city offerings). And something probably dear to your heart, not being able to buy all kinds of homemade polish sausages from stores where I stuck out like a sore thumb because I was one of the few customers that did not speak the language. I loved walking into some of those places and suddenly feeling you have been transported to another country.
    Just wandering aimlessly around the city and people watching!

    Did I just say it hasn't been too bad?! I think I just depressed myself :-)

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    I forgot this was not an Open thread. (none / 0) (#25)
    by vml68 on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 03:52:19 PM EST
    Jeralyn please delete.
    I reposted on the Open thread.

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    Just expressing personal feelings about this race. (5.00 / 3) (#13)
    by Cashmere on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 02:58:30 PM EST
    I listen to Sirius, switching back and forth between CNN and MSNBC while driving.  I am a 52 year-old white woman living in Portland, OR.  I have two sons that are 24 and 28, both of whom are yuuuge Bernie supporters, and I respect that.  My husband, like me, supports Hillary, although he is more into Bernie than I am.  So, knowing my background, I have to say that I am getting a bit annoyed hearing the media constantly discuss how the youth vote is so important and everyone that supports Hillary really needs to listen to what the youth is saying, understand them, do what you can for them, etc., etc., etc.   I fully understand that the youth feels that my generation screwed them over, but for many, it certainly is not that way (as with my boys that have their college education paid in full, are gainfully employed with engineering careers, as I still pay my own student loans from when I got my engineering degree after returning to school late in life).  My boys are great, but I am tired of the lack of respect from many of the youth re: Hillary supporters.  No one cared so much when I was in my 20s and what I wanted from politicians, but now, we are so centered on the youth that we have to do everything to ensure they do not feel that they are not getting what they want.  OK, rant over, and thanks for letting me express here.  Interested in other perspectives about this.

    My only thought (5.00 / 1) (#14)
    by CST on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 03:02:43 PM EST
    Is that I suspect your parents felt similarly :)

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    :) But I didn't ask my parents to respect my (none / 0) (#15)
    by Cashmere on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 03:15:11 PM EST
    political views.  The youth of today doesn't seem to respect that the older generation also has dreams and aspirations for the country.

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    Ha ha ha ha! (5.00 / 1) (#23)
    by Militarytracy on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 03:41:01 PM EST
    I know :) I was kicked out of Thanksgiving dinner when I was 18 because I voted for Reagan. No Turkey for you Turkey! Come back one year you betraying ingrate.

    But I wanted to be a yuppie, I thought I wanted to drive a BMW. I didn't know yet that my soul was shallow as a puddle ;)

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    I guess it was just (none / 0) (#20)
    by CST on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 03:29:18 PM EST
    my parents then :)

    Also thinking about McGovern.

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    The (none / 0) (#18)
    by Ga6thDem on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 03:21:57 PM EST
    way it was back them was that you had your views and they had theirs and you just had to agree to disagree.

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    as the mother (5.00 / 2) (#19)
    by Ga6thDem on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 03:26:12 PM EST
    of a millennial I feel your pain. Honestly though if the media actually lived with my son they would never be making statements like that. I hope sooner or later he will finally "get it" but you know with boys their frontal lobe is not fully developed until they are 25. Do we really want people without complete reasoning skills making decisions for people who have a lot of experience? :)

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    Agree! I love your frontal lobe comment. (5.00 / 1) (#21)
    by Cashmere on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 03:31:32 PM EST
    My husband is in neuroscience and he has been saying this ever since the boys got to be 18, re: decision-making.  It is very very true!

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    Exactly! (none / 0) (#29)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 09:33:11 PM EST
    That's why Jeralyn has long ranted about our increased propensity to try teenage offenders as adults in criminal court, rather than remand them to juvenile court where they belong.

    We derive our highest cognitive processes, such as reason and rationalization, from our frontal lobes. Young men in particular can be prone to react emotionally rather than rationally, especially when faced with a frustrating or confrontational circumstance.

    Why would you hold an 18-year-old male accountable as an adult for what we consider unreasonable behavior, or further depend on him to make important but reasonable decision on behalf of a larger group, when at that age he is as of yet physiologically incapable of complex reasoning?

    Aloha.

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    I remember in 2008 (5.00 / 2) (#22)
    by Militarytracy on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 03:35:15 PM EST
    When Hillary supporters were also told we were disillusioning the youth vote with our Hillary support because Obama was the candidate that was going to inspire the young in this country to vote Democrat for the rest of their lives.

    Most of them ended up disillusioned BY the Obama Presidency once he got into office. I am the oldest grandchild and the youngest was very energized during the Obama campaign.

    But Obama didn't immediately pull out of Iraq. He had to strategically do that. He wasn't able to close Gitmo. He did stick with shoring up the banks being the safer bet for all of us, and that did lead to greater income inequality. My cousin thinks all politics are BS now. It was all or nothing. If all wasn't obtained, now he wants nothing to do with it.

    There is no way to healthfully protect the idealistic youth vote from life's realities.

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    I hadn't (5.00 / 2) (#26)
    by Ga6thDem on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 04:14:03 PM EST
    remembered that about "disillusioning" youth until you mentioned it. The irony is those voters are the very same who know are the disillusioned like you say. I would rather have someone like Hillary who says she would rather under promise and over deliver than one who promises unicorns are going to magically fall out of the sky.

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    ... by seeking to shield them completely from pain and unpleasantness, because failure and loss are integral components of our life's experience, and we're likely setting them up for some incredible disappointment by doing do.

    I hate to sound like an old curmudgeon, but it sometimes honestly seems like we've effectively raised an entire generation of kids who as young adults now feel entitled to a positive and rewarding outcome, regardless of their actual effort or the quality of their performance. Because hey, everybody gets a participation trophy and accompanying framed certificate, and everyone's a winner -- right?

    The online tantrums and abusive behavior we've seen from the young "Bernie Bros" are likely symptomatic of that self-centered upbringing. And frankly, their enabling parents are still a problem.

    Elder Daughter called me this morning, and told me about getting chewed out by the father of one of her players immediately after a volleyball match on Tuesday night, because she had benched the boy for having cursed one of the officials when a call didn't go his way.

    She admitted that she was sorely tempted to suspend that player for a week, but realized that she would be punishing him because his father was an a$$. So instead, she called the boy -- who's only 15 -- aside right before practice the next afternoon, explained to him what he had done wrong the previous night, how he had hurt his team by his actions, and why she had benched him for the remainder of the match.

    She was prepared to hear a litany of excuses from him, but was pleasantly surprised when he listened attentively, obviously felt shame and remorse for his behavior, and promised her that he would not do it again. He even apologized to her for his father's rudeness to her after the match! She offered that he probably expected her to suspend him from the team, because the relief on his face when she didn't was quite noticeable.

    Okay, so lesson learned, problem solved and all's well that ends well. But really, while I'm proud of Elder Daughter for having become a mature and confident young woman, I'm rather annoyed by the fact that she had to assume the role of parent in this instance and explain to that boy the difference between proper and improper personal behavior during an athletic contest, because his own father had proved himself such a poor role model.

    Aloha.

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    Donald: Good for your daughter.... (none / 0) (#30)
    by christinep on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 09:38:33 PM EST
    If your attitude is that of a curmudgeon, well ... please allow me and a host of friends to join you on curmudgeon row. IMO, the let's-not-hurt-younger-voters-or their sensibilities-because-they-need-protection (from themselves & life, maybe?) has tended to leave me sputtering or slack-jawed. They will survive & more IF we allow them to be resilient & to grow.

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    I believe that the manner ... (none / 0) (#31)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Thu Apr 21, 2016 at 06:16:30 AM EST
    ... in which you handle adversity speaks directly to your personal character. As the late UCLA basketball coach John Wooden used to tell his players, your skills may take you to the very top, but it's your character that will ultimately determine how long you actually stay there. (See "Harding, Tonya" and "Nixon, Richard.")

    We may not realize it at the time it occurs, but sometimes failure may be the very best thing to happen to us in a given instance, because failure is often the catalyst for serious introspection and subsequent personal growth.

    And as hard as it sometimes is to watch, the best thing we can do as parents and grandparents is to allow our children and grandchildren to experience failure. Then afterward, we lift them back up and on their feet, we listen patiently to their laments and frustrations as we dust them off and dry their tears, we give them a big hug and some encouraging words, and we send them right back out there into the game to try again.

    Aloha.

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    My experience of Millennials (none / 0) (#32)
    by FreakyBeaky on Thu Apr 21, 2016 at 06:42:45 AM EST
    They have a high level of awareness and comfort with disability, and on public transit are most often polite and collaborative.

    As an assistant coach at adaptive rec (power soccer, specifically) I have experienced no more than the usual (regrettable) level of "little-league dads/moms." Depends on the team and what's at stake, but can get very nasty - and it's the parents' fault.

    As a teammate (it's all-ages and co-ed), I have experienced few of the negative stereotypes of millenials.

    Extra so for my millenial co-workers including student interns over the last 10 years. Some very high performers and few problems.

    So how to explain the Sanders support and obnoxious nature of the on-line campaign, which has included a level of venom towards HRC from some acquaintances I've been surprised at.

    My theory: Sanders is a nasty piece of work and he has lied to them. They've been more susceptible to Bernie's slanders for a number of reasons, but I would argue the main one is lack of experience. Sanders has been skillful at his falsehoods and insinuations, and has exploited his APPEARANCE of authenticity to the full with a demographic that seems uniquely attached to it as a sorting criterion.

    So I don't know about coddling their feelings and etc. I think it will more be about picking up the pieces, and I'll do my bit if asked nicely.

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    I don't think Bernie is a nasty piece of (none / 0) (#34)
    by Militarytracy on Thu Apr 21, 2016 at 02:40:52 PM EST
    Work. I just don't. He is a politician. If he were President he would "try" to address what he's selling. And he would win a couple and lose most.

    I haven't given up on Millenials, they are just in a different emotional intelligence place than many generations were at that age. I think they do stand to sort out more than a bit of our systemic discrimination. They are going to marry exactly who the hell they want to marry if they even want to marry, and I must commend them for it.

    Social media removes the phyically detectable  human characteristics of those we are debating. Then we can say and do almost anything if we aren't careful. We are too physically removed from our own carnage online. Online makes objectification in all forms so much easier.

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    Yes! (none / 0) (#33)
    by Militarytracy on Thu Apr 21, 2016 at 02:10:46 PM EST
    It was wonderful to raise children in a sort of golden age. When one of my great grandmother's died, my grandfather discovered he had two older siblings that had died from a childhood plague. He had a really rough childhood, and we never knew why his mother didn't seem to bond to him. Buried in her death paperwork was finally a clue. My generation really did experience a golden era....and then we proceeded to raise a bunch of narcissists ;)

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    Word for Cashmere (none / 0) (#16)
    by mogal on Wed Apr 20, 2016 at 03:15:24 PM EST
    Amen

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