Hillary Clinton delivered a speech promising her presidency will embrace all Americans and refocus the nation on true pro-family liberal Democratic ideals, including wages, equality, and fighting for minorities, the middle class, and those in poverty.
In a 45 minutes speech that was slated to last 25 minutes, Hillary Clinton Saturday withstood 80-plus degree heat and humidity, without breaking a sweat, to tell the 5500 supporters gathered at New York City’s Roosevelt Island how she will move America forward if elected president.
Gone was any presumption of inevitability. Instead, Clinton offered a new and far more progressive vision with many specifics, not just talking points.
Clinton, in a speech she wrote herself, defined herself and shared her life’s history, but focused on promising Americans four strong liberal Democratic ideals: building a strong economy focused on long term growth, not Wall Street short-term profit motives, uplifting America’s families by recognizing that healthcare, equal wages, education, child care, paid family leave, high rates of incarceration, and civil rights are all family issues, making America strong at home and overseas, and expanding and protecting democracy and voting rights, including promising to support a constitutional amendment overturning the Supreme Court decision on Citizens united.
Clearly, the past few months she has spent traveling the country and speaking one-on-one to Americans paid off, as was evident in today’s speech.
The 67-year old former First Lady, former U.S. Senator, and former Secretary of State offered an optimistic vision of a renewed America, one that works together and unites. Unlike her Republican rivals, she did not mention any of them by name, nor did she spend much time ridiculing or attacking them.
Clinton repeatedly spoke of LGBT rights and equality, climate change, science, education, family, growth, and in a rare switch from most political speeches, human kindness.
Overall, her speech was well-received:
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Image: Screenshot via Hillary Clinton/YouTube
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