https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VE9nihee7o
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sits down with Vox's editor-in-chief Ezra Klein. Table of contents:
DNC 2016, day two: Bill Clinton hails 'change-maker' Hillary – as it happened
Bill Clinton gives deeply personal speech to support his wife, Hillary
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/jul/26/democratic-convention-day-two-clinton-nominee-sanders
Thus finishes the second day of the Democratic national convention. Here’s what happened:
The Democratic party nominated Hillary Clinton for president. Bernie Sanders played a prominent role, stepping in at the end of a roll call vote of states to ask for nomination by unanimous acclamation.
While some Sanders backers left the hall, the room bore only traces of the painfully audible, Clinton-versus-Sanders split that defined Day One.
With the nomination official, the party and the campaign embraced Clinton’s historic stature as the first female presidential nominee from a major party and possibly first female president.
The foregrounding of the here-comes-the-first-woman-president narrative represented a reversal from Clinton’s 2008 primary run, when she faced an equally historic opponent.
The narrative culminated with a slide show of US presidents, ending with an impressive animation of shattering glass – and there, suddenly, was Clinton, addressing the convention by video.
The crowd really enjoyed all of the aforementioned.
Clinton said, in part: “And if there are any little girls out there who stayed up late to watch, let me just say: I may become the first woman president but one of you is next.”
Former president Bill Clinton delivered a keynote speech in which he told the story of falling in love with Hillary Clinton and of how amazed he was at her industriousness and commitment to improving other people’s lives.
Bill Clinton, seeking to turn the Republican argument that Hillary has been around too long lead the country in a new direction, branded her “the change-maker.”
Sanders’ brother, Larry Sanders, appeared with the Democrats Abroad delegation and tearfully said their parents would have been proud of Sanders’ accomplishment.
Speakers from former secretary of state Madeleine Albright to Lena Dunham to Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards emphasized the role that women voters could play in electing president Hillary Clinton. The Republicans released a statement that said in part, “Tonight Democrats formally nominated the most scandal-plagued and disliked candidate in the history of their party.”
That’s it from us. See you bright and early tomorrow.
Democratic National Convention 2016: speakers, schedule, platform, and what to expect
http://www.vox.com/2016/7/25/12258368/democratic-convention-2016-dnc-speakers-schedule-platform
Obama Demolishes Trump, Endorses Hillary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFYuFdkEqfw
President Barack Obama tore into Republican Donald Trump during his powerful endorsement of presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Introducing Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Joe Kennedy III explains what it was like to be in her law school class
https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2016/07/26/introducing-elizabeth-warren-rep-joe-kennedy-iii-explains-like-law-school-class
Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III greets Sen. Elizabeth Warren following his introduction Monday night at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
Rep. Joe Kennedy III began his remarks Monday night with a story: His first day at Harvard Law School.
“It was my first day of law school, my very class.” the 35-year-old Massachusetts representative said, recalling a memory from the not-so-distant past. “The goal: Escape unscathed.”
Spoiler alert: Not going to happen.
“Not three seconds in,” Kennedy said, and he was challenged by his professor on the definition of assumpsit, a 14th-century term for a particular legal agreement.
The then-25-year-old law school student, and grandson of Robert F.Kennedy, was at a loss for words.
“‘Mr. Kennedy, you realize assumpsit is the very first word in your reading,'” Kennedy continued, channeling his still-unidentified professor.
Kennedy had no idea what it meant, and said he had even circled the word in his book to indicate such.
“”Mr. Kennedy, do you own a dictionary?'” he said, continuing to channel his professor. “‘That’s what people do when they don’t know what a word means; they look it up in a dictionary.'”
“I never showed up unprepared for Professor Elizabeth Warren ever again,” Kennedy said.
“She was the toughest teacher on campus, but the wait list for her class was a mile long” remembered the second-term fourth district congressman. “She pushed us hard, she brought out our best, she believed in us.”
Kennedy went on to introduce his former law school professor, who now serves in the Senate seat of his late, great-uncle Ted Kennedy.
He called Warren “our government’s gut-check” and “an anchor for the voiceless and victimized.”
“She asks more from all of us, because she believes deeply in each of us,” Kennedy said of Warren. “That faith in our country and the American people is the very foundation of our Democratic Party.”
Warren’s class also turned out pretty well for Kennedy, who met his wife in that same Harvard Law class.
Watch Rep. Joe Kennedy’s full speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIGL-KnATQk
‘A big moment’ for rising star Joe Kennedy III
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/2016/07/a_big_moment_for_rising_star_joe_kennedy_iii
PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III introduced his former law professor — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren — last night in a prime-time address at the Democratic National Convention that has Bay State delegates looking optimistically to the rising star’s bright future.
“It’s a big deal obviously. Congressman Kennedy’s shown a lot of courage and leadership in the early part of his career here and he’s building his own name and record,” said state Rep. Nick Collins (D-South Boston), a Massachusetts delegate. “I think it’s a big moment for him. … He’s still a millennial. He’s speaking to a generation of folks who are coming of age in the party.”
The 35-year-old congressman was tapped by Democratic insiders as the top name to replace Warren if she was picked to be Hillary Clinton’s vice president. Even though Clinton went with Virginia U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, Kennedy is still seen as someone to watch in election cycles to come.
“This is the beginning of a bright future,” said Suffolk Sheriff Steve Tompkins, another Bay State delegate.
FULL: Joseph P. Kennedy III - Democratic National Convention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XFF_5sUSac
FULL: Joseph P. Kennedy III - Democratic National Convention
Robert F.Kennedy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy_II
Joseph P. Kennedy III