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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Saturday, June 07, 2008

Less important

There's alot to discuss in that speech, I'll leave that to the pros, but one of the smaller and less important elements I found interesting were the efforts towards legacy.

There was the serious framing of her candidacy as an issue of women's rights (and the implication that sexism is what lost it,) she fully credited herself with cracking the glass ceiling, and there was also the very interesting reframing of her husband.

She emphasized that Bill Clinton held two of the three Democratic presidencies in the last 40 years, spoke at some length that we should hope to get back to/extend the positives of his presidency, and, perhaps most interesting, made no real mention of anything contemporary about him. It seemed to be an effort to put him back into the past successes of his presidency and not mention anything over the past year.

She did everything she could for the ticket in that speech and should be applauded for that, but as this is her last big moment in the spotlight, her last chance to shape the understanding of what's gone on, I found the less important elements of legacy interesting.

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