Yesterday, for the first time in this election cycle, I heard Hillary Clinton give a great campaign speech. Not a great policy speech, or “position-paper” speech, but a flat-out great campaign speech.<\/p>\n
She took down her opponent by decisively and accurately enumerating his weaknesses and deficiencies. And she did it calmly and cooly, with humor, cleverness, and tremendous poise.<\/p>\n
Like it or not, the race for the President of the United States is partly about which candidate is able to most effectively project a sense of power and command. That’s largely a result of the multiple roles a President plays in the U.S.: top military commander, most powerful agent for economic policy, and the nearest thing our country has to a regal figurehead.<\/p>\n
Today Clinton hit those marks perfectly. She stopped acting like a policy wonk (although she really is a highly gifted policy wonk) and started to act like a President.<\/p>\n
One of the two leading candidates for President is an actual expert, with deep knowledge of our government, our legal system and our economic system, and the other one is a highly gifted TV personality. Up until now, the TV personality had been grabbing the entire spotlight.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the conversation is finally starting to shift from reality television to reality. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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