Dog walking man original by ed rust11/20/2022 ![]() ![]() He talked about her summer sliming fish in Alaska and all her work for poor children. He implicitly compared his wife to her gilded rival, limning her as someone genuinely seeking a life of service. “One is real, the other is made up,” he said of the caricature of Hillary. “Life in the real world is complicated and hard,” he said, and “a lot of people think it’s boring.” He simply alluded to the way the Republican convention had tried to turn Hillary into a “cartoon” villainess. He never mentioned Donald Trump, the man he used to be friendly with and play golf with. He poured on the estrogen, presaging his role as helpmeet in the East Wing. In trying to feminize and maternalize Hillary, Bill almost went overboard about that “girl,” as he called her three times. It is another example of the overcorrecting that marks Hillary’s career. “My daughter had the best mother in the whole world,” he said tonight, adding that Hillary was “first and foremost” a mother, “our family’s designated worrier” who only worried about Bill’s parenting when he took a couple days off with Chelsea to watch all six “Police Academy” movies “back-to-back.” He described Hillary on her knees, lining Chelsea’s Stanford dorm room drawers with paper when their daughter moved to college, until Chelsea told them it was time to leave. Hill and Bill both have 100-percent name ID but Bill’s task was to reintroduce her as “the best darn change-maker I have ever met in my entire life.”Ī quarter-century after Clinton aides wrote memos about how to warm up and round out Hillary by raising her profile as a mother, Bill was still trying to drive that point home. He rivaled Ivanka in his talent for airbrushing, but he probably won’t be offering his convention outfit for sale tonight. The Protean pol had to take his wife’s ever-shifting personas and policies, and paint a cohesive portrait. The uncontrollable Clinton had to make the tightly-controlled Clinton seem less coiled and more endearing. “One of the most seductive characters we’ve seen in American politics in our lifetime,” as David Axelrod calls Bill Clinton, had to melt the sphinx-like aura of his guarded wife. One of the most liked presidents was charged with humanizing one of the least liked presidential candidates. (An earlier celebrity speaker tonight was Tony Goldwyn, who plays the philandering president in a series inspired by Bill and Monica).Īfter the email shaming and a bloodless campaign, tonight it was Bill’s turn to rescue Hillary from being the most unknown known person in history. “You could drop her in any trouble spot, pick one, come back in a month and somehow, some way, she will have made it better,” he said, in a line that could have applied to global crises or marital. Or as a former aide described the Clinton pattern: “Hubris. Or maybe more precisely, their byzantine conjugal dynamic works like this: One of them creates chaos - usually Bill - and then they get out of it together. ![]() It has been said that the essence of the Clinton marriage is coming to each other’s rescue in critical moments. She “calls you when you’re sick, when your kid’s in trouble or when there’s a death in the family,” Bill said of his partner of 40 years. In an act of amazing self-restraint, the man who relishes the word “I” managed to make the talk, as he prefers to call his folksy speeches, all about her. The Big Dog basked in the unique historic moment: a former president and a husband and a wannabe first lad making the case for a former first lady, a wife and a wannabe first woman president. ![]() With a sky-blue tie and silvery hair and an easy smile, the 69-year-old looked healthier than he has on the trail. He said when he first saw her in a political and civil rights class that he wanted to tap her on the shoulder but he knew if he did, he would be starting something beyond his control. He told a familiar love story, recounted in his memoir, about springtime at Yale Law School in 1971 and a “magnetic” girl with thick blond hair and big glasses and no makeup and a long, white flowery skirt. PHILADELPHIA - His life took off, he said, when he fell in love with “that girl.” ![]()
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