A Good-Enough Speech,
a First-Rate Convention

found online by Raymond

 
From Jonathan Bernstein at Bloomberg View:

The theme of the Democratic convention was “Stronger Together,” and the final day of the convention — and Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech — proved the point.

The speech itself? Clinton remains a second-rate orator, perhaps the equal of several previous nominees such as George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, as well as Mitt Romney, Bob Dole and Michael Dukakis. Her speech, like those delivered by all those men, was good enough.

What she lacks in skills, however, and what the speech lacked at time in craft, was more than made up for by the rest of the room, the pageantry and the historic occasion.

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