Saturday, June 4, 2016

Great speech, Hillary.

As Matthew Yglesias points out in his very fine piece on Vox, Hillary Clinton's speech, where she "eviscerated" Donald Trump was aimed at center-right voters who are looking for some way to avoid voting for Trump.  He says that liberal Democrats will be disappointed in the speech but that it is smart strategy.    She's aiming for that 70% landslide.   Another time, she'll make other speeches full of policy ideas for her liberal and progressive voters.   This one was to bring in another group.

Yglesias is right.   The media commentary has been great

Huffington Post:  Hillary Clinton Eviscerates Donald Trump In Her Best Speech Yet. 

New York Magazine:  Hillary Clinton Argues That Giving Nuclear Codes to Ill-tempered Ignoramus Would Be Mistake. 

Vox:  Hillary Clinton rolled out the anti-Trump argument that could deliver a landslide. 

PoliticusUSA:  Hillary Clinton Just Turned Trump Into A National Joke In Epic Foreign Policy Smackdown. 

Slate:  Hillary Clinton Just Kicked Trump in the Shins. 

Business Insider:  Hillary Clinton just delivered one of her strongest arguments yet against Donald Trump. 

New York Daily News:  Hillary Clinton beats Donald Trump to a deserved pulp;  She exposes him as a dangerous and unstable would-be commander-in-chief. 

The New Republic:  Donald Trump has never looked weaker.
             [ouch !!   that one's going to get under his skin] 

Slate:   Clinton Bluntly Mocks Trump's Foreign Policy Ideas Simply by Restating Them. 

Reuters:  Clinton casts Trump as dangerous clown in caustic speech on foreign policy. 

Washington Post:  Hillary Clinton just proved she is very good at taunting Donald Trump.

In fact, she taunted him where it hurts, his tweets, saying "He's probably sending out one right now."   And he was.    You've just read some of what the media said.   Here's The Donald's lame reply:
"Bad performance by Crooked Hillary Clinton! Reading poorly from the telepromter! She doesn't even look presidential!"
Hillary Clinton just did what 16 Republican candidates couldn't do.    She got the best of Donald Trump.   His response is pathetic.  Despite what he said, hers was a fantastic performance, expertly delivered, and she has never looked more in command.

Ralph

PS:   Latest poll released late yesterday shows Hillary Clinton with an 11% advantage over Donald Trump.    That's a big change in just the last week, when they were essentially tied in some polls.   It's also becoming clear that this new strategy is a winning one:   don't focus on policy differences with Trump, because he has none that last for more than a day or two.   In this speech, what she focused on is his incompetence to be president, his lack of preparedness but, even moreso, his disqualifying temperament.   The beautiful thing about this line of attack is that his response proves the point.

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