http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/5-takeaways-from-clintons-relaunch-rally-118976.html?ml=po5 takeaways from Clinton's relaunch rally
And one big one: This was Hillary being Hillary.
By Glenn Thrush
6/13/15 5:49 PM EDT
Updated 6/14/15 12:03 PM EDT
Hillary Clinton, who has spent most of the early campaign touting her virtues as a note-taking listener, had lots and lots to say — and then some more — during her epic 2016 kickoff speech on Roosevelt Island.
Much of it was the expected proto-State of the Union stuff — the entire last half was a policy agenda full of vague specifics (“I will rewrite the tax code so it rewards hard work and investments here at home, not quick trades or stashing profits overseas”) and wonked-out data points geared to justify government investment (“eighty percent of the brain is developed by age three”).
But much of the address — which was obsessively written, marked up and rewritten by the candidate herself over the last week with speechwriter Dan Schwerin — had the discursive and intimate quality of a Facebook stream, as if Clinton were sending a friend request to the entire Democratic Party and hoping for the best. It was replete with snapshots from her past, hyperlinks to cool ideas she’s read in the progressive blogosphere, and above all, self-definitional passages that connected her own life with the experiences of middle-class and low-income Americans.
In all, the speech wasn’t in a class with her famous “glass ceiling” barnburner, which closed out the 2008 campaign. Yet like that speech, it did reflect Clinton’s stated goal inside the campaign – creating an ideological “foundation” for the next 17 months of campaigning. And it certainly reflected the Hillary her staff knows: a little long-winded, earnest to a fault, and above all, trying very hard to connect with her party’s base.
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