2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFirst impression of Clinton's speech versus Trump's speech.
Clinton's speech was inclusive: stronger together. Her audience in Brooklyn looks like the present and future of the America I love.
Trump's audience looks like the country club in Caddyshack.
YouDig
(2,280 posts)Greywing
(1,124 posts)Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)He will not be able to stay in that cage. He would have never won the Republican nomination had he performed like tonight. Trump knows that, the Republicans are deluding themselves again. You can't cage a tiger.
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)in the primary anymore. They are fact checking him more strenuously, calling him out in real time. And now that he is in the GE, he needs to appeal beyond his racist base, which means he can't say such overtly racist things anymore.
GOP is in a pickle, all right Of their own making. They encourage the racists for so many years because they wanted the votes. Not that tiger is going to bite them in the ass.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)what fuels Trump or his followers. He cannot be domesticated IMO.
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)He was boring and stupid. He is always stupid, but usually not a snooze.
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)I kept waiting for the part where he was going to "bring the party together". God he is boring when he reads a teleprompter. I did learn that he is going to "win bigly" That was the best part of the speech.
Clinton made a strong showing. She was serious but didn't go full policy wonk. "Stronger Together" is a good continuation of Obama's campaign themes.
Johnny2X2X
(19,114 posts)Very heart felt and polished at the same time. Was a fantastic speech with an incredible delivery. Best I can remember her. The message was incredible harkening to some of Obama's best speeches and really hitting Trump hard while really speaking to Bernie supporters too. Well done.
Stallion
(6,476 posts)Everybody in Manhattan that is Anybody was there-thankfully they restricted access from the riff-raff
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)Mz Pip
(27,453 posts)reading off of a TelePrompTer then I don't see him ever being a great orator.
He could have had the best speech writers. Instead he got a speech that was mostly platitudes and sound bites.