He’s betting that the perils of today’s world will blind us to its unlimited promise,” Clinton said. Clinton’s historic address was designed in part to show voters a gentler side of the guarded fighter they had come to know. Where a Republican speaker led a chant of “all lives matter,” the Democrats featured speaker after speaker who said “black lives matter.” Where the Republican convention was preoccupied with the danger “radical Islamic terrorism,” the Democratic convention spent far more time on the danger of gun violence. Before Roe v. Wade?”The convention showcased the Democrats’ increasing assertiveness on culture-war matters they and the Clintons in particular had long approached with caution. Clinton, emphasizing the Obama-era progress of minority groups, described an ascendant and generous America whose past meant suffering for many of its inhabitants.

Source: thestar July 29, 2016 04:00 UTC