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Барак Обама победил на выборах 2012 с перевесом в 4%. Какая-то часть этих процентов была принесена Биллом Клинтоном с его зажигательной речью на съезде демократов.
Некоторые из откликов политических комментаторов:
Alex Castellanos (CNN): "This convention is done. This is the moment that probably re-elected Barack Obama."
Joe Trippi (Fox News): "I think Bill Clinton did Barack Obama the biggest favor he ever could have done."
Nicholas Kristof (NY Times): “That may have been Clinton's best speech. Explained without talking down, and drew distinctions without nastiness. Wow!”
Речь Клинтона начиналась с хвалебной характеристики Обамы:
Now, Mr. Mayor, fellow Democrats, we are here to nominate a president. (Cheers, applause.) And I’ve got one in mind. (Cheers, applause.)
I want to nominate a man whose own life has known its fair share of adversity and uncertainty. I want to nominate a man who ran for president to change the course of an already weak economy and then just six weeks before his election, saw it suffer the biggest collapse since the Great Depression; a man who stopped the slide into depression and put us on the long road to recovery, knowing all the while that no matter how many jobs that he saved or created, there’d still be millions more waiting, worried about feeding their own kids, trying to keep their hopes alive.
I want to nominate a man who’s cool on the outside - (cheers, applause) - but who burns for America on the inside. (Cheers, applause.)
I want - I want a man who believes with no doubt that we can build a new American Dream economy, driven by innovation and creativity, but education and - yes - by cooperation. (Cheers.)
And by the way, after last night, I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama. (Cheers, applause.)
И одновременно точный укол, прокалывающий пузырь Митта Ромни:
Don’t you ever forget when you hear them talking about this that Republican economic policies quadrupled the national debt before I took office, in the 12 years before I took office - (applause) - and doubled the debt in the eight years after I left, because it defied arithmetic. (Laughter, applause.) It was a highly inconvenient thing for them in our debates that I was just a country boy from Arkansas, and I came from a place where people still thought two and two was four. (Laughter, applause.) It’s arithmetic.
Но в историю возможно войдёт и речь Билла Клинтона в 2016, посвящённая его жене: "In the spring of 1971 I met a girl..."
Речь соткана из историй из жизни Клинтонов, которые подобраны, чтобы показать характер Хиллари ("she's insatiably curious, she's a natural leader, she's a good organizer, and she's the best darn change-maker I ever met in my entire life"). Одновременно это - гимн любимой женщине, как бы странно это и не звучало из уст Билла.
We were married in that little house on October the 11th, 1975. I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was. And I really hoped that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to pursue her own career was a decision she would never regret.
Возможно, самая сложная речь, которую Биллу когда-либо пришлось произносить.
There are clear, achievable, affordable responses to our challenges. But we won't get to them if America makes the wrong choice in this election. That's why you should elect her. And you should elect her because she'll never quit when the going gets tough. She'll never quit on you.
Click to viewНекоторые из откликов политических комментаторов:
Alex Castellanos (CNN): "This convention is done. This is the moment that probably re-elected Barack Obama."
Joe Trippi (Fox News): "I think Bill Clinton did Barack Obama the biggest favor he ever could have done."
Nicholas Kristof (NY Times): “That may have been Clinton's best speech. Explained without talking down, and drew distinctions without nastiness. Wow!”
Речь Клинтона начиналась с хвалебной характеристики Обамы:
Now, Mr. Mayor, fellow Democrats, we are here to nominate a president. (Cheers, applause.) And I’ve got one in mind. (Cheers, applause.)
I want to nominate a man whose own life has known its fair share of adversity and uncertainty. I want to nominate a man who ran for president to change the course of an already weak economy and then just six weeks before his election, saw it suffer the biggest collapse since the Great Depression; a man who stopped the slide into depression and put us on the long road to recovery, knowing all the while that no matter how many jobs that he saved or created, there’d still be millions more waiting, worried about feeding their own kids, trying to keep their hopes alive.
I want to nominate a man who’s cool on the outside - (cheers, applause) - but who burns for America on the inside. (Cheers, applause.)
I want - I want a man who believes with no doubt that we can build a new American Dream economy, driven by innovation and creativity, but education and - yes - by cooperation. (Cheers.)
And by the way, after last night, I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama. (Cheers, applause.)
И одновременно точный укол, прокалывающий пузырь Митта Ромни:
Don’t you ever forget when you hear them talking about this that Republican economic policies quadrupled the national debt before I took office, in the 12 years before I took office - (applause) - and doubled the debt in the eight years after I left, because it defied arithmetic. (Laughter, applause.) It was a highly inconvenient thing for them in our debates that I was just a country boy from Arkansas, and I came from a place where people still thought two and two was four. (Laughter, applause.) It’s arithmetic.
Но в историю возможно войдёт и речь Билла Клинтона в 2016, посвящённая его жене: "In the spring of 1971 I met a girl..."
Речь соткана из историй из жизни Клинтонов, которые подобраны, чтобы показать характер Хиллари ("she's insatiably curious, she's a natural leader, she's a good organizer, and she's the best darn change-maker I ever met in my entire life"). Одновременно это - гимн любимой женщине, как бы странно это и не звучало из уст Билла.
We were married in that little house on October the 11th, 1975. I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was. And I really hoped that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to pursue her own career was a decision she would never regret.
Возможно, самая сложная речь, которую Биллу когда-либо пришлось произносить.
There are clear, achievable, affordable responses to our challenges. But we won't get to them if America makes the wrong choice in this election. That's why you should elect her. And you should elect her because she'll never quit when the going gets tough. She'll never quit on you.