Hillary's speech puts her audience to sleep
>Hillary's wardrobe change
By: ROBERT STEVENS
Sep 4, 2007 06:11 AM EST
In her six-page stump speech, Hillary mentioned “change” no fewer than 26 times.
SIOUX CITY, IOWA – In a carefully-calculated, highly-calibrated attempt to perfectly position her campaign in between her two leading opponents, Hillary Clinton began her “Fall Kick-Off Tour” over the Labor Day weekend by trying to seize the middle ground.
“I am from a middle-class family in the middle of the country,” she tells crowds in New Hampshire and Iowa. “I was born in the middle of the last century.”
But why is being in the middle of things so important? She signaled that with the new signs that appeared at her first event in Concord, N.H., on Sunday: “Change + Experience.”
And in her six-page stump speech, she mentioned “change” no fewer than 26 times.
In terms of her stump speech, however, change is exactly the opposite of what she delivers.
Her clothing often changes between speeches, but her words do not. She is delivering her speeches much more carefully than in the past, now reading from notes.
How carefully are these speeches being delivered? I clocked her first speech in Concord at 32 minutes and 42 seconds. Her second speech, in Portsmouth, N.H., came in at 32 minutes, 35 seconds.
Only a 7-second difference? That is discipline, the kind of discipline Democratic campaigns in the past rarely have been known for.
“If you are ready for change,” she says at the end of her speeches, “I am ready to lead.” |
