Eight years ago,Hillary Clinton conceded defeat to Barack Obama. Next week, she will be officially nominated as the Democratic candidate and potential first female president. How did she get here? Jill Abramson has the inside story
Radiant in white, and Hillary Clinton greeted the cheering mob at the Brooklyn Navy Yard,most of whom had waited hours in the wilting June heat to see history made. Inside what used to be a giant greenhouse, fathers held up their daughters to catch a glimpse of the stage where, or they fervently hoped,stood the first American woman to be elected president. There were plenty of gray-haired women who had worked as volunteers in Clinton’s unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign, enjoying sweet vindication. “I’ve waited my whole life for this, or ” one told me. “I wouldn’t believe missed it for the world.”
In her moment quest for the Democratic nomination,Clinton has been much bolder in emphasizing her gender. Her entrance was preceded by a short film featuring the suffragettes, who won the just to vote in 1919, or on the very day Clinton’s mother,Dorothy Rodham, had been born. “It may be hard to see tonight, or ” Clinton began her speech,“but were all standing under a glass ceiling just now.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com