Daily Kos: Hillary Clinton guts Donald Trump, cuts remains into cubes, tosses what's left in trash
Hillary Clinton delivered a speech this afternoon providing … what’s the word? Critique? Review? Royal ass-kicking, knife-wielding takedown?—of Donald Trump’s foreign policy.
It was a speech designed to do three things: tear the media narrative out of Trump’s hands, remind everyone that his positions are ridiculous, and goad Trump into even higher levels of idiocy. Not only was it a jaw-droppingly powerful speech, it was a speech that placed Clinton’s knowledge and experience against Trump’s massive ignorance and even more massive ego in a way that was both well-delivered and entertaining. It was a helluva speech, but not in the “better angels” or “ask not” sense of a speech that was uplifting. This was more like the world’s most high-level epic pwning.
Clinton started her speech with a steady, low-key introduction.
We honor the sacrifice of those who died for our country in many ways. By living our values. By making this a stronger and fairer nation. And by carrying out a smart, and principled, foreign policy.
In many ways, that’s the whole speech. What she did in the next 40 minutes was to contrast those ideas with what Trump has proposed instead. She framed the positions this way.
It’s a choice between a fearful America that’s less secure and less engaged with the world, and a strong, confident America that leads to keep our country safe and our economy growing.
And while that may sound like a fairly mild and standard beginning … it didn’t stay that way.
It took only a few lines before Clinton made her point directly.
Like many across our country and around the world, I believe the person the Republicans have nominated for president cannot do the job. Donald Trump’s ideas aren’t just different, they are dangerously incoherent. They’re not even really ideas. Just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds, and outright lies.
Throughout the speech, she contrasted the depth of her own experience with the things that Trump has done, and provided enough lines to fuel a Twitter war from now to November.
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