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| Bill, Hillary & Me |
TURNS OUT the Clintons are not the two-dimensional caricatures they appear to be on the left. The event billed as
An Evening With President Bill Clinton and Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver on Thursday humanized an ordinary couple who achieved the extraordinary. They spoke of everything from their relationship to this peculiar time in history when two plus two is not necessarily four.
The president’s hands had a slight tremor. His normally smooth southern accent sounded gravelly, perhaps due to age or some undisclosed ailment, but his ideas were sound and he had interesting tales to tell. You can check the
Clinton Foundation to see what he and she are mostly up to nowadays.
Hillary was composed, thoughtful, humourous, confident but concerned about the unstable turn democracy has taken and how hate and untruths are magnified on social media. When asked about the key issue of our time she put the environment on top. Infrastructure and all humanity does from this moment on must have clean air and water components. The president offered hope that humans will cooperate the way ants, termites and bees do to fix problems ... once the instinct to survive kicks in.
The pair looked small from my vantage point but their larger than life status was not diminished inside the well of a stage set up to look like a living room within the huge arena. Before they arrived pictures of their lives were displayed on the screen. Not surprisingly, my favourite was the one of Hillary under an umbrella.
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That must have been a very interesting evening Penelope. I would have enjoyed that, and a very nice photo of you three :) I like that photo of the umbrella too.
ReplyDeleteTo think what might have been! (“The saddest words of tongue or pen...”).
ReplyDeleteThat must have been a very interesting evening. Is society too selfish to work together to save the planet?
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of us like ants working together at some point! I have a photo of me and my boys posing with the cardboard Clintons but have no idea where it is.
ReplyDeleteThat event looks very interesting. I have never seen a couple of people more undeservedly demonized. Here in Oklahoma it seems many people go berserk at the mention of them. I think of the chance the country missed when we didn't elect Ms. Clinton.
ReplyDeleteSounds very interesting!
ReplyDeleteLovely presentation of the Clintons ~ USA would be in a better place I think if she had won the election ~ oh well ~ Hoping for the best ~
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A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Looks like you had a wonderful time listening to Mr. and Mrs. Clinton. They are true great leaders and look to be aging graceful. The photo of you is so nice. I suppose some people were standing in a queue to be photographed at that place.
ReplyDeleteVery candid and engaging description of their visit. As a congenital Democrat I now cannot get past their uncompromising support of abortion for any reason and at any stage of a human's life. This is what will bring their downfall no matter who runs against them. I remember being horrified when my grandfather drowned an entire littler of unwanted kittens. l fear that nowadays the Democrats view that as even a greater horror than taking human life. Admittedly, I do not oppose all controls, rather that, as the Clintons themselves used to say without any outcry from the radicals, abortion should be "safe and infrequent."
ReplyDeleteThanks for dropping by, Kenneth. For the sake of clarity, I don’t believe either Clinton is planning to run for any office any time soon. Also, although the issue didn’t come up during their talk, I think most pro-choice people would say they are not “for” abortion. Rather, they believe women have the basic right to decide for themselves when and whether to have children based on their own beliefs and circumstances.
ReplyDeleteThey both look very nice
ReplyDeleteA couple buoyed by their successes and perhaps too harshly judged for their shortcomings and all too human failures. It must be incredibly difficult to be a public figure in this age of social media and microscopic attention to every word uttered, with instant public display of slips of tongue in the past. And as you very correctly point out above, the Clintons are not advocating abortions, and I doubt that anyone else is, they are simply recognizing a woman's choice over her own body. Making abortions illegal does not prevent abortions, it removes the option for women to have safe abortions.
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