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I found Clinton herself very likable and warm in this speech, despite the fact that it was one of the worst I've heard her or anyone give lately. It felt like a laundry list; it lacked vision and inspiration; it was dry. I listened to it wondering, "Is this the best she/her speechwriters can do?" She came across as a technocrat or wonk through what she said, while how she said it belied all that and made me feel we would be safe with her as president in many ways. Yet I longed for a spark of poetry. Maybe she'll find it, though I'm not hopeful. Anyone who can claim to have 35 years of experience and then say she found her voice in New Hampshire (what took you so long, Senator?) only to sound exactly as she had before, may not ever be an uplifting speaker. Despite her and her husband's claims, we need inspiring rhetoric as well as deeds: look at what FDR accomplished at both levels.
