Sen. Hillary Clinton was welcomed by a student from Franklin Learning Center. I didn't catch her name, but she is a senior and a very active member of the community.
Here's Sen. Clinton as she took the podium smiling for the video cameras just over my left shoulder.
Here's a member of the student media corps who was recording Sen. Clinton's speech.
Here's a shot of an audience member taking a photo of Sen. Clinton during her speech.
Sen. Clinton's speech was fairly fluffy and trying to speak the language of the youth, the 1000 or so students and young professionals in the room. She spoke a lot on how the youth are already involved in the process: volunteering, voting, in public service... She said that the youth of today are more involved than in her day and that we are actively proving wrong the stereotype of the apathetic youth [I was pretty apathetic until about 2000].
Sen. Clinton also spoke of the difficulties of Americans not having access to [universal] healthcare. Something she fought so hard for when Bill was president. She's since backed off of universal healthcare issues, that's too bad. She also spoke of eVoting, something eRobin is very very familiar with. eRobin was less than pleased with Clinton's lauding of paperless eVoting. I was put off by this as well. We need some kind of fucking receipt! Proof. It's too easy to hack a box with no trace of foul play. Too easy to shift a bunch of binary 1s and 0s from one column to another.
Sen. Clinton ended her speech by talking about the shout fests that dominate TV nowadays. Hardball, O'Reilly... How I'd love to see an end to them. The 'Role of Media in Politics' panel I attended in the afternoon session addressed this and I'll post on it later. We need more facts. We can form our own damn opinions. O'Lielly is a total tool and pinhead.
Sen. Clinton ended her speech to a standing ovation, but nothing close to the rousing applause Nichol got twenty minutes earlier. She walked off the podium to greet some people seated front and center. Perhaps it was Marjorie Rendell, First Lady of PA and a federal judge sitting on the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals [formerly with Justice Samuel Alito]. Perhaps she was handing over some more money to the PA Dem campaign? She's already shelled out $10K from HillPAC to the Casey Jr campaign, blech. To her credit, she spoke well. She was much more charismatic that I've ever seen her in a public setting. She was not as robotic as usual.
And if anyone lands here from Villanova, you should be seeing one [some?] of the photos of Sen. Clinton in The Villanovan.
More to come on the media panel.
no link to a photo of Ms/Hon. Rendell? I swear I've never seen her in any context.
Posted by: acm | February 07, 2006 at 02:21 PM