Bill Clinton speech caps Hillary's historic nomination day

Washington

WITH the historic nomination of Hillary Clinton and the cooling embers of the Bernie Sanders revolution, Democrats gathered in Philadelphia hoped they had turned a corner on Tuesday. The momentous day was capped by a rousing Bill Clinton speech that attempted to humanise a woman who's been defined and redefined over two and a half decades in the national spotlight.

In the most extended applause line of his speech, the former president said Republicans are running against a "cartoon" version of Mrs Clinton, but "earlier today, you nominated the real one". His address attempted to counter his wife's main political vulnerabilities, from being seen as untrustworthy by large swaths of the American public to a perception that she's too close to the established political system to meaningfully change it. "This woman has never been satisfied with the status quo on anything. She has always wanted to move the ball forward. That is who she is," Mr Clinton said. "She's a change-maker," he added, a label he used several times.