Mixed Reactions to Hillary Clinton’s First Campaign Rally in NY

“I’m not running for some Americans, but for all Americans,” Hillary Clinton confidently exclaimed to an assemblance of 5,500 people on Saturday at her largest campaign event to date on Roosevelt Island in New York.

The female force for the Democratic party responded to fallacies her opponents have thrown her way, like the fact that by the time Mrs. Clinton would take office (if she won) in January of 2017, she would be 69 years old. This has led republicans skeptical of Clinton’s preparedness and qualifications to formulate the notion that Hillary cannot, “Stand for change and modernity.”

To battle these accusations, Mrs. Clinton gave personal anecdotes in her speech about her support for the LGBT community along with ridicule for the Republican party, staring into the eyes of thousands down below as she assured, “Republicans turn their backs on gay people who love each other.”

In the most dense portion of her rally, Clinton delved into which policies were of the upmost importance to her, like college affordability and rewriting of the tax code so that it, “Rewards hard work at home rather than corporations stashing profits overseas,” she brazenly concluded, failing to mention how or when she would undertake these policy feats and address their inexplicable cost.

Amongst the remainder of her political endeavors, including pre-kindergarden, paid family leave, equal pay for women, and incentives for companies to provide profit sharing to employees, Mrs. Clinton battled claims of her already accumulated wealth making her aloof to the average American citizen by saying, “My candidacy is for the factory workers and food servers who stand on their feet all day, for the nurses who work the night shift, for the truckers who drive for hours.”

As the picturesque skyline of New York City beckoned in the distance with the new One World Trade building toppling the island, a constant reminder of the preciousness of feeling safe domestically and abroad was in the air as Clinton failed to denote any specifics along the lines of foreign policy, leaving her supporters with an, “As your president, I’ll do whatever it takes to keep American’s safe.”

The event established a certain level of extravagance that Clinton’s campaign had seemed to be previously lacking, and while others deemed the rally a huge success for the former first lady, Republican National Committee Spokeswoman Allison Moore summed the speech up as, “Chock-full of hypocritical attacks, partisan rhetoric, and ideas from the past that led to a sluggish economy.”