Hillary Clinton: Then and Now
For the record, a study in Clinton speeches — eight long years apart
’If we can blast 50 women into space, we will someday launch a woman into the White House,’ Hillary Clinton told supporters in 2008 as she abandoned her White House bid. Eight years to the day in Brooklyn, she claimed the Democratic nomination with a plan to do just that. Word clouds are passé, we know, but we thought these were still worth a study — drawn from speeches eight years apart:
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