Subject: Hillary Speech
From: Brent Budowsky <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Roy Spence <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 16:52:55 -0400

I'd suggest Hillary prepare a major speech with the theme of "Why I Run", similar
to JFK's original New Frontier speech.   To be delivered at a venue such as the
JFK Library.  It can be a direct campaign speech or a panoramic vision of the challenges and future of the nation that is not overly campaign linked but serves
the same purpose.  No polls, no focus groups, no positioning, something big and
exciting and uplifting that is her raison d'etre for public life and transcends the hourly
news cycles and daily email updates....

I hope she is thinking in terms of what would be her New Deal, New Frontier,
Great Society etc....something big and bold that paints a portrait of an America
under a Hillary Clinton presidency.....

It need not be rushed, when it is ready it is ready....when I send you my second pope
column of the week, my first was a call for Francis to be awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize, my column in The Hill tomorrow ahead of the joint session is answering George
Will's attack on the pope in the Sunday Post....but my litany of big issues the pope
champions with Biblical references wouldn't be the worst road map, issue by issue,
what a panoramic program might begin to look like....my only reference to HRC in
the column was tied to Obama and Gore and the pope on climate change....but
the broader issue schematic in the column offers a nice version of a policy roadmap
that can be expanded into more panoramic terms for the kind of New Frontier big
picture speech I believe she needs to give.....Brent

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