Subject: Re: new language in Clinton message
From: Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 18:01:08 -0500

I've actually been very sensitive to this "whole AGAIN" point and have been
leaving that out for the reason he mentions.  But sometimes she just says
it because the rhythm is better.

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 5:42 PM, John Podesta <[email-masked]> wrote:

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> From: *Zeldin, Michael* <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thursday, March 3, 2016
> Subject: new language in Clinton message
> To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
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> John,
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> See yellow highlight below.  This is really good.  I hope my comments
> helped shape this message.
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> The one thing I heard in her super Tuesday speech that I thought that I
> would avoid is that she said: “whether we like it or not, we are in this
> all together…”    I would advise eliminating the “like it or not”  part and
> just say that “in order to make America whole we must be in this
> altogether.”
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> One other small nit is that she says “we need to make America whole
> *again*”.  I am not sure when America ever was whole. So thought might be
> given to saying something like: “it is time to make America whole; where no
> one is left out; where all have equal opportunity, where all lives matter,
> etc”
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> My two cents.
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> Hillary Clinton lost no time transitioning into a general-election
> message, positioning herself as the opposite of Donald Trump in an
> optimistic speech threaded with themes of "love and kindness.”
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> “Despite what you hear, we don’t need to make America great again. America
> has never stopped being great,” Clinton told supporters after her big
> primary victory in South Carolina on Saturday night.
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> “But we do need to make America whole again," she said to loud applause.
> "Instead of building walls, we need to be tearing down barriers.”
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> “We have so much to look forward to," Clinton said. "There is no doubt in
> my mind that America’s best years are ahead of us. We have to believe that,
> we have to work for that.”
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> She’s come a long way from her campaign message of "Pick me because I have
> experience."
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> Clinton mentioned the five mothers by name that she recognized at CNN’s
> Democratic town hall on Tuesday -- five African-American women who have
> lost their children to gun violence or at the hands of police.
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> “They have not been broken or embittered. Instead, they have channeled
> their sorrow into strategy, and their mourning into a movement. And they
> are reminding us of something deep and powerful in the American spirit,”
> Clinton said.
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> “When we stand together, there is no barrier too big to break," she said.
> "Tomorrow, this campaign goes national.”
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