is hilary's pal kissinger gonna show up? may as well have a fellow war criminal join her on stage

Granted, I am old, but I find Twitter exhausting.

@3
I'd love to read you on Twitter!

A shout-out to the Trades!!!! I'm verklempt....

Hate this new live slog format. Hate, hate, hate.

My son informs me that Katy Perry has 70,000,000 followers, whatever that means. Twitter?

Plus, the Clinton campaign obviously didn't steal the tunes.

This was great if you already supported her, but otherwise the heavy lifting was all Barack, Michelle, Elisabeth and Bernie in terms of outreach,

I remember when I first saw Twitter years ago at some futurist-y conference and thought "this will never take off all the impenetrable #@#@#@#@*!&^ stuff and conversations you have to search through a haystack to put together.." and now all the same crap, inexplicably popular.
(We're all tragically old here :))

So I do wonder what the live Slog was like, but damned if I'm going to wade through twitter comments to find out. Why you guys even bother with anything election related anymore is befuddling, clearly any institutional commitment to good political coverage is long gone.

Please P-L-E-A-S-E go back to simply typing in comments during the upcoming debates! There's no point whatsoever in this new format.

@7 -- I disagree. I listened to most of the speech (I didn't see it) and was impressed. It wasn't the zingers (those were good, but don't matter). Nor was it her reveling in the history of it all (although being the first female candidate for President was big, and made me a bit teary eyed). It was the personal stories -- of her -- that mattered. She is known as a policy wonk, and being tough to relate to. Cold, calculating, and one might assume, heartless.

She painted a picture that was exactly the opposite. In an hour long speech, you can't be expected to remember much, but this is what I remember: She came from a working class family; her mom was an orphan and had a huge influence on her; she has spent most of her life trying to help those who had a tough break in life (like her mom). She mentioned her religion, and how it fits in with all of that. She knows what gets results, and what is cheap talk. She does have the policy to back it up (and is proud of it) but more than that, you can see what motivates her.

Tonight wasn't about the policy details. You can read all of that online. Everyone can, but few do (because Americans are lazy). This was about explaining who she is, and why she is the way she is. I think anyone watching that speech has a lot more empathy for her, and can feel more comfortable with her being President. In that way, I think she did a great job.

Yeah, the formats pretty awful. I remember that Cover It Live software being terrible, probably even worse than this. And I seem to remember the posted comments thing that @11 suggests as being not great, though likely better than twitter embeds. There's gotta be something else doesn't there?

I gotta say, I agreed with her on a couple of points.

She told us to "Follow the Money." I think this should go for every candidate we ever elect, from Hillary to Trump. That includes her speech fees, and her Flundation income.

She said "I believe that our economy isn't working the way it should because our democracy isn't working the way it should." She's so right about that. I don't think she meant it though. Either that or she really doesn't understand it.

@14, she's a millionaire. But she cares about and works for people who aren't. Trump doesn't.

For me, this was the best part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPbUhcvD…

@15 Comedienne.