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Hillary Clinton's speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention It was the love convention. That four letter word was emblazoned on official merchandise, mentioned nightly in speeches and sung by artists from Carole King to Katy Perry throughout the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. The love motif was supposed to present a contrast to last week’s dark festival of rage in Cleveland, and to rebrand Hillary Clinton. No longer would she be the mendacious witch created by almost 30 years of GOP vilification. Now she would transform into the warm and caring person her close friends say exists behind the guarded public persona. It worked, but perhaps not in the historic way some women had long imagined. Hillary Clinton officially became the first major-party female presidential nominee, and yet the moment passed with little more fanfare than if she had been another white male. “Love trumps hate,” she said in her rousing and well-received acceptance speech on Thursday. The zinger was imp