I seem to recall her suggesting that terrorism was a real issue during the primaries. Tonight it was boilerplate, appearing exactly once. More interesting, she didn’t say anything about Obama’s views on terrorism. She merely tacked it on to her long litany of reasons why she ran for office:
I ran for president to renew the promise of America. To rebuild the middle class and sustain the American Dream, to provide the opportunity to those who were willing to work hard and have that work rewarded, to save for college, a home and retirement, to afford the gas and groceries and still have a little left over each month.
To promote a clean energy economy that will create millions of green-collar jobs.
To create a health care system that is universal, high quality, and affordable so that every single parent knows their children will be taken care of. .
We want to create a world class education system and make college affordable again.
To fight for an America defined by deep and meaningful equality — from civil rights to labor rights, from women’s rights to gay rights, from ending discrimination to promoting unionization to providing help for the most important job there is: caring for our families. And to help every child live up to his or her God-given potential.
To make America once again a nation of immigrants and of laws.
To restore fiscal sanity to Washington and make our government an instrument of the public good, not of private plunder.
To restore America’s standing in the world, to end the war in Iraq, bring our troops home with honor, care for our veterans and give them the services they have earned.
And to join with our allies to confront our shared challenges, from poverty and genocide to terrorism and global warming.
Most of all, I ran to stand up for all those who have been invisible to their government for eight long years.