Hillary's gaffe-filled Roosevelt Island re-launch

Hillary Clinton’s re-launch speech yesterday was as wooden as ever. Has she been seeing a speech coach that is an android? The implicit message of needing a re-launch was that the original launch was a dud. So you’d think that the campaign would go all out to get the second go at it completely right. But they bungled some obvious points. First of all, the holy grail of Democrat politics: diversity. Notice anything about the crowd behind Hillary?

Then there’s the embarrassment of preparing for a big crowd that never showed up. Twenty minutes into her speech, here is the overflow area prepared for the big crowds that weren’t: Clinton's campaign set aside this area for overflow w jumbotron. Here it is 20 min to speech: pic.twitter.com/MUUhZJFiD0 — Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) June 13, 2015 MSNBC, reflecting the left’s preference for someone of the hard left, was cutting on the gaffes: And then there’s the matter of reinforcing the campaign theme of one of her leading GOP opponents.