I've noticed that my 2-year-old granddaughter's speech is not developing properly.
Even in reminiscing about her new granddaughter, Charlotte, in both speeches, Clinton somewhat darkly asked the crowd to imagine what kind of opportunities their children and grandchildren would have if Republicans came to power.
Some of it is too ornamental, too precious, particularly the speeches delivered by the granddaughter, Flo (or is it Floe?), a wholesome nymph who suddenly appears on the ice, still pink from a sauna session.
Whiting himself was influenced by TS Eliot, not least in a speech where Southman's granddaughter talks ominously of "a call from another room".
Then Vietnam veteran Sgt. Gerald Brown gave a very moving speech about losing a granddaughter to respiratory disease.
The minister reads through The Lord's My Shepherd and a granddaughter struggles through tears to make a speech recalling a shared love of bingo.
But at the end of each speech, Clinton turned to her granddaughter and her own fears about the country Charlotte might face as a young adult if Republicans gain more power.
After her speech, Corin brought Yolanda King, the granddaughter of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the stage.
She made no speech, but blew kisses to her granddaughter after Ms. Schiff toasted her as "truly an amazing woman" who had inspired thousands with "her charm and grace, her grit and determination, and her idealism".
"The difference between my daughter and my granddaughter is that my daughter had great difficulty learning speech skills," Henry said.
In one speech, she quoted her 6-year-old granddaughter, who said she wanted to be a chief judge when she grew up.
