If you're asking this question, you're taking convention rhetoric too seriously.
With that said, hearing this sound-bite from Michelle Obama in 2016 was extremely amusing for those of us who remembered Clinton's 2008 primary campaign, or, quite honestly, anything else about her political history. HRC has her virtues as a politician, but "going high" is not among them. (Of course the same applies to the national party and most state affiliates.)
Even if we set that reality aside, there's an air of undeserved self-congratulations to this line. You could hardly find a better approximation of how the Democratic Party continues to come across. And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Whether or not going high is a sound political strategy, making it your primary appeal to voters is not.
oh absolutely.not that i really want to pile on clinton.i find all that pretty tiring
