The pool camera recording the speech showed Michelle Obama rise to her feet immediately after her husband said this line.
Advertisement
Vice-President Joe Biden and House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Republican, who sat right behind Mr. Obama through the one-hour speech, represented the extreme emotions that Mr Obama evokes – adulation among supporters and total rejection among critics.
In her response, while criticizing President Obama on a number of issues, Haley also made a series of apparent references to Trump, including calling on Americans to ignore “the angriest voices” on the subject of immigration.
He also took aim at the Republican presidential frontrunners who have exploited the fears and prejudices of their right-wing, white base by resorting to xenophobic attacks on Muslims during their campaigns. His “call to action” was not directed at the Republican Congress, which would be unlikely to heed his policies by the end of the term, but rather to America as a whole, and it is important that millennials especially pay attention. How did Republicans respond to that? Marco Rubio, who was in the chamber, said the president was downplaying the threat posed by ISIS.
Speaking at the University of Nebraska in Ohama, Mr. Obama railed against candidates “peddling this fiction” that America is getting weaker and that the solution is “looking meaner, talking tougher, carpet bombing wherever we want”.
INSKEEP: Are the Democrats running for president running on the president’s record? It was a short sentence.
Tap here to read the speech.
HILLARY CLINTON: It’s time to pick a side.
To help Americans prepare for the new economy, he called for a continued reform of the USA education and training system, strengthening social security and medicare, as well as adjusting the role of government to make sure the system is not rigged in favor of the wealthiest and biggest corporations. “The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity, and our openness, and the way we respect every faith”. I’m Hillary Clinton, and I approve this message.
Advertisement
Tom Reed says he can work with the president on a few things like advanced manufacturing. So on the trail, Sanders is not as optimistic as the president on the economy. “That’s why I’m going to push to change the way we manage our oil and coal resources, so that they better reflect the costs they impose on taxpayers and our planet”.
