“No looking the other way”.
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Patricia Smith, the mother of information management officer Sean Smith who was killed during the attack on the U.S. Special Mission Compound in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, gave a no-holds-barred speech that firmly laid the blame for her son’s death on Hillary Clinton. Among those who say they’d rather see Sanders become the Democratic nominee, 79% now back Clinton, up slightly from 74% in June, while 74% of those who want someone other than Trump to be the Republican nominee now back him, up from 67% in June.
In that regard, as president, she said, “I will bring the full weight of the law to bear in making sure that those who kill a police officer are brought to justice”. Geist and Tiegen maintain that they and other security contractors were given an order to “stand down” by a Central Intelligence Agency officer when they sought to come to the rescue in Benghazi. The shooting, the fourth high-profile deadly encounter involving police over the past two weeks, added to the tensions across the country between the black community and police.
Clinton also acknowledged that the violence has gone both ways, pointing out the socio-economic disparities that have plagued the African-American community to the almost uniformly black audience. When black men – in pinstripes – trying to hold on to their respectability in their Mercedes, in their BMWs, with their Hampton and Howard and Yale degrees – maybe they understand like I do: “Outside of these pinstripes, you’re just another brother!”
Geist and Tiegen, the former Marines who fought in Benghazi, also focused on the lack of security – and blamed Clinton.
250 miles away from Clinton’s speech, Republicans were kicking off their convention in Cleveland with an opening night theme of “Make America Safe Again”.
“Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason”, Baldasaro said Tuesday on “The Kuhner Report”, a conservative radio show hosted by Jeff Kuhner.
When it comes to the Commander in Chief, New York State voters approve 56-40 percent of the job President Barack Obama is doing, his best score in more than three years.
An Associated Press-GfK poll this month found that three-quarters of voters say their pick for president is motivated by a desire to cast their ballot against Clinton or Trump. Driven by a 3-1 lead in New York City, Democrat Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump 47-35 percent among all New York State voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
Clinton is in Cincinnati as part of a multi-day trip across the country while Republicans gather in Cleveland for the Republican National Convention. “You’ll have to get registered and get out to vote in November”. Voter registration events will be held at the Islamic Center of Akron’s Eid celebration in OH; a bilingual day camp in Hazelton, Pennsylvania; Detroit’s Eastern Market; and a campaign office opening in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the American Federation of Teachers convention at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, Monday, July 18, 2016.
