“I think she’s felt liberated to talk more openly about race and class”, Slevin says. The speech was also about how America is “the greatest country” already and doesn’t need to be “made” into anything else.
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“How do we insist that the hateful language they hear from public figures on tv does not represent the true spirit of this country?” “When they go low, we go high”, she said. A leader who is worthy of my girls’ promise, and all our kids promise.
Trump has long sought to scoop up disaffected voters who feel Sanders – a self-described democratic socialist – was denied a fair shot at the nomination.
Mrs Obama, who has spent almost eight years in the White House avoiding political fights, took numerous swipes at Mr Trump, while avoiding mentioning him by name. But every child who needs a champion. “In the end it s going to be either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump and it s not even a close call”, said Paul Czisny, a 57-year-old delegate from Wisconsin who had supported Sanders. Several Twitter users said the speech brought them to tears, while others marveled at its positive tone in an election year marked by blunt exchanges. She was greeted by a huge chorus of cheers that echoed across Wells Fargo Center, and she delivered a ringing endorsement of Clinton as a parent and a potential president. Fighting for children’s health care as First Lady and for quality child care in the Senate.
“Hillary did not pack up and go home”. That was a big priority for her husband when he was president, as well as for former Sen.
The uproar led to the resignation of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schulz, DNC chairwoman, on day one of what is perhaps the most important week for a person with her job title.
By embracing style in the way she has, Obama’s been able to not only put her sophisticated, sensible style on display, but get people talking about it too.
But now Cleaver hopes he can share with a nationwide audience why he believes Hillary Clinton is not only the most qualified candidate ever to run for president, but also one of the most unfairly demonized. She never takes the easy way out. “That is what Barack and I think about every day as we try to guide and protect our girls through the challenges of this unusual life in the spotlight”. I want someone with the proven strength to persevere.
“The issues a president faces are not black and white, and can not be boiled down into 140 characters”, the first lady said.
“When you have the nuclear codes at you fingertips and military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions”, she said. “You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out”. You need to be steady and well-informed. I don’t even think many men are even conscious of it. They have words for women like that and it starts with a ‘b.’ U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri.
“Hillary Clinton is an impressive woman”. And that’s why, in this election, I’m with her.
“That is how we have always moved this country forward – by all of us coming together on behalf of our children”. “She is a very, very, very caring person who is sensitive to other people, and the reason that friends last for decades, for a lifetime, is because of the way (she) treats you”.
“I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my two black daughters playing with their dogs on the White House lawn”, she said.
And so, as Michelle Obama took the stage in Denver at the Democratic National Convention, she had a mission to win over the skeptics, by sharing her personal story. “Because this right now is the greatest country on earth”.
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“As my daughters prepare to set out into the world, I want a leader who is worthy of that truth”. “And a vital part of that movement is making absolutely sure Hillary Clinton is our next president of the United States”.
