But it also came with a warning: That last glass ceiling isn’t shattered yet and Republican Donald Trump is a formidable foe.
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Trump, a 70-year-old NY businessman with no experience in political office, has hammered Clinton as untrustworthy and cast America as a place where security threats abound and law and order are breaking down.
“When they go low, we go high”, Obama said of the criticism her family has faced in office.
And when she does, there’s one question that comes up again and again: What exactly would we call him?
The president’s aides have said one of his motivations for aggressively campaigning for Clinton is his belief that Trump would spend his initial weeks in office undoing policies adopted since 2009.
“She’s not always flashy. And there are better speech-makers”, he said. “But she knows her stuff”. By contrast, many eminent Republicans were absent from the party convention that nominated Trump for the White House last week.
What Obama won’t do: Mention Republican nominee Donald Trump by name more than a few times. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen.
He touched off a firestorm by encouraging Russian Federation to meddle in the presidential campaign – even as he dismissed suggestions from Obama and other Democrats that Moscow was already acting on the Republican’s behalf.
Clinton’s campaign fired back: “This has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent”, spokesman Jake Sullivan said. He had a 2-percentage-point lead over Clinton in a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday, the first time he has been ahead in this survey since early May. “That you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you’re going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them, and even if you don’t agree with them”. “And it’s a popular president”. “And that is our friend Hillary Clinton”.
“I want someone with the proven strength to persevere, someone who knows this job and takes it seriously, someone who understands that the issues a president faces are not black-and-white and can not be boiled down to 140 characters”, she said. On the heels of reports that Russian Federation may have hacked Democratic Party emails, Trump said, “Russia, if you’re listening”, it would be desirable to see Moscow find and publish the thousands of emails Clinton says she deleted during her years as secretary of state.
Click “play” to view the First Lady’s speech from Monday.
Early on, The First Lady officially endorsed Hillary Clinton and proudly declared, “I’m with her” to a standing ovation.
President Barack Obama also shared his support for his wife on Twitter. Vice-President Joe Biden will deliver his valedictory.
Obama and Trump have an unusually acrimonious personal history for a president and one of his potential successors.
Trump has cast himself as the “law-and-order” candidate and promised to get tough on terrorists.
Of listening to each other when crisis strikes.
Vice President Joe Biden warned of Donald Trump’s cynicism and lack of compassion, saying, America can not elect a man “who has no plan whatsoever to make us safe”.
Obama, who beat Clinton in the 2008 campaign for the Democratic nomination, will be speaking 12 years to the day since he gave a keynote address, as an IL state senator, to the Democratic convention in 2004, which launched him on the national stage. The presidential schedule for the days leading up to the remarks was largely cleared of events, aside from regular meetings with the defense and Treasury secretaries.
OBAMA: When they set off for their first day at their new school, I will never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls, just 7 and 10 years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those big men with guns.
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Obama offered a preview of his evening speech in an interview with NBC News broadcast on Wednesday.
