This is in part why the first line of his speech last night – “in the spring of 1971 I met a girl” – was the subject of so much criticism.
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“I hope my headline (from the speech) is that the president of the United States is profoundly optimistic about America’s future and is 100 percent convinced that Hillary Clinton can be a great president”, Obama said in an interview with NBC News that aired on Wednesday.
The argument about Clinton’s readiness fits neatly into the bigger case Democrats will make on the convention’s third night in Philadelphia, with a lineup that also includes Vice President Joe Biden, former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and other former military officials.
Sanders argued that “any objective observer” would choose to elect Hillary-because of her likely Supreme Court choices, her understanding of the science of climate change, her belief in expanding access to health care and education and economic opportunity. He traced their more than 40-year political and personal partnership in deep detail.
And though most of the night was pitched nearly as a reintroduction of Mrs Clinton, Ms Albright did land some punches on Mr Donald Trump. Well, not there, exactly, but about a mile away from the convention floor, which is where the “free speech zone” for the convention has been set up.
Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of a matchup between Republican and Democratic nominees Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is the disparity of person vs. persona each presents. The dire warnings about a Donald Trump presidency.
They are anxious because when he doesn’t have enough to do, he tends to get in trouble, and we all know in excruciating detail what that means. “She backed President Obama’s decision to go after Osama Bin Laden”. “One is real and the other is made up”.
Hillary Clinton made history Tuesday by officially being nominated as the first female Democratic presidential candidate at the party’s national convention in Philadelphia.
Clinton’s convention has been awash in history, with energized delegates celebrating her formal nomination as the first woman to ever lead a major political party in the general election. A Clinton delegate, she thinks the party has done a good job of including the Sanders supporters at the convention, but realizes not all of them agree. Hundreds of Sanders delegates donned gags, held up signs, and raised their fists in silent protest as they left the arena en masse and staged a sit-in inside the media center tent adjacent to the building. That’s why I chose to remain neutral in the primary in New Hampshire until after the primary was over and the delegates had been chosen. There were no serious solutions to pressing problems – just the fanning of resentment, and blame, and anger, and hate. This time, Clinton shattered the glass ceiling she couldn’t crack in 2008. “So she’s chosen someone from the corporate wing of the party”.
And he has said previously in this campaign, without any evidence, said that USA enemies “almost certainly” have accessed Clinton’s emails and are using them to blackmail her. Police and the Secret Service immediately arrested four protesters, who will be charged with entering a restricted area.
Former president Jimmy Carter spoke to delegates in a video, saying these are “perilous times” and the nation needs someone with a “strong heart”, a deep understanding of issues and a “steady hand”.
Clinton and Planned Parenthood Action Fund President Cecile Richards watch the first night of the convention Monday..
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Few things proved more controversial during this Democratic primary than superdelegates – the elite class of Democratic presidential delegates who are not bound to vote the way their states voted in primaries and caucuses, and may vote however they choose.
