He was referring to Barack Obama of course.
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Those boos and interruptions were meaningful because their goal was precisely to warn Hillary Clinton against any pivot to the center – to threaten her with the possibility that the slightest betrayal of the Sanders agenda might lead a significant number of the 13 million Sanders voters to stay home, or vote for third-party candidates or even Donald Trump. It’s also Barack Obama. It culminated with Clinton making a surprise appearance on stage to greet Obama with a long embrace, an nearly unimaginable image eight years ago when they battled for the Democratic nomination. Hillary Clinton has a complicated row to hoe if she’s going to dig up the votes she’s going to need to prevail in November.
But the strongest part of his speech came at the end ― when, after painting Trump as somebody who doesn’t believe in America, Obama reasserted his own belief that democracy can work and that, given the chance, they will make the right choices for the country. But she needs the Obama coalition even though she’s no Obama. That is going to be her real challenge.
She’s capable. She’s seasoned. She’s ready because of her experience. But she’s not Obama. Her big speech tomorrow night is much anticipated but his speech was something people really looked forward to.
Obama said Democrats must get out and vote – then hold Democrats “accountable until they get the job done”.
However, Obama’s speech would focus more “on how Secretary Clinton has the judgment, the toughness and the intellect to succeed him in the Oval Office”, Schultz said.
The former first lady, USA senator and secretary of state will step out of the shadows of presidents past and present on Thursday for her chance to persuade Americans that she is the best choice to helm a nation looking for a new era of leadership.
In an April 24 email she received with an article describing the ways Sanders felt the DNC was undermining his campaign, she wrote back, “Spoken like someone who has never been a member of the Democratic Party and has no understanding of what we do”.
For four years, Clinton traveled the globe pushing Obama’s foreign policies as America’s top diplomat.
“The threats are too great, the times are too uncertain, to elect Donald Trump as president of the United States”, he said. But he did something quite remarkable.
In so many ways out country is more prosperous in the last 8 years.
“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 per cent convinced that Hillary Clinton can be a great president”, Obama said in an interview with NBC News broadcast on Wednesday, ahead of his evening speech.
There was unbelievable grace in that performance. Clinton has said those emails were private. Clinton match him step-for-step – “backward in heels”. It was a powerful reminder of all the extra hurdles Clinton has had to run to prove herself just as worthy as men running for the same political office.
Despite the boos and jeers by supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders early on at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, the party managed a show of unity at the event to formally nominate Hillary Clinton as its candidate for the US presidential election. The noise-makers decided they were going to make it as hard as possible for the supposed “change-maker”.
At the convention on Tuesday night, all speakers talked about Hillary Clinton’s historical achievement but one – Bill Clinton.
Trump responded Wednesday by saying it is Obama and Clinton who are not prepared to lead the country.
But she understood she has no greater asset in this election than Obama. That is just who she is. That he is not on the ballot, she is.
“She’s not always flashy”.
The Democratic National Convention concludes tonight with Hillary Clinton taking the stage seeking to win over voters who have turned against her as the campaign season has unfolded.
“We’ve been consumed with crisis after crisis after crisis”, he said.
Now, eight years ago, Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. “I think that I’ve got a pretty clear-eyed sense of both her strengths and her weaknesses”.
“For this time, Hillary is uniquely qualified to seize the opportunities and reduce the risks we face, and she is still the best darn change- maker I have ever known”, he told a rapt crowd at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday.
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, meanwhile, said he was not a Democrat or a Republican but appeared at the convention to demolish his fellow billionaire’s reputation in business.
She was a little surprised, but ultimately said yes – because she knew that what was at stake was bigger than either of us.
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Whether that spirit, that fire will persist into the campaign is anyone’s guess.
