But his witness on her behalf also reflects a profound change in our politics since a 2008 campaign in which Mr. Obama and Ms. Clinton represented very different views of how the system works, how change happens and how progressivism should be understood.
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When President Barack Obama embraced Hillary Clinton at the end of his rousing speech at his last Democratic National Convention as President of the United States, it was a fascinating bookend from 2008 when the then rivals battled hard to reach an uneasy detente.
Obama’s strength, charisma and resilience were as evident as ever during his speech, as was the feeling that so many aren’t ready to let him go.
“Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military in your command, you can’t make snap decisions”.
Kaine made a case that Americans should trust Clinton.
The president went hard in the paint as he went head-on after Trump, a contentious candidate who was most recently in the news for encouraging the Russians (or Chinese, he wasn’t picky) to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails.
I’m talking about the gent who took the stage late Wednesday night at the Democratic Convention and brought the house down.
America has always been great.
In the president’s speech, he contrasted the vision of former President Ronald Reagan, who called American “a shining city on a hill” with Trump’s vision of American: “a divided crime scene that only he can fix”. ‘But she knows her stuff.
Conservative writer Jennifer Rubin says it well: GOP nominee Trump, “fanning the flames of fear and resentment in us” by describing our chaotic and risky world, “tells us that “Nobody knows the system better than me, which I alone can fix”.
“Think about everything you learn as a child, no matter where you are raised”, Biden said with evident disgust.
The Wednesday lineup of speakers, including former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Clinton running mate Sen.
“Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin”, Obama said in an excerpt of the interview that will air in full on Wednesday.
It’s a theme Democrats will repeat into the fall, and the GOP nominee has shown a penchant for furnishing new openings to his adversaries to reprise their critiques.
“That’s the Hillary I know”, Obama said, weaving in some of Bill Clinton’s moving panegyric to his wife Tuesday night. The Clinton campaign manager on Saturday accused the Russian government of seeking to tamper with a US election by leaking hacked emails from the DNC as a way to hurt Clinton’s bid for the White House. The president used his speech to defend himself while commending Clinton in the process.
Kaine said his son would “protect and defend the very North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies that Donald Trump now says he wants to abandon”. “This right now is the greatest country on earth”.
Obama also called out our would-be dictator-in-chief by saying Americans “don’t looked to be ruled”. This is a topic he returns to again and again, noting how important participation in elections can be to see change at all levels of government.
President Obama likes to say he’s run his last campaign.
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Clinton is not a carbon copy of Obama, of course. “Through every victory and every setback”, he declared, “I’ve insisted that change is never easy, and never quick, that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime”. “We need to make sure that Wall Street can never wreck Main Street ever again”.
