In Wednesday night’s speech – one of the most passionate and personal of his presidency – Obama used the podium in Philadelphia, the birthplace of the United States, to evoke the principles of the country’s founders and “We, the People” to reject Trump’s dystopian view of America and the Republican nominee’s polarising campaign to capitalise electorally on a divided country.
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As for the “exhausting” part, Leonard noted that Hoosier delegates left their hotel rooms before 7:30 a.m. Wednesday for meetings, classes, rallies and convention speeches and did not return until 2 a.m. Thursday.
The Republican presidential nominee, who laid out his own vision for the USA last week at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, said Clinton’s “vision” for the world is “borderless” and “working people” will “have no power, no jobs, no safety”. Neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump have spent much time discussing public K-12 education issues during the primary season. “How does she keep going amid the sound and the fury of politics?'” Chelsea said. Gabby Giffords and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, to Vice President Joe Biden and Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine. A separate pre-convention controversy over hacked Democratic Party emails showing favoritism for Clinton in the primary threatens to deepen the perception that Clinton prefers to play by her own rules.
In her address to the Democratic National Convention last night, Clinton presented herself as a candidate of inclusion, describing herself as someone who “will be a president for Democrats, Republicans and independents”. She spoke quietly, deliberately and often affectingly, particularly when discussing her mother, who was abandoned by her parents and “was saved by the kindness of others”. “I get it. Some people just don’t know what to make of me”, she said, offering a testimonial to her parents and their values, and her Methodist faith as her bedrock.
Retired Marine General John R. Allen, a former commander in Afghanistan, was one of several military leaders and service members who have taken the stage to vouch for Clinton’s national security experience.
“No one has worse judgement than Hillary Clinton – corruption and devastation follows her wherever she goes”, he said in another tweet.
She made clear that she had no intention of ceding economically discontented voters to Trump.
“Every generation of Americans has come together to make our country freer, fairer and stronger”, she declared.
“He wants to divide us – from the rest of the world, and from each other”. “Do they want to take us before the Civil Rights Act?”
What we heard in Cleveland last week wasn’t particularly Republican and it sure wasn’t conservative. “We’re not going back, we’re going forward”.
The former USA secretary of state and first lady said the slogan “stronger together” that has been featured in her campaign was a guiding principle for the country, helping to define a future with a healthy economy “for everyone, not just those at the top”. The comments were widely criticized, even by Republicans, who accused Trump of suggesting that a foreign country intervene in a USA election. She aggressively challenged Republican Donald Trump’s ability to do the same. To Democrats, Trump’s comments this week about Russian Federation underscored their concerns about him becoming commander in chief.
“Don’t believe anyone who says, ‘I alone can fix it, ‘” Clinton said.
His targets? A few choice people who criticized him from the stage at the Democratic National Convention.
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“Justice is not a zero-sum game”.
