The Trump campaign says that Melania admires Michelle Obama, and mentioned some of her favorite lines from the First Lady’s 2008 speech to one of her speechwriting assistants. He said that Clinton understands that things are not black and white in this diverse nation, that compromise rather than demonizing is necessary in order to get things done in a democracy, and that we must fight for our principles and common ground. I know Hillary won’t relent until ISIL is destroyed. And I promise you, our strength, our greatness, does not depend on Donald Trump. “We have to decide whether we’re going to work together so we can all rise together”. “Does anybody believe him?”
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In stark contrast to the sometime dark undertones of the Republican National Convention, Obama offered optimism, at times evoking Ronald Reagan who once called America “a shining city on a hill”. “The president didn’t have one jihadi in mind; the president didn’t have fascist in mind; the president didn’t have one domestic demagogue in mind”.
“I’m a Muslim, of course, but you can’t have people going around just shooting people and killing people just in the name of Islam”, Malik says, according to Reuters. “I will lose everything”.
At every convention, we’re told this is the most important election of our lifetimes, and people cheer, and the pundits nod, and then we await the next, even more vital election.
It was about Hillary Clinton. And we discuss the importance of crafting great speeches in the modern age. “It will change their lives”.
Later, Biden touched on the violence around the country and the world.
As Trump’s popularity has risen, Obama has continued to allude to the lessons he learned on the basketball court.
“The Donald is not really a plans guy”, Obama said.
Kaine said in his speech: “We better elect the candidate who’s proven she can be trusted with the job”, Kaine said.
She included a lengthy tribute to Bernie Sanders, whom she praised for having “put economic and social justice issues front and center, where they belong”. America is already strong. At face value, the man is still worthy of mockery, Obama seemed to say on Wednesday, but Trump’s arguments have captivated so many that they must also be taken seriously.
“Sure, we have real anxieties – about paying the bills, protecting our kids, caring for a sick parent”, Obama said. We get frustrated with political gridlock, worry about racial divisions; are shocked and saddened by the madness of Orlando or Nice. And that person, Obama said, was one who could take on ISIS, who could take on the Russians, who was ready to deal with guns leaving schoolchildren dead in their classroom and the madness that leaves cops dead in the streets. And she promised a campaign rooted in a moral challenge to her opponent: “Yes, the world is watching what we do”.
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PHILADELPHIA Safety, reality and money were three of the big subjects as the Democratic Party started rolling out the big speeches Wednesday night. Cronkite said it in 1998 in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “This is some kind of a resurgent Puritanism that suggests that we all should live by someone else’s moral standards”. “The threats are too great”.
