Following Clinton on stage, Obama kicked off his remarks by taking on Trump’s attempt to move away from his long history of raising doubts about the president’s origins.
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Trump, who for years advanced the notion that Obama was not born in the United States, sought to put the issue behind him this week by acknowledging the president’s citizenship – but instead re-ignited a firestorm by falsely claiming that Clinton sparked the controversy in 2008. “It’s a bad thing that’s going on in our world, in our country and we are going to get tough and smart and vigilant”.
Referring to Clinton, who served as his Secretary of State, he said: ‘This is somebody who is smart, who is tough and, most importantly, who cares deeply about making sure that this country works for everybody and not just a few. “In other breaking news, the world is round, not flat Lord”.
“We can’t let Barack Obama’s legacy fall into the hands of someone who doesn’t understand that, whose unsafe divisive vision for our country will drag us backwards”, she said, though she never mentioned Trump’s name.
“When I hear folks saying they’re not inspired this this election, I disagree”.
President Barack Obama on Sunday suggested sexism in society could be hurting Hillary Clinton’s White House bid.
Still, she added, “the last eight years has reminded us that democracy does not begin and end on Election Day”. We understood the power of the symbol. The U.S. has told invited countries they must show up with significant commitments in hand to resettle and support more refugees.
“People say, ‘It doesn’t matter because Hillary Clinton will get 90 percent of the African-American vote, ‘” commented Charlie King, a prominent New York Democrat, speaking to the New York Times. So we’ve taken that responsibility seriously. “And I’ve been so blessed to have a wife and a partner on this journey who makes it look so easy”, he said.
We just had bombs go off last night.
The first lawsuit occurred in 1973 on the base of racial discrimination as Trump’s company appeared to be preemptively refusing to rent apartments to black people in Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island.
‘He shows no interest in even gaining the rudimentary knowledge required to make really hard decisions on a day-to-day basis.
“We can’t let Barack Obama’s legacy fall into the hands of someone who doesn’t understand that, whose risky divisive vision for our country will drag us backwards”.
Clinton accepted the group’s “Trailblazer Award” on Saturday night for becoming the first female presidential candidate for a major political party.
That frustration has been particularly acute with black voters who tell Obama they’re saddened by the end of his presidency but aren’t enthusiastically rallying behind the candidate who would safeguard most of his work.
Wimes she didn’t mince her words in responding to the president in an op-ed, “No, President Obama, Black America Doesn’t Owe You a Vote for Hillary!”.
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But she has also announced a strategy to reboot her campaign: a shift to positive themes instead of negatives about Trump.
