“Donald Trump, who wants to be president of the United States, is asking one of our adversaries to engage in hacking or intelligence efforts against the United States of America to affect our election”, Leon Panetta, Obama’s former Pentagon chief, said in his convention address.
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Clinton’s campaign believes Trump’s unorthodox candidacy will turn off moderate Republicans, particularly women, who worry he’s too unpredictable to take the helm in a turbulent world. “She’s ready because she knows in America we are stronger when we are together”.
President Barack Obama topped off day three of the Democratic convention with a demagogic speech that presented a rose-colored picture of America so out of touch with reality as to make the eruption of popular anger and discontent in the 2016 election incomprehensible. In this way, Obama argued that a vote for Clinton is a vote “to reject cynicism and reject fear and to summon what is best in us”, and it rang true.
American flags waved in the stands of the packed convention hall. There were persistent but scattered calls of “No more war”, but the crowd drowned them out with chants of “Hill-a-ry” and “U-S-A!”
Trump, a 70-year-old NY businessman who has never held political office, is running just ahead of Clinton in a RealClearPolitics average of recent national opinion polls. The party put its impressive political organization to work for the Vermont senator, giving him a fighting chance in a state where the political climate favored Clinton.
And she needs to convince members of her own party that she shares their sensibilities as expressed in the party platform, widely regarded as the “most progressive in party history”.
Following Obama’s pitch, Clinton took the stage with the president in a surprise appearance.
She also acknowledged the historical nature of the occasion, saying that her nomination should give hope to girls and women everywhere that their dreams can be achieved. “Are there people who are still emotional and wish we didn’t get 3.7 million more votes? I humbly accept my party’s nomination to be vice-president of the United States”, Kaine said, to thunderous applause. Later, he tweeted that Clinton’s vision is “a borderless world where working people have no power, no jobs, no safety”.
Hillary Clinton capped off a four-day convention celebration with a plea for national unity and tolerance.
“This is not your typical election”, Obama said during his fourth Democratic convention speech. Speaking on the same night as Obama and Biden, Kaine had a high bar to cross.
Trump has hammered Clinton as untrustworthy and cast America as a place where security threats abound and law and order are breaking down.
“Hillary is tough. Hillary is courageous, she will fight to make our families safer”, Giffords said to the audience, who gave her a standing ovation. President Bill Clinton watched from a seat on the convention floor, beaming with pride and repeatedly leaping to his feet.
Obama’s speech garnered a great deal of attention as one of the last major addresses of his presidency. On Wednesday evening, they caused a press scrum as rough as any rugby match, heckled the former secretary of defense and then, staged a mostly silent protest of vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine.
The pin in question has a single blue star against a white background outlined in red.
‘Anyone who threatens our values – whether fascists, or communists, or jihadists, or home-grown demagogues – will always fail in the end’.
The Trumps apparently still haven’t gotten over Melania Trump’s plagiarism of Michelle Obama from last week’s GOP convention and how it stole much of the spotlight from Donald Trump Sr.
“Tonight, I ask you to do for Hillary Clinton what you did for me”. “You have to lend your ideas, lend your talent, lend your expertise”.
“Violence is not the answer”, Dallas Sheriff Lupe Valdez said.
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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg – the Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent curiosity of the Acela corridor – delivered a billionaire-on-billionaire assault on Trump’s business record.
