While Obama recalled that Clinton had “been in the room” for crucial foreign policy decisions like mounting the military operation that killed Osama Bin Laden, Biden called her the most experienced candidate on national security ever to run for the office.
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Vice President Joe Biden leaned on his personal relationship with Hillary Clinton Wednesday evening to make the case for her candidacy, arguing the “times are too uncertain” to elect her rival, Donald Trump. “Period”, said Biden of the Republican nominee. Biden said he “doesn’t have a clue” how to govern. The delegates erupted into a chant, “Not a clue!” In fact, Biden was born and raised in the same hardscrabble Scranton, Pa., that Trump visited just hours before Biden’s speech at the Democratic convention. “What we heard was a deeply pessimistic vision of a country where we turn against each other, and turn away from the rest of the world”, he said.
In prepared remarks, Kaine planned to call Trump “a slick-talking, empty-promising, self-promoting, one-man wrecking crew”.
He also addressed Michelle Obama, saying, “I don’t know where you are kid, but you are incredible”.
Biden added: “I mean this from the bottom of my heart”. At first, Trump dismissed the rumors, saying that it was absurd to suggest that he and Putin were in cahoots. The four-day Democratic National Convention kicked off July 25.
“Trump has left behind a well-documented record of bankruptcies, thousands of lawsuits, angry shareholders and contractors who feel cheated, and disillusioned customers who feel ripped off”, Bloomberg said. This is a more fundamental choice – about who we are as a people, and whether we stay true to this great American experiment in self-government. He delivered a tribute to working-class Americans who don’t have the kind of support system he does to deal with hard times.
Data from the Sunlight Foundation shows that Biden has used “malarkey” in public more than any person on Capitol Hill, ever..
In contrast, Biden said, “Hillary understands” the plight of parents who can’t afford to send their child to college or the wife fearful that a medical emergency will cause economic catastrophe. “And so has Tim Kaine”.
Obama focused largely on the presidency that will follow him and seemed to unify the party that for days has seemed to be split.
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Described as a racist, a con and a danger to the country, Mr Trump was subject to the same treatment Mrs Clinton had received at the Republican National Convention last week. It’s not just who she is; it’s her life story.
