Hillary Clinton formally accepted the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination on Thursday night by casting her campaign as a fight to defend core American values against an opponent she depicted as unstable and unqualified.
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Known as a more effective politician in small gatherings than as a big-event speaker, the former secretary of state has a hard act to follow after Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, and Vice President Joe Biden electrified this week’s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Of those who tuned in only on the final evening to see what Trump had to offer only 19 percent rated the speech excellent or good.
Also pulling no punches against the GOP standard-bearer was President Barack Obama. And other than the brief sentiment about the version of America known to both men, the context of the statements are very different.
While information about Trump’s debts has been made public in personal financial disclosures filed with federal election regulators, the Democratic donors say access to his taxes might shed light on previously unknown business arrangements. “That is another bet that Donald Trump will lose”. He then praised Clinton for caring about all Americans and noted that she would work to change people’s lives. “Would you make this deal and solve the problem?’ I solved the problem”, Trump said.
And here’s what the president said in Philadelphia.
“But what we heard in Cleveland last week wasn’t particularly Republican – and it sure wasn’t conservative”. “We have to heal the divides in our country”. The America I know is decent and generous.
“I refuse to believe we can’t find common ground here”, she said.
He cited the acronym “GSD” – short for “get stuff done” – and said that’s something mayors are expected to do even when their neighbors bring issues to their inbox. “That’s the America I know”. “But as Ernest Hemingway once wrote, the world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong at the broken places”.
Campaign spokesman Nick Merrill said the newly-disclosed breach affected a Democratic National Committee voter analysis programme used by the campaign and other organisations.
It’s called the Jill Robinson effect, after Jackie Robinson, the first black pro-baseball player – who had to be better than all of the white players to overcome prejudice and be given the same chance. I’m not here to take away your guns. NBC also cites a speech from George W. Bush delivered in the days following 9/11 that uses the same passage.
“Women who cover their heads in this country must feel comfortable going outside their homes”.
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“Hillary has specific ideas to invest in new jobs, to help workers share in their company’s profits, to help put kids in preschool and put students through college without taking on a ton of debt”, Obama said. “That’s not the America I value”.
