Democrats sharpened their attacks on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on the third night of the Democratic National Convention, with Vice-President Joe Biden and Virginia Senator Tim Kaine leading the charge.
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I wish it hadn’t extended quite so far past my bedtime, but if you’re interested in politics, President Obama’s speech to the Democratic Convention Wednesday night was worth staying up for.
Now it’s up to Hillary Clinton to close the final night of the National Convention with the enthusiasm to carry the party through November.
And her legacy is his. For those who vote for me and those who don’t. In a Fast Company profile in April 2014, the magazine said she was hands-on with the foundation and helped beef up its infrastructure.
Delegates found humor in the “Bill for First Lady” shirts being sold around Philadelphia this week, but many agreed that Clinton has the power and prestige to take the position to a new level. Even the Democrat Party wouldn’t nominate a man as inept and unlikeable as Hillary. At an earlier campaign appearance, he encouraged Russian Federation to find and make public missing emails deleted by his presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Speaking to delegates, Obama offered an alternative to businessman Trump’s vision of the United States as being under siege from illegal immigrants, crime and terrorism and losing influence in the world. But I believe I felt what he felt, many years later, when I moved here in 2013: the sense of open opportunity that underlies American mythology.
Ahead of her speech, retired four star General John Allen, the former head of United States and worldwide forces in Afghanistan, delivered a powerful speech in which he told delegates that Clinton would be “exactly the Commander-in-Chief America needs”.
Hillary Clinton must be thinking what does it take to escape the huge shadow of husband and former President Bill Clinton. But he has railed against Trump’s campaign and taken issue with his policies and controversial rhetoric. America is already strong.
“Don’t let anyone tell you we don’t have what it takes”, Clinton said.
“Preach!” members of the crowd shouted. “That’s what happens when we try”, Obama said protectively.
Trump has proposed temporarily banning Muslims from entering the country and building a wall on the border with Mexico to stop illegal immigrants.
On Wednesday night, U.S. Sen.
The Democratic nomination now officially hers, Clinton has just over three months to persuade Americans Trump is unqualified for the Oval Office and overcome the visceral connection he has with some voters in a way the Democratic nominee does not.
“Donald Trump asks our troops to commit war crimes, endorses torture, spurns allies from Europe to Asia, suggests more countries have nuclear weapons and praises dictators from Saddam Hussein to Vladimir Putin”, Panetta told the delegates.
Groen said the Clintons will certainly be able to understand each other’s roles.
She wove a parable of her wholesome middle class upbringing and said her family were builders of the American dream and not people “with their name on big buildings” – another dig at Trump. “That is a bunch of malarkey”.
Secondly, he gave Clinton an opening to acknowledge her own blunders in her speech tonight, something she’s been reluctant to do but which seems absolutely essential to easing the widespread doubts about her among uncommitted voters.
The president made crystal clear how intensely invested he has become in calculating how to keep Donald Trump out of the White House.
Trump has hammered Clinton as untrustworthy and cast America as a place where security threats abound and law and order are breaking down.
Clinton is delivering her speech at the end of a largely successful convention which has begun to mend the split left in the party by her divisive primary against Sanders.
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Indeed, the Democratic convention has been a visual ode those mantras: The first African-American president symbolically seeking to hand the weightiest baton in the free world to a woman.
