President Barack Obama “passed the baton” to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Wednesday, July 27, and complimented the former secretary of state for being stronger than him and capable of doing the job “backwards in heels”.
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“When there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit”, she said.
Clinton didn’t speak in 1992 when her husband was first nominated as a presidential candidate. Obama declared Clinton not only can defeat Trump’s “deeply pessimistic vision” but also realize the “promise of this great nation”.
“He’s forgetting every last one of us”, she said.
Clinton appeared unannounced on the platform soon after to soak up the roar of cheering Democrats.
After being in office for eight years, Mr. Obama’s popularity remains high at 49 per cent approval ratings.
In an earlier speech in Philadelphia, US vice president Joe Biden said Mr Trump was an opportunist who has no clue about how to make America great or help working families.
Amid the political heavyweights of the Democratic Party, the night’s most emotional moments came from the family of victims of mass shootings from Orlando, Charleston and Sandy Hook Elementary School. It climaxed a parade of speeches over the past 72 hours – from men and women, gay and straight, white, black and Hispanic, young and old – hoping to cast the Republicans as out-of-touch social conservatives led by an unhinged and unscrupulous tycoon.
“I get it. Some people just don’t know what to make of me”, she said. He reminded voters that Reagan famously called America “a shining city on a hill”.
Trump, meanwhile, “is not really a plans guy”, Obama said.
“There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story”, Biden said.
Trump did his best to steal the spotlight Wednesday.
Obama spoke for 50 minutes in his last appearance before a Democratic convention as president. She disputed Trump’s assertion that she wants to repeal the Second Amendment, saying “I’m not here to take away your guns”. He has no national security experience and has breezily dismissed decades of US foreign policy constants, like standing by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies that long suffered under Russian domination.
Instead, he was here on Wednesday, reminding everyone “what it’ll mean for our daughters and granddaughters when Hillary Clinton walks into the Oval Office as the president of the United States of America”.
On Thursday, Democrats continued to claim it was Trump who is a “dangerous” choice.
Clinton’s running mate, Virginia Sen.
Clinton hopes to win over not only the hearts of Republican voters but also the wallets of some of the party’s donors.
“And that’s why I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill [Clinton], nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America”.
Mrs Clinton portrayed Mr Trump as a threat to the country, saying “a man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”.
Nebraska may be a “red” state, but Hillary Clinton will campaign in Omaha on Monday, Aug. 1. But supporters of Bernie Sanders already are complaining loudly about Kaine’s centrist views, including his past praise for the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal. Clinton match him step-for-step – “backward in heels”. One of her speech themes, aides said, would be the lessons from her book “It Takes a Village”, where she wrote about the impact a community can have on children.
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Her chief challenges include convincing Americans dissatisfied with the slow and uneven economic recovery and fearful of a spate of new terrorism attacks that staying the course is better than betting on the unpredictable agenda of Republican rival Donald Trump.
