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President Barack Obama on Wednesday night (Thursday morning, Singapore time) implored Americans to help Mrs Hillary Clinton beat Mr Donald Trump, warning that the 2016 presidential race was not just about politics, but the nature of U.S. democracy.
-Obama wrapped up the night, taking the stage to talk about what his positive outlook for the country and why a President Trump would take the country in the wrong direction.
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. “Let’s be honest”, she said in her own Appalachia campaign stop. “That type of person must never, ever become president”.
It is Clinton’s time to speak, accept the nomination, and kick off her campaign officially as the first female nominee for the Democratic Party. Vice President Joe Biden said this week that Democrats have done the right thing for them, but added, “The Democratic Party overall hasn’t spoken enough to those voters”. Yet in a scattershot news conference Wednesday, Trump tried to turn the table on Clinton, saying he believed it unsafe for her to receive national security briefings in light of her well-known email missteps while in office. But she knows that’s what happens when you’re under a microscope for 40 years.
“Her whole philosophy, that has been true of her whole life, is that ‘It Takes a Village,’ ” Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri said, referring to the title of one of the nominee’s books.
“As someone who was responsible for protecting our nation from cyber-attacks, it is inconceivable to me that any presidential candidate would be that irresponsible”.
I wanted Obama to turn his back on Bill Clinton’s disastrous deregulatory economic policies (that balanced budgets on the backs of the poor) and Hillary Clinton’s debts to finance. You could see it in the rapt faces. She even brought posters she designed for Sanders and gave him one.
As a politician and former secretary of state, Clinton had been part of the biggest decisions facing the US, Obama said, noting that “nothing truly prepares you for the demands of the Oval Office”.
Yet today, after more than a year of campaigning, has Hillary Clinton been unable to craft a clear, cogent message – just a few simple words – that distills what her crusade has been all about? She’ll vote for Stein. Tim Kaine, said of the election in an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America”. “Some (of you) find it hard to think about voting for any Democrats”.
And while she’s “scared” of Donald Trump, “I think the Clinton campaign and the oligarchy will rig the election anyway”.
In a move aimed at broadening Clinton’s appeal, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg – an independent who considered launching a third party bid for president – endorsed the Democratic nominee.
Ahead of Obama’s speech, aides said the President was intent on highlighting the aspects of Clinton’s record he feels have been overlooked through the years, including her work protecting children and her dogged work as his secretary of state.
She doesn’t agree with his call for a single-payer health care system but has proposed doubling community health center funding, he said. “These are major steps forward”.
But this was also a passing of the party torch. But my guess is we’re going to need new leadership, a new direction and new personnel’.
Sanders was greeted by chants of “Bernie!”
Clinton’s backers unleashed a litany of criticism.
He also urged them to vote.
More than 100 Sanders supporters staged a convention walkout on Tuesday after his unifying gesture to make Clinton’s nomination unanimous, and they later used a sit-in to shut down a media tent outside the Wells Fargo Arena.
MI delegation breakfasts this week had been marked by a series of interruptions from Sanders faithful.
To see Clinton standing with Obama – their arms raised high together – left Boyd in tears.
“Bernie Sanders has shown us that something is possible”, Duggan said. A few minutes later, he returned to the idea, speaking directly to the Kremlin: “I will tell you this: Russian Federation, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing”.
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“Hillary Clinton is “lista”, he said.
