Former Secretary of State Clinton delivered an upbeat keynote address at the Democratic convention on Thursday night, as she became the first woman to accept the presidential nomination from a major party.
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In a series of tweets, and a subsequent Facebook post, the Republican presidential candidate attacked Clinton for not uttering the words “radical Islam” when referring to extremist attacks carried out by Islamic State militant group (ISIS) inspired lone wolves, such as in Orlando or San Bernardino.
Clinton reserved some of her most pointed language to take digs directly at Trump, wasting precious little time before taking on the Republican nominee. “Donald Trump can’t even handle the rough and tumble of a presidential campaign”.
He continued: “Hillary’s wars in the Middle East have unleashed destruction, terrorism and ISIS across the world”.
Trump eventually concluded with “no one has worse judgement than Hillary Clinton – corruption and devastation follows her wherever she goes”.
While her speech was not as electrifying as those given by US President Barack Obama and some other prominent Democrats at the Philadelphia convention, Clinton was authoritative and self-assured in her pitch to the public. Many of her statements were lies and fabrications!
“I want you to know I’ve heard you”, Clinton said. “Then deal me in”, she shouted, along with numerous delegates inside the Wells Fargo Arena.
Chelsea wove between her earliest memories of her mother (speaking of her mom reading her Goodnight Moon when she was a child).
“I didn’t know he was disabled. We have to decide whether we’re going to work together so we can all rise together”. “Donald Trump consistently smears the character of Muslims”, he said.
Mr Trump also brought up the case of disabled New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, whom he seemed to mock publicly in video used by the Clinton ad. But we already know he doesn’t believe these things. She painted America as being “in a moment of reckoning”.
And about Trump’s insistence that Clinton shouldn’t have said anything at all if she couldn’t have said anything nice? “There are no policies on any of those fronts that you just mentioned on his website – not last week, not this week – so I think the how question is super important in politics as it is in life”, Clinton said.
She also promised to stand by America’s North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies, a reference to Trump’s recent comments that he would reconsider the necessity of the alliance if elected president. Many of those backing the Donald are the legions of Americans who have found themselves sidelined and silenced by a country which just isn’t working for them. “She said that what anxious President Kennedy during that very unsafe time was that a war might be started, not by big men with self-control and restraint, but by little men, the ones moved by fear and pride”, she said.
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“You’ve put economic and social justice issues front and center where they belong”, Clinton told the Vermont senator, who endorsed her candidacy less than three weeks ago and drew to a close to one the most quarrelsome rivalries in the modern history of the Democratic Party.
