Obama will be one of a string of Democratic national security heavyweights – from former Central Intelligence Agency director Leon Panetta to Vice President Joe Biden – who will appear before the convention to explicitly and implicitly question Trump’s temperament.
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The vice president lauded the Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton as a fighter who cares for struggling families.
Biden acknowledged his final convention address as an elected official was a bittersweet moment, coming only a year after the loss of his eldest son, Beau. He’s set to address the Democratic convention Wednesday night.
Democrats will hope to capitalize on a string of perceived foreign policy missteps, culminating in Trump’s suggestion that Russian Federation spy on his rival Clinton. “Donald Trump, who wants to be president of the United States, is asking one of our adversaries to engage in hacking or intelligence efforts against the United States of America to affect an election”, Panetta said.
Instead, they’ve centred their national security criticism on Trump by calling him rash and irresponsible, ridiculing his suggestions of a weaker North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and allowing more nuclear powers, or his occasionally favourable comments about authoritarian rulers.
Biden told delegates he is convinced Donald Trump’s “lack of empathy” is proof he will not put the interests of ordinary Americans before his own.
Obama says, what he thinks is “scary is a president who doesn’t know their stuff”.
Obama continued to critique Trump’s rhetoric, but added that it is nothing new.
The interview was aired on NBC’s “Today” the same day he is scheduled to address the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
“I trust Hillary Clinton with our son’s life”, Kaine said.
The White House would like to make November’s crunch election a battle about competence versus incompetence, steady versus capricious, knowledge versus entertainment. He said Putin doesn’t want to see a united North Atlantic Treaty Organisation or a united European Union. But he said the leak is consistent with Russia’s past conduct.
“No major party nominee in the history of this nation has ever known less or has been less prepared to deal with our national security”. Biden criticized Trump for wanting to break up USA alliances with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation countries. It’s a lovefest now.
But Biden, 73, put that behind him and delivered a stirring defense of Clinton as smart, tough and passionate about helping others. He offered a deeply personal – though sanitized – account of their relationship, a policy-driven ode to the “best darn change-maker I have ever met”.
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Clinton served as Obama’s first secretary of state, but was out of government by the time IS began making territorial advances.
