Michelle Obama cast the presidential race as one between a positive role model for children – in Hillary Clinton – and a damaging one – in Donald Trump – in the marquee speech on the Democratic National Convention’s opening night.
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Today’s program: The third day of the DNC will gavel in at 4:30pm EDT, and although the complete speakers’ list is still forthcoming, will include the daughter of the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary, two of the three survivors of the Mother Emanuel Church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, and the widow of an Iraq War helicopter pilot. “Kids who say, ‘I saw you on TV, ‘ ‘I wrote the report on you for school.’ Kids like the little black boy who looked up at my husband, his eyes wide with hope, and he wondered, Is my hair like yours?”
The first lady never mentioned Trump by name, but leveraging her popularity, she made a rare foray into partisan politics to knock the Republican nominee. Let me tell you, Barack and I take that same approach to our jobs as president and first lady because we know that our words and actions matter, not just to our girls but the children across this country. “Because this, right now, is the greatest country on earth”.
The joke comes from plagiarism accusations the Trump campaign faced last week when lines from Melania Trump’s speech resembled ones from Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic Convention speech.
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She concluded by once again making the speech personal – in a way that also noted the historic significance of Clinton becoming the first woman to lead a major-party ticket. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters – and all our sons and daughters – now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.
