And he sought to remind Americans about her years of civil service and experience, saying she’s “been in the room”.
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“Nothing truly prepares you for the demands of the Oval Office”, Obama said. You can read about it. Hillary Clinton has a complicated row to hoe if she’s going to dig up the votes she’s going to need to prevail in November.
She’s still seared with the memory of every American she met who lost loved ones on 9/11, which is why, as a Senator from NY, she fought so hard for funding to help first responders; why, as Secretary of State, she sat with me in the Situation Room and forcefully argued in favor of the mission that took out bin Laden. “She knows what’s at stake in the decisions our government makes”.
“Even in the middle of crisis, she listens to people, and keeps her cool, and treats everybody with respect”, he said in speech experts.
He went on to ridicule Trump’s habit of saying no more than “believe me” when offering vague details of how he’d build a wall on the Mexican border or destroy the Islamic State group “so fast”. That’s the Hillary I’ve come to admire. But as Obama’s popularity has rebounded-even with the Republican-controlled Senate thwarting most of his initiatives in past years-Clinton began to cast herself as the candidate who would continue his legacy, a task made even easier when Trump became the nominee. He proclaimed that “America is already great. America is already strong”, he declared to cheering delegates Wednesday night at the Democratic convention. “And I promise you, our strength, our greatness, does not depend on Donald Trump”.
“Thank you for this incredible journey”, a misty-eyed Obama said to cheers as he took it all in.
Stepping out of the shadows of presidents past, the former first lady, senator and vanquished-candidate-turned-secretary-of-state appeared unannounced on the platform at her nominating convention, pointed a finger at President Barack Obama and gave him a hug.
Kaine, accepting the vice presidential nomination, wove Spanish throughout a speech that centered on his faith and on attacking Trump.
“The times are too uncertain to elect Donald Trump as President of the United States”, Biden said. “We believe in the American dream!” Tim Kaine, spoke Wednesday, and aides note he is well-regarded across his state, including in some rural, Republican pockets.
Mellman, the pollster, predicts Democrats can make “marginal gains” among nonurban whites, including men, in the same way that Republicans are seeking marginal upticks in support from African-Americans and Latinos.
Trump fuelled more controversy Wednesday when he encouraged Russian Federation to meddle in the presidential campaign – even as he dismissed suggestions from Obama and other Democrats that Moscow was already acting on his behalf. “America isn’t about ‘Yes he will.’ It’s about ‘Yes we can'”. “Don’t forget”, Biden said.
Earlier in the evening, U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden painted Trump as a danger to America and the world in a rousing attack on the Republican nominee. Give me a break! That’s a bunch of malarkey!’ Biden shouted to cheers.
The Democratic party is moving forward with Clinton as their nominee. Your vote will determine the future of your job, your business and our future together as a country.
QUOTE: “I do think some Republicans have been reticent about speaking out because they don’t want to look like they’re helping Hillary Clinton here”.
“It’s not just a choice between parties or policies; the usual debates between left and right”, Obama said.
Some of his supporters, albeit reluctantly, are falling in line
behind Clinton.
“We’ve been consumed with crisis after crisis after crisis”, he said. Among those taking the stage is former Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency chief Leon Panetta, who served alongside Clinton in Obama’s Cabinet. “I never expected to be here”, he said. She is fit to be the next commander-in-chief.
He told the convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a national audience that his wife “is uniquely qualified to seize the opportunities and reduce the risk we face, and she is still the best darn change-maker I have ever known”. Biden says his challenge in dealing with his son’s death makes him appreciate “the unbreakable spirit of the people of America” who deal with problems every day with “so much less support”, but still “put one foot in front of the other”.
“Hillary is tough. Hillary is courageous”.
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She noted her son’s accomplishments, such as starting a gay-straight alliance at his high school, and recalled that she, a police officer at the time of his birth, had to surrender her gun when she checked into the hospital. “I say Trump lies”. “Speaking is hard for me”.
