“By so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we started”, Obama said on the penultimate night of the Democratic National Convention.
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She may begin returning the president’s recent favors starting next year: Much of his legacy, particularly on climate change and health care, depends on Clinton sustaining his policies from the Oval Office over the next four years.
Wednesday night in Philadelphia, President Obama proved once again that he is one of the best orators to take the political stage, as he extolled his accomplishments, accused Republican Donald Trump of being unfit for the presidency and argued that Hillary Clinton – “not me, not Bill, nobody” – is the most qualified person ever to seek the White House.
Obama cast the 2016 election as a choice between two visions for the country: The one he described on the Democratic convention stage when he rocketed to stardom 12 years ago in Boston against a dark and dystopian view from Trump that Obama said doesn’t match “the America I know“. I was worn out.
“I hope you don’t mind, Bill, but I was just telling the truth, man”, Obama said.
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“This year, in this election, I’m asking you to join me – to reject cynicism, and reject fear, and to summon what’s best in us; to elect Hillary Clinton as the next President of the United States, and show the world we still believe in the promise of this great nation”, Obama said.
“The roar is deafening… a passionate endorsement of Hillary Rodham Clinton and at times an artful takedown of Donald Trump”, Holt said after the president’s speech.
Barack Obama’s speech appealed to a wide cross-section of USA society present at the convention. “I think the other thing will be his footprint on the world ― that we don’t necessarily have to be the policeman of the world, that we can engage people through diplomacy”. He recapped the triumphs of his own presidency before highlighting Clinton’s capability to complete the work he left unfinished.
“I have never seen anything more craven than Mitch McConnell and what he has done to our democracy”.
The Hill: Carl Bernstein: Trump’s Russian Federation talk “disqualifying” – “Bernstein, who famously helped uncover the Watergate scandal, said Democrats should capitalize on Trump’s remarks and keep the billionaire from reaching the White House”. It’s not just that Obama personally vouched for her, though he did that plenty.
Obama insisted that Trump had turned the Republican party into something else entirely, insisting that the party convention last week wasn’t Republican and “sure wasn’t conservative”.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid delivered perhaps the most stinging rebuke of Republicans and their presidential nominee Donald Trump that we’ve seen at the DNC.
Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton were rivals in the hard-fought campaign for the 2008 Democratic nomination.
The FBI concluded this month that Clinton had been “extremely careless” in her handling of classified material via a private email server, but did not recommend that she face criminal charges.
Rep. Cheryl Brown, a California delegate from San Bernardino who is black, condemned what she called the “aggressive” behavior of some Sanders delegates, saying they jumped on tables and shoved people at the state’s hotel the night that Sanders moved that the convention nominate Clinton by acclamation.
With folksy charm, he ridiculed Trump’s list of promises and imitated one of the GOP candidate’s favorite phrases.
Drawing chants of “Not a clue” from the floor of the convention, Biden took Trump, a reality TV host, to task for his trademark slogan, “You’re fired”.
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Kaine, Virginia’s former governor, was responding to a radio ad in which Kaine says, “I’m against same sex marriage”. Still, veteran CBS anchor-reporter Bob Schieffer suggested that, while Trump did steal the day’s thunder, he might not be happy about where the political lightning will strike. “She’s been part of those decisions”. It was bad enough that Democrats had to dim the lights over the rebelling delegations to try to get back on-message.
