The 2016 presidential election is not about Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative policies, but about the “American experiment of self-government”- democracy itself, US President Barack Obama told the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night. “Change is never easy, and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime….Yes, we’ve still got more work to do”, Mr. Obama said.
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Hillary Clinton speaks on stage to lay out her plan for America during her speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention on Thursday (July 28) at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Penn.
Hillary Clinton declared her belief in science. “I know a con when I see one”, Bloomberg said. “Wall Street, corporations, and the super-rich are going to start paying their fair share of taxes”, she said, sounding much like her primary opponent.
Obama and Clinton were rivals in the hard-fought campaign for the 2008 Democratic nomination.
Barack Obama offered his full-hearted support to Hillary Clinton as he said there “has never been anyone more qualified” to be President.
“It’s not just a detail if it’s your kid, if it’s your family”, she said. When it comes to Donald, he told his supporters “don’t boo, vote”.
Clinton joined Obama on stage at the end of his speech, but not before he thanked the American people for “this incredible journey” of the past 8 years.
Earlier this week, the convention formally anointed Mrs Clinton as the Democratic nominee, and she will now go up against her Republican counterpart Donald Trump in November’s election. “But Hillary’s been in the room; she’s been part of those decisions”. Everybody knows her head.
The Democratic presidential nominee waved to the crowd and embraced Obama before exiting.
By contrast, many prominent Republicans were absent from the party convention that nominated Trump for the White House last week. Those two words didn’t come up in Trump’s speech – except in the context of technology transfer to Iran and USA military technology. President Obama then criticized Trump for calling America’s military a disaster, for suggesting America is weak, for cozying up to Russian President Vladimir Putin, for praising Iraq’s late dictator Saddam Hussein, and telling North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies they will have to pay for USA protection.
Trump fired back at the largely optimistic tone of Obama and other Democratic speakers who this week have taken exception to Trump’s campaign slogan pledging to “Make America Great Again”.
“When we do, America will be greater than ever”, she added. “For all Americans. Together”.
“When Trump made a decision to run for president, he probably said to himself, ‘I’m an egomaniac.
Give me a break!”
“This is a complicated and uncertain world we live in”, Biden said.
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On Wednesday night, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine accepted the party’s nomination as Clinton’s vice presidential running mate and in a speech described billionaire Trump as “a one-man wrecking crew” who can not be trusted in the Oval Office.
