Much of the speech was focused, appropriately, on the president’s praise of Hillary Clinton, and by any measure, Obama made the case for his former Secretary of State better than anyone has before.
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At the end of her speech, Clinton returned to themes of family and referenced the momentousness of the occasion – and appeared to take the subtlest of digs at Trump, playing off the “Make America Great Again” slogan he borrowed from Ronald Reagan.
The address bookends Mr Obama’s career-launching address to the Democratic convention in 2004, his contentious 2008 primary battle with Mrs Clinton and his eight years in office.
Clinton made a point to thank Sanders and his supporters early on in her speech, assuring them that, “I’ve heard you”. In fact, in 1987, they were seemingly desperate to get his star power on their side. “America isn’t about ‘yes he will, ‘ it’s about ‘yes we can!'”
On Thursday, people familiar with the matter said the FBI is investigating a cyber attack against another Democratic Party group, which may be related to the earlier hack against the DNC. “Close Guantanamo Bay, pull all the troops out of Afghanistan, I’m sure one of his biggest regrets is not being able to reform police departments … but it’s all because we have a Republican Congress”.
And Vice President Joe Biden, in rejecting Trump, declared that “Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down”. “There is only one candidate in this race who believes in America’s future and that’s Hillary Clinton”, Obama added, to deafening cheers.
“Our strength, our greatness does not depend on Donald Trump”.
“There were no serious solutions to pressing problems – just the fanning of resentment, and blame, and anger, and hate”, Obama said – a clear knock on GOP nominee Donald Trump, whose convention speech was panned by critics as dark and gloomy. When she formally accepts it on Thursday, she will become the Democratic standard-bearer against Republican nominee Trump in the November 8 election. He has no national security experience and has breezily dismissed decades of USA foreign policy constants, like standing by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies that long suffered under Russian domination. “Yeah”, said Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
Hillary Clinton is set to face the nation with the goal of introducing the woman that speaker after speaker, including a pair of presidents, have spent days promising the American public they’ll finally get to see: the “real” Hillary Clinton.
“I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as President of the United States of America”.
“Think about that”, Biden said. But if she managed to speak to those who supported Sanders, Hillary won’t mind a bit. She’s ready because of her experience. “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons”, she said.
As for the bit about Hillary being more qualified than Bill, he apologized – kind of. If you believe we should expand Social Security and protect a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions – join us!
And some Democrats still aren’t convinced of her candidacy, either, after a hard primary campaign against Bernie Sanders, a sentiment underscored by the protests of a small but boisterous set of Sanders’ supporters.
A consistent message has been Clinton’s perseverance. Obama boosts Clinton at DNCBut Clinton’s challenge has never been her command of policy.
Vying to be the first woman elected us president, Clinton called her nomination “a milestone”. “Trump says he wants to run the nation like he’s run his business”.
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The Democratic party is moving forward with Clinton as their nominee. “The only thing I’ve seen Donald Trump do when it comes to US trade policy is run his mouth and line his pockets”, Brown said. While he secured a sweeping health overhaul and economic reforms that reshaped the American economy, the same gridlock he promised to break through stopped him from delivering new laws and policies to fix immigration, tighten gun restrictions and reduce the role of money in politics.
