President Barack Obama has once again spoken out against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, saying that he is “woefully unprepared” to serve as leader. This isn’t a situation where you have an episodic gaffe. This is daily and weekly where they are distancing themselves from statements he’s making.
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“Right now, I’m president, and I’m for it”, Obama said. “And, you know, the fact that that has not yet happened makes some of these denunciations ring hollow”.
For the Republicans, “There has to some a point where you say, ‘Enough, ‘” Obama said. “I think I was right and Mitt Romney and John McCain were wrong on certain policy issues, but I never thought they couldn’t do the job”, he said.
He said at least those rivals were bound by rules of common decency and basic sense.
Yet the political dilemma for Republicans was plain to see Tuesday. Trump refused to endorse them in their upcoming primaries. Ryan has been among those urging Republicans to rally around Trump, despite concerns about his candidacy.
“The Americans take pride in having a system with checks and balances so that it is not so easy to do things, but it is not so easy to completely mess things up”, Lee said, prompting reporters to laugh and Obama to smile. Prominent staffers for people like Jeb Bush and Chris Christie have suggested they’ll vote for Clinton.
Hanna unloaded on his party’s nominee this week. In a public op-ed, he cited Trump’s spat with the family of the dead soldier. Lee said a previous trade agreement between the two nations was instigated with a midnight golf outing featuring an outgoing President Bill Clinton and former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, “showing what can be done even in lame-duck periods”. My reasons were simple and personal.
Clinton and her running mate, Virginia Sen Tim Kaine, both once supported the deal but reversed course as White House candidates. “Not bumper sticker slogans that pander to our disappointment, fear and hate”.
Last week, Obama addressed the Democratic convention in Philadelphia and painted this election as a choice not between a Democrat and Republican, but a Democrat and a demagogue who threatens democracy.
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama’s 12th state dinner is being held Tuesday night for the prime minister of Singapore, a city-state Obama refers to as an anchor for the USA presence in Southeast Asia.
Trump pointed to the Middle East, and Obama’s failure to enforce “his line in the sand” in Syria over the use of chemical weapons, as evidence of the President’s foreign policy failures.
Obama has made clear he plans to be an active player in the White House race, campaigning around the country for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
If the president was trying to insert himself in the campaign, it appeared to work Tuesday. “He’ll probably go down as the worst president in the history of our country, he’s been a total disaster”, Trump told Sinclair Broadcast group in an interview yesterday.
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The business mogul concluded that the USA required drastic change, stating that Clinton “is reckless with her emails, reckless with regime change, and reckless with American lives”.
