Obama said Hillary has “never quit on anything in her life” and made people wonder if that also might be a reference to her husband. A CNN/ORC poll released Monday showed Trump emerging with a five-point edge over Clinton coming out of his party’s national convention. She reminded us that we accomplish far more when we unite and support one another instead of cutting each other down.
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Framing the nation’s choice from a mother’s perspective, Mrs. Obama said the election “is about who will have the power to shape our children for the next four or eight years of their lives”.
Back in January, President Barack Obama said the closest he could imagine Donald Trump to making a State of the Union address would be delivering the speech in a “Saturday Night Live” skit. She appealed to Americans’ better natures.
Check out her endorsement of Hillary Clinton below and then ask yourself: has Obama just ensured that the presidency will remain in the control of the Democratic Party? Obama is expected to speak between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. after vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine. “And I watch my daughters, two attractive, intelligent, black young women playing with their dogs on the White House lawn”, the First Lady said.
She ended her speech: “Don’t let anyone tell you this country isn’t great, that somehow we need to make it great again. And I promise you, our strength, our greatness, does not depend on Donald Trump”, he said. “And I watch my daughters, two attractive, intelligent black young women, playing with their dogs on the White House lawn”.
“I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before”, Obama told cheering delegates at the Wells Fargo Center.
Especially at a time of such “vitriol on the campaign trail”, said one veteran aide, Obama wants to make the case for unity and optimism. “He calls himself a business guy, which is true, but I have to say, I’ve met many business men and women who’ve achieved remarkable success without leaving a trail of lawsuits and unpaid workers and people feeling like they got cheated”.
“The Obamas were the first African-American first family that we had, and they did not eradicate racism in this country”.
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“What I think is scary is a president who doesn’t know their stuff and doesn’t seem to have an interest in learning what they don’t know”, Obama said in response.
