“Even in the midst of crisis, she listens to people. She never, ever quits”, the United States president said.
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RATINGS: Democrats had almost 5 million more viewers Tuesday night than Republicans did for the corresponding night of their convention last week. “That is the Hillary I know”.
Obama continued pushing his message of hope by emphasizing that the country is already great and that we need to come together rather than allow ourselves to be divided. How can there be pleasure in saying “You’re fired”? Donald Trump has a passion too: “It’s himself”.
“Believe me!” he said mockingly, as the audience boomed back, “No!”
When Obama brought up Trump he was answered with boos from the crowd.
“Don’t boo”, Obama responded.
Obama this week stirred questions from some Democrats when he conceded that Trump has a chance to win the election.
“He has no clue about what makes America great”, he said, apparently referring to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan.
In an impassioned speech Wednesday, President Barack Obama forcefully defended America from a pessimistic Republican view and promoted his chosen successor, Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention.
Leon Panetta, a former defence secretary and former Central Intelligence Agency director, told CNN on Wednesday Trump’s remarks about Russian Federation and the Clinton e-mails were “beyond the pale”.
On the heels of reports that Russian Federation may have hacked Democratic Party e-mails, Trump told a news conference: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing”.
Obama-as-asset was in the spotlight at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night.
The two-term president rallied his party’s faithful at their national convention, offering a comprehensive endorsement of his first secretary of state as the one person uniquely qualified to succeed him. Vice President Joe Biden also made an emotional valedictory speech, and Clinton’s running mate, Virginia Sen. “We must unite around the candidate who can defeat a unsafe demagogue”, he urged.
Trump painted an America of his own warped imagination, a nation where violent crime is on the rise, terrorism is rampant, the economy is on life support and hordes of “illegal immigrants… are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens”.
Democrats said the comments were the latest demonstration that Trump is unqualified to be commander in chief.
The address will bookend Obama’s career-launching address to the Democratic convention in 2004, his contentious 2008 primary battle with Clinton and his eight years in office. After winning last week with the Republicans, Fox News was sixth and last.
The billionaire media entrepreneur also ridiculed Trump’s business record. Even as he spoke, sporadic chants of “No TPP” – a reference to the Trans Pacific Partnership – burst out throughout the crowd.
Obama’s appearance, coming the night after former president Bill Clinton lauded his wife’s career in public service, will overshadow the day’s other major event: Kaine’s official nomination as the party’s candidate for vice president.
“You have to be for continuity and change at the same time”, says Bill Galston, a veteran of Democratic presidential campaigns and a White House aide to Bill Clinton.
Clinton’s advantage over Trump is up 6 percentage points from May, in a poll that did not include third-party candidates.
With his speech and the stumping he plans to do all fall, Obama is seeking to persuade the coalition of voters who delivered him the White House to embrace Clinton with the same enthusiasm. In both his campaigns, Obama carried more than 90 percent of black voters, the overwhelming majority of Hispanics, and more than half of young people and women. “She’s been accused of everything you can imagine, and some things you cannot”. “That is the Hillary I know”.
A host of speakers used that moment to skewer Trump with hastily written lines, portraying the NY businessman as erratic and near traitorous.
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Raucous protests that marked the convention earlier in the week were calm and minimal Wednesday. Most of the delegates obliged and Kaine was officially nominated.
