Michelle Obama Plagiarizes Michelle Obama In Her DNC Speech
“The America I know is full of courage, and optimism, and ingenuity”. Barack Obama won 60 percent of young voters in battleground states, but Hillary Clinton is winning only 52 percent of them.
Michelle Obama’s entire speech, which even Trump said was effective, ran only about 12 minutes, but it could be the heart of a stump speech with the potential to confound Republicans. She mocked his frequent use of Twitter, called him thin-skinned and questioned whether he has any real knowledge of policy. But Donald Trump’s campaign of white nationalism has made Democrats more sure than ever that the future belongs to them, their broad coalition, and their inclusive vision.
“Don’t let anyone ever tell you that this country is not great”, Obama said on the first night of the Democratic National Convention. Because this right now is the greatest country on Earth.
When Obama, her top aides and her chief speechwriter huddled over the last week to draft her address, they did so against the backdrop of a complicated and evolving relationship between two of the nation’s most prominent women.
On a day when Democrats meeting at their convention in Philadelphia planned to tout their candidate as far better suited than Trump to keep the country safe, the Republican gave his critics fresh fodder for attack with remarks that the Clinton campaign said posed a possible national security threat. They did not see each other much during the next few years, as Clinton kept a hectic schedule of overseas travel as secretary of state. This was after he spent years questioning whether Obama’s husband was born in the United States and was a legitimate president.
“I think that I’ve got a pretty clear-eyed sense of both her strengths and her weaknesses”, Obama said. It was in 2010, just two years into the first term of the Obama administration, and the First Lady had come to Fairhill Elementary School.
For the last eight years, Obama has been making a case for a progressive patriotism, one based on the idea of “a more flawless union”, that phrase from the preamble to the Constitution that he returns to again and again. When she formally accepts it on Thursday, she will become the Democratic standard-bearer against Republican nominee Trump in the November 8 election.
Tim Kaine says his one-time opposition to same-sex marriage changed because he realized that those trying to ban it in Virginia were trying to make it “a hostile place for people” he cares about. “But other times you needed to push private industry to do better, and fight with Congress”.
Michelle Obama’s “convention-side chat” was reminiscent of something you’d hear in a Frank Capra film, the kind of movie you come away from feeling good. Each woman who has entered the East Wing has done so “with their own brand and their own way of approaching it”, Tchen said.
Podesta spoke after some Sanders delegates at the party’s convention wore neon yellow shirts to protest Clinton’s nomination. Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said Wednesday he hopes she “will continue to do what she did in her speech, which is talk about the important role that the president plays as an advocate for kids and families, and how Hillary is eminently qualified to do that job probably better than anyone else in history”.
Then there was the Obama of 2008.
Last week, we found out that Donald Trump’s wife, Melania Trump, is apparently a fan of Michelle Obama‘s. Trump’s speechwriter later apologized.
So over these years, Obama has taught Democrats how to clearly and unequivocally celebrate America while remaining true to their progressive values.
A Hillary Clinton campaign adviser says he’s not anxious about winning over Bernie Sanders’ supporters.
And he complimented her and her husband on their 20th anniversary in 2012.