Warren to Deliver DNC Keynote Address
“Look, let’s face it. Donald Trump has no real plans for jobs or for college kids or for seniors”. Sanders and first lady Michelle Obama will also take the stage.
“I am going to be respectful of you, and I want you to be respectful of me”, Fudge urged delegates over loud “Bernie!” chants. An America where we all break apart. Last night, talking about the six times that Trump had filed for bankruptcy, she emphasized not the Republican’s incompetence but his moral cowardice, the way that bankruptcy had allowed him to “protect his own money and stick his investors and contractors with the bill”. A man who has never sacrificed anything for anyone.
Her answer? “Political opponents and conspiracy theorists have accused me of every crime in the book”, she said. The revolution that moved through the Sanders campaign no longer seemed to have much to do with Warren.
Later in her address, many in the crowd began shouting, “Goldman Sachs”, a reference to a speech Clinton gave to Goldman Sachs’ “Builders and Innovators” conference in October 2013 at the Ritz Carlton Dove Mountain Resort in Marana, Arizona, for which she was paid $225,000.
And Bernie Sanders did what some say he had to do and most Democrats wanted to see him do.
“Well, I’ve got news for Donald Trump”, she said. To win the general election, he said, Clinton needs to show that she’s actually “easygoing and likable – her friendships, her depth, all of those things”. “She strikes me as more the intellectual, limousine liberal, who talks the right talk but doesn’t have the sensitivity to know what it feels like to be unemployed”, Steven Camara, a city councilman from Fall River, a small working-class city, told me. She has made Wall Street reform one of her top issues, calling for greater regulation of the big banks and investment houses that helped cause the recession. We improved the lives of millions of people.
Clinton’s proposals are an extension of President Barack Obama’s two terms in office: tackling climate change, overhauling the nation’s fractured immigration laws, and restricting access to guns.
“I’m anxious that opportunity is slipping away for people who work hard and play by the rules”, she said, arguing that working people were losing out from selfish policies passed by special interests, “but there is a huge difference between people fighting for a level playing field and people fighting to keep the system rigged”. “A man who cares only for himself, every minute of every day”, Warren said of Trump.
“A man who must never be president of the United States”.
Grassroots organizers sought to draft Elizabeth Warren as a presidential candidate before self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist Sanders entered the race to mount a formidable left-leaning challenge to Clinton.