Joe Biden blasts Donald Trump for having ‘no clue’ in DNC speech
Obama focused largely on the presidency that will follow him and seemed to unify the party that for days has seemed to be split.
“Everybody knows she’s smart, everybody knows she’s tough-but I know what she’s passionate about”, he said.
Later he turned the Dem nominee, someone he’s known for three decades. “The America I know is decent and generous”.
“My daughters and granddaughters can do anything our sons and grandsons can do”, he said. Standing-O for that one. And that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.
Obama sees himself as a witness who can describe her in action, an adviser said. “…It’s her life story: she’s always there, she’s always been there”.
SEN. TIM KAINE (D-VA), Vice Presidential Nominee: She’s going to open up who we are as a nation, who the leadership of this nation is.
He also called out his “buddy Chris Dodd”, the former CT senator and current chairman and CEO of the MPAA.
Biden is praised for taking on the National Rifle Association in pushing for an assault weapons ban in the 1990s. “She understands that the college loan is about more than getting a qualified student an education – it’s about saving a mom and a dad the indignity of having to look at their talented child and say, ‘Sorry, the bank wouldn’t lend me the money you need to get to school'”. How can there be pleasure in saying ‘you’re fired.’ He’s trying to tell us he cares about the middle class? Biden explained before offering his own well-used tagline: “That’s a bunch of malarkey!” All the Republicans know, that’s not who we are.
“He has no clue about what makes America great”, Biden continued, adding, “Actually, he has no clue period”. Biden acknowledged his nickname as “middle-class Joe” in Washington, D.C. (a way of saying he is not “sophisticated”) and said he is fine with being who he is.
“I think he has been very successful in playing on their fears”. There are pockets of America that never recovered from factory closures; men who took pride in hard work and providing for their families who now feel forgotten.
Although there’s no clear answer for where the word came from, University of Michigan English Professor Anne Curzan told Michigan NPR that the first person to popularize the term was Irish-American.
Biden said he saw a bright future in Clinton and in the future of America. He also paid tribute to his late son, Beau Biden.
The vice president further pointed to what her historic election would mean for young women across the country.
Just hours earlier on Wednesday, Trump encouraged the Russians to obtain Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s emails from her private server, a statement that shocked and anxious national security observers. “But the thing that bothers me Willie [Geist], is I don’t see any attempt from him to go out and get people who really know on the Republican side”.