In the long, over a 40-minute speech, the president praised Clinton, calling it “the most qualified” candidate in US history to hold the highest office. He called it a “great secretary of state” – which is a function Clinton exercised in 2009-2013.
“I believe in Hillary Clinton and I want you gave her vote in the election!” – He said.
As president – said Obama – Hillary will be a “statesman, from which America will be proud of in the world.” He reminded her political career, tenure in the Senate, activities promoting the rights of women and children, as well as her work as head of diplomacy in his office.
A large part of his speech the president devoted harsh criticism of Republican rival Clinton, Donald Trump. He stressed that the advantages of Clinton: prudence, knowledge, and experience to remember, when you listen to speeches GOP candidate attesting to their ignorance and carelessness.
New York billionaire depicted as a typical spokesman of big business, noting that advocates for the abolition of the minimum wage and tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
Earlier, Clinton spoke at the rally. She emphasized that her presidency will be a continuation of Obama’s tenure in the White House. President showered compliments remembering his achievements, the reform of health care at the forefront.
Do not spared either sarcasm Trumpowi. She said that Obama “never forgets where he comes from,” and added: “Donald, if you just twittujesz, I remind you: this is Hawaii.” It was an allusion to the billionaire insinuations that Obama does not actually born in Hawaii – says his birth certificate – only in Kenya, and therefore no legal right to be president (according to the Constitution may be the only person born in the US).
Obama announced support for Clinton a few hours after the FBI director James Comey said that while she was First Lady violated the rules of using private rather than official mail server while directing the State Department, there are no grounds to bring her allegations.
Earlier, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said that comply with the recommendation of the FBI. Hillary exemption from criminal liability on emails met with harsh criticism from the Republican opposition. In his tweet sent on Tuesday Trump suggested that a joint rally with Obama Clinton coincidentally held on the previously announced press conference Comey’a.
Support Obama – believe observers in Washington – should help in the reunification of the Democratic Party around the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. This is important, because its rival party primaries, Sen. Bernie Sanders, despite the loss still did not express her support. It is expected that his followers will demonstrate against Hillary during the pre-election convention in Philadelphia in late July.
Commentators point out bezprecedensowość such a strong commitment to the incumbent president in the election campaign of the candidate of his party. It also condemns the right; there is even talk of “desecration” office. Hillary arrived in Charlotte with Obama on board the presidential plane Air Force One and they spoke from the platform adorned with the seal of the US president.
In a campaign in 2000, the then Democratic candidate Al Gore did not want the demonstration in support of President Bill Clinton and played with him together at rallies. Similarly, during the campaign in 1988, President Ronald Reagan expressed his support for the GOP candidate George H.W.Busha only after a long time and it was quite restrained.
The relationship with President Hillary Clinton have a turbulent history. In 2008, they competed with each other for Democratic presidential nomination. Obama won the fight, although he was then a little-known senator from Illinois without a broader experience, and Clinton was considered the favorite brick. Defeat suffered painfully.
remembering those campaign, Obama said in Charlotte that Clinton beat him then in TV debates.
“She knew every fact, every detail,” – he said.
To alleviate the conflict in the party and neutralize Clinton as a potential competitor in the next election, Obama offered her a job in 2008, Secretary of State. Clinton adopted a proposal for the fluctuations and loyally pursued a foreign policy of his administration, formulated in the White House, although not always agree with her. In the case of Syria, for example, he argued in favor of greater help for the rebels fighting the regime and the establishment of no-fly zones in the country to protect the civilian population against attacks from the air.
After her departure from the State Department, it was revealed that her husband Bill Clinton privately sharply criticized Obama’s international policy. According to the weekly magazine “The Atlantic” she had even said that the president “incompetent” and “does not understand how the world works.” Hillary herself said in an interview that foreign policy should not be reduced to “not to do anything stupid” – which was an allusion to Obama’s speech, which as just explained his aversion to military intervention abroad.
Another expression of distancing Clinton from Obama’s policy was to join the calls for providing weapons to Ukraine after the annexation of the Crimea by Russia and its invasion of Donbas.
Despite these differences, won understanding of the common interests of both the unity and the importance of the Democratic Party before the upcoming elections. Obama wants to win Clinton, because only this guarantees the consolidation of the gains of his presidency in the arena of national politics, such as the first “Obamacare”, ie health care reform that provides insurance for all Americans. Hillary needs in the election campaign support the president, still popular among Democrats and endowed with charismatic speaker.
From Washington Tomasz Zalewski
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