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First
lady
draws
sharp
portrait
of
Trump,
without
naming
him
By NANCY
BENAC
Associated
Press
WASHINGTON
-
Without
mentioning
Donald
Trump by
name,
first
lady
Michelle
Obama
stood
before
the
Democratic
convention
on
Monday
and drew
a sharp
sketch
of the
Republican
nominee
that
stood in
harsh
contrast
to her
gauzy
portrait
of
Hillary
Clinton
as a
woman
who has
looked
out for
children
and the
disadvantaged
all her
life.
Delivering
a
mother's
impassioned
call to
action,
Mrs.
Obama
offered
Clinton
to the
nation
as a
woman
with a
heart
and as a
future
president
who
never
"buckles
under
pressure"
or takes
the easy
way out.
Mrs.
Obama
told
delegates
and a
national
television
audience
that
when she
thinks
of "the
kind of
president
that I
want for
my girls
and all
children,"
it's
someone
who
takes
the job
seriously
-
"someone
who
understands
that the
issues a
president
faces
are not
black
and
white
and
cannot
be
boiled
down to
140
characters."
There
was no
mistaking
the
allusion
to
Trump,
the
perpetual
tweeter.
"Because
when you
have the
nuclear
codes at
your
fingertips
and the
military
in your
command,
you
can't
make
snap
decisions,"
Mrs.
Obama
continued.
"You
can't
have a
thin
skin or
a
tendency
to lash
out. You
need to
be
steady
and
measured
and
well-informed."
Mrs.
Obama
also had
a sharp
rejoinder
to
Trump's
"make
America
great
again"
motto:
"Don't
let
anyone
ever
tell you
that
this
country
isn't
great,
that
somehow
we need
to make
it great
again.
Because
this
right
now is
the
greatest
country
on
earth."
Framing
the
nation's
choice
from a
mother's
perspective,
Mrs.
Obama
said the
election
"is
about
who will
have the
power to
shape
our
children
for the
next
four or
eight
years of
their
lives.
And I am
here
today
because
in this
election,
there is
only one
person
who I
trust
with
that
responsibility,
only one
person
who is
truly
qualified
to be
president
of the
United
States
and that
is our
friend,
Hillary
Clinton."
Recalling
all the
moments
when
Clinton
was
picked
apart
for "how
she
looked
or how
she
talked
or even
how she
laughed,"
Mrs.
Obama
added
that
what she
admired
most
about
Clinton
was that
"she
never
buckles
under
pressure.
She
never
takes
the easy
way out.
And
Hillary
Clinton
has
never
quit on
anything
in her
life."
It was a
nostalgic
moment
for Mrs.
Obama,
as she
praised
the
woman
whom
Democrats
hope
will
succeed
her
husband
and a
woman
with
whom she
has
shared
the
title of
first
lady.
Mrs.
Obama
began
with
recollections
of the
past
eight
years,
as her
daughters
grew
from
"bubbly
little
girls
into
poised
young
women."
She
recalled
some of
the
barbs
her
girls
had to
endure
along
the way
-
including
questions
about
their
father's
citizenship
and his
faith.
It went
unspoken
that
Trump
himself
was a
driving
force
behind
the
questions
about
her
husband's
birthright.
Mrs.
Obama
had
barely
finished
her
14-minute
speech
when her
husband,
the
president,
tweeted
his
review:
"Incredible
speech
by an
incredible
woman."
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