Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid praised President Obama’s willingness to take on unpopular issuesin his speech at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday.
“His strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it is not the easy thing,” Reid said. “Some said he should not save Detroit. President Obama made the tough and bright call to save more than 1 million American jobs in an important, iconic industry.”
Reid also attacked Republican obstructionism:
They pledged on day one that they would not lift a finger to help. They have not. In the debt of the great recession, as millions of Americans struggled to find work, the Republican leader of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, said that Republicans’ No. 1 goal was to make Barack Obama a one-term president.
Reid left the stage to chants of “Harry! Harry! Harry!”
