In a speech on national service Friday, Hillary Clinton dismissed the dismal picture that Donald Trump has painted of the United States and called for Americans to come together and serve their community.
Speaking in Fort Pierce, Florida, Clinton referenced Trump’s campaign slogan, telling the crowd that this election is “not just about what makes America great—because I think that America already is great—but about what we should to to make it even greater.”
Clinton noted that at the Republican National Convention Trump described a “hopeless, broken nation.”
“I don’t see that,” she said. “That in no way resembles the strong and vibrant America I know.”
She also recalled that Trump told voters, “I alone can fix it,” saying that he has a “strongman approach” to leadership. Clinton said that Trump believes in “one person getting supreme power and exercising it ruthlessly,” citing his admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“It is never just one person, not even someone as powerful as the president,” she said, adding that positive achievements have “always happened because people have worked together.”
Clinton then pivoted to her call for a renewed focus on community service, praising members of Americorps and the Peace Corps present in the audience. She offered several proposals regarding service, including expanding Americorps and creating a national service reserve.
She said that service has always been a bipartisan issue, but suggested it was not one of Trump’s priorities.
“I don’t think you’ll here anything about this from my opponent,” she said. “I think that’s a shame.”
She’s really laying into him. I bet he is hardly sleeping.
I know I am up all hours watching, too:)
Michelle Obama: ‘When they go low, we go high’
Not the Gary Johnson high, the other one…
The Creamsicle is too busy screaming about the non-existent sex tape to talk about this. Besides, it’s about selflessness, a topic with which is not familiar at all.
And geez, Josh. In the last graph it’s ‘hear’ not ‘here.’ I realize copyediting is a chore and boring sometimes and yes, I understand this is a homonym that computers miss but christ onna crutch, copyediting is necessary because without it you look like a damned fool.
If you think she is not "offering a positive vision of what she would do", You’re not paying attention
Honestly, you can get obsessed with Trump loathing but it’s so, so refreshing to hear Hillz laying out a positive vision. You have to think, after all these years, she really is committed to realizing a goal of making things better. Turning from his mind and world to hers is like going from a miasmic swamp to a sunny mountain meadow.