US President Barack Obama has said there was a possibility of Republican Party nominee Donald Trump becoming his successor and warned that the real-estate magnate lacks a basic knowledge of the world and "doesn't seem to have an interest in learning".
"Anything is possible," Efe news quoted Obama as telling The Today Show's Savannah Guthrie when asked if Trump could be elected in November.
"What I think is scary is a President who doesn't know their stuff and doesn't seem to have an interest in learning what they don't know," the head of state said in the interview that NBC aired on Wednesday morning.
In his press conferences and the Republican debates, Trump has shown he lacks a "basic knowledge about the world, or what a nuclear triad is, or where various countries are, or, you know, the difference between Sunni and Shia in the Muslim world", Obama said.
"Those are things that he doesn't know and hasn't seemed to spend a lot of time trying to find out about."
He also said the magnate was wrong to assert that he alone can solve the United States' problems because "that's not how our founders designed our system".
"We're not a government where some strong man orders people around and banishes enemies. I think that it's important for us to remember that we live in a democracy. And by definition, then, the way we solve problems is by everybody participating and arguing and occasionally having to compromise," the President said.
Obama, who on Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia will make the case for electing his party's nominee, Hillary Clinton, said Trump "is somebody who likes attention, maybe surprised himself that he got this far" in the presidential race.
"So, my advice to Democrats -- and I don't have to give this advice to Hillary Clinton, because she already knows it -- is you stay worried until all those votes are cast and counted," Efe news quoted the President as saying.
"One of the dangers in an election like this is that people don't take the challenge seriously. They stay home. And we end up getting the unexpected," he added.
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28/7/16
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"Anything is possible," Efe news quoted Obama as telling The Today Show's Savannah Guthrie when asked if Trump could be elected in November.
"What I think is scary is a President who doesn't know their stuff and doesn't seem to have an interest in learning what they don't know," the head of state said in the interview that NBC aired on Wednesday morning.
In his press conferences and the Republican debates, Trump has shown he lacks a "basic knowledge about the world, or what a nuclear triad is, or where various countries are, or, you know, the difference between Sunni and Shia in the Muslim world", Obama said.
"Those are things that he doesn't know and hasn't seemed to spend a lot of time trying to find out about."
He also said the magnate was wrong to assert that he alone can solve the United States' problems because "that's not how our founders designed our system".
"We're not a government where some strong man orders people around and banishes enemies. I think that it's important for us to remember that we live in a democracy. And by definition, then, the way we solve problems is by everybody participating and arguing and occasionally having to compromise," the President said.
Obama, who on Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia will make the case for electing his party's nominee, Hillary Clinton, said Trump "is somebody who likes attention, maybe surprised himself that he got this far" in the presidential race.
"So, my advice to Democrats -- and I don't have to give this advice to Hillary Clinton, because she already knows it -- is you stay worried until all those votes are cast and counted," Efe news quoted the President as saying.
"One of the dangers in an election like this is that people don't take the challenge seriously. They stay home. And we end up getting the unexpected," he added.
[IANS/zeenews.india.com]
28/7/16
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Obama to Democrats: 'We're going to carry Hillary to victory'...
ReplyDeletePresident Barack Obama on Wednesday implored Americans to help Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump, warning the 2016 race was not just about politics, but the nature of US democracy.
Speaking before a rapt Democratic convention in Philadelphia, Obama praised Clinton's caliber and readiness for the White House while painting her Republican rival as a know-nothing authoritarian.
The election, Obama said, was "not just a choice between parties or policies; the usual debates between left and right."
"This is a more fundamental choice," he said.
In the city where America's founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, Obama declared the November election a "fundamental choice" about what the country is and the very "meaning of our democracy."
Obama spearheaded a day-long effort by Democrats to depict Trump as unfit to be commander-in-chief, contrasting the political neophyte with his more experienced Democratic rival.
Trump, he said, was "betting that if he scares enough people, he might score just enough votes to win this election."....By i24news - AFP
28/7/16