President Obama is working furiously on his Democratic convention speech, set to take place Wednesday night, and plans to set up a “stark” choice for voters in November between continuing on the path he set or taking the country backward, the White House said Tuesday.
After first lady Michelle Obama “set the bar very high,” delivering a rousing address that earned rave reviews from convention-goers, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said Obama was up late Monday night working on his own remarks because the “stakes are high in this campaign and the choice for voters couldn’t be starker.”
Obama, Schultz said, has spent the last two weeks working on the speech and plans to make the case that his “record of accomplishment over the last eight years” should show why the nation should “continue on this path and not regress but also why Secretary Clinton is uniquely qualified to make the decisions a commander in chief needs would have to make.”
The president also plans to reference the speech he made 12 years ago when endorsing then-Sen. John Kerry for president in Boston, his introduction to the national political stage.
He will talk about the path the country has taken since that time and the “grit, ingenuity and determination of the American people” to help recover from the brink of economic collapse. He’ll also talk about his role in presiding over the “longest stretch of job growth in our nation’s history and changing the way the world views the United States for the better,” Schultz said.
